Zoom

Overview

Zoom is an online video conferencing system. It features meeting and webinar capabilities, along with real-time messaging and content sharing. Compare Zoom and Google Hangouts Meet

Who can use Zoom?

The University of Minnesota has licenses for all current faculty, students, and staff to hold online meetings.
Students, faculty, and staff can host meetings for up to 300 people.
Faculty and staff can host webinars for up to 1,000 people.
A limited number of licenses are available to Faculty and staff to host webinars for up to 1,000 people.
Students, faculty, and staff who are part of the HCC (Health Care Component) will be assigned to a modified instance of Zoom, in order to preserve best practices around Protected Health Information.
Note: If you are part of the HCC, you will need to take a very brief training before you can access your Zoom account. Access this training by going to zoom.umn.edu and clicking Log In.

Highlights

An accessible interface
Automatic captioning
Breakout rooms
Recording capability
- Zoom cloud recordings are retained for 180 days. See Zoom: Recording Retention and Management to learn about longer-term recording retention.
Polls, collaborative screen annotation, chat, and more

Getting Started

Integration into Canvas

Request Status

Past phase: Technical Review

Past phase: Initial Review

Current phase: Integrated

Tool is integrated into Canvas

Available To

Systemwide

Common Use(s)

Information Not Available

Learn how to Host a Zoom Meeting within Canvas.

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Zoom@UMN

Intended Audience

Students

Instructors

Researchers

Staff & Departments

Health Sciences Affiliates

IT Staff and Partners

Cost

Zoom is funded by the University of Minnesota, at no extra charge to you.

Featured Resources

How-Tos

Zoom: Secure Your Zoom Meetings

Follow the recommendations below to keep your Zoom Meetings secure and free from disruption. For specific guidance about teaching online using Zoom, see Zoom: Teach Online Class Sessions.

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Self-Help Guides

Zoom: Teach, Meet, and Learn with Zoom

Zoom, an online video conferencing system, is now available to the UMN community! Compare Zoom to Google Hangouts

About this guide

This guide is for anyone who wants to use Zoom for basic teaching, meeting, and learning tasks. For...

A self-help guide for anyone who want to use Zoom for basic teaching, meeting, and learning tasks.

Self-Help Guides

Zoom: Set up, Support, and Present at Online Events

This self-help guide will help anyone who presents at, schedules, or supports online meetings and webinars through Zoom. To learn more about using Zoom for online office hours or smaller meetings, check out Teach, Meet, and Learn with Zoom.The ...

Good Practices

Zoom: Best Practices in a Meeting

This guide provides some tips to get the most out of your Zoom meeting experience.

Table of Contents
- Preparing for the Meeting (participants and host)
- Participating in the Meeting (...

A one-page guide to help you get the most out of Zoom meetings

How-Tos

Zoom: Teach Online Class Sessions

Synchronous class sessions, in which everyone logs in to a web conferencing system at a pre-scheduled time, are one way to create engagement and foster community in your fully online courses. In a synchronous session...

A guide for faculty and instructors hoping to create engagement through online class sessions

How-Tos

Zoom: Hold Online Office Hours

Zoom can change the way you teach and interact with learners, by giving you the ability to hold online office hours with learners anywhere in the world on a one-time or recurring basis.

Why hold online office...

Zoom allows you to schedule one-time or recurring online office hours with learners anywhere in the world.

How-Tos

Canvas: Host a Zoom Meeting within Canvas

The Zoom for Canvas Integration allows you to start and join Zoom meetings from within Canvas. This article is for UMN faculty and staff who would like to use Zoom together with Canvas.

Note: ...

The Zoom for Canvas Integration allows UMN faculty and staff to start and join Zoom meetings from within Canvas.

How-Tos

Zoom: Access to University Data

When entering into a contract with Zoom, the University's Office of Information Technology ensured full review of the contract terms and conditions and Zoom's privacy policy. Some amount of data collection is...

Learn about Zoom's restricted access to University data.

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