Zoom

Description

Zoom is a video conferencing tool that combines an easy-to-use interface with exceptional video quality, offering a seamless experience for collaboration across mobile devices, desktops, and conference rooms. Zoom features include screen sharing, recording, breakout rooms, chat, adaptive streaming, and more!

Use Zoom to meet using video, voice, and screen-sharing with colleagues across the campus or around the world. With Zoom, up to 300 participants can attend via phone, computer, mobile device, or video conferencing.

Advisory: Zoom meetings will require passcode or waiting room as of September 27, 2020. Click here to learn more.

Features/Benefits

• Join anywhere, on any device: Zoom syncs with your calendar system and delivers streamlined enterprise-grade video conferencing from desktop and mobile.
• Built-in collaboration tools: Multiple participants can share their screens simultaneously and co-annotate for a more interactive meeting.
• Meet securely: End-to-end encryption for all meetings, role-based user security, password protection, waiting rooms, and place attendee on hold. Review the Zoom meetings resource guide for best practices, including security settings.
• Recording and transcripts: Record your meetings locally or to the cloud, with searchable transcripts. Click here to learn how to automatically transcribe cloud recordings.
  
  • Note: by default, all Zoom recordings are password protected. If you'd like, you are able to change, set, or remove a recording password.
  • Attn: faculty – please review student privacy (FERPA) guidelines for recorded class sessions: Although synchronous meetings in Zoom can be recorded for future reference, session recordings may constitute protected educational records per FERPA. For more information, refer to Virtual and Other Classroom Recording and Student Privacy (FERPA).
• Streamlined calendaring: Support scheduling or starting meetings from Outlook, Gmail, or iCal.
• Team chat: Chat with groups, searchable history, integrated file sharing, and 10 year archive. Easily escalate into 1:1 or group calls.
• Integration with Blackboard: Zoom integrates with Blackboard, which allows for remote teaching and learning.
  • Learn how to use Zoom in Blackboard with this quick overview 
  • Review step-by-step instructional video tutorials.
  • Learn more about teaching through Zoom by reviewing Zoom for Education's Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions.
• Zoom privacy statement: Review Zoom's privacy policy to learn more about what data Zoom collects and how it is used.

Costs

• No fees are charged for this service.

Restrictions

• Students: All current students.
• Faculty/Staff: All faculty and staff except when used for telemedicine/direct patient care. A special license and implementation of Zoom is used for UHealth telemedicine visits and must be initiated through UChart. This adds an extra layer of security to standard Zoom processes and ensures privacy and regulatory compliance. For assistance using Zoom for telemedicine via UChart, please contact UHealth IT at (305) 243-5999 or help@med.miami.edu.

Get It Here

• Activate Your Account: Sign in to zoom.miami.edu using your CaneID and password.
• Download the Latest Zoom Desktop Client: zoom.us/download

Login

• zoom.miami.edu

Documentation

• Getting Started
  • FAQs
  • FAQs for Students
  • Get Started with Zoom at the U
  • Getting Stated with Zoom on Windows and Mac
  • Resource Guide for Zoom Meetings
  • Zoom for Higher Education
  • Zoom Help Center
  • Zoombombing resources
• Join or Schedule a Meeting
  • Join a Zoom meeting
  • Scheduling a Zoom meeting using Outlook
  • Scheduling a Zoom meeting using Outlook on the web
  • Scheduling a Zoom meeting using Zoom
  • Scheduling a Zoom meeting for someone else
  • Invite others to join your meeting in progress
  • Roles in a meeting
  • Assigning an alternative host
• Meeting Features and Settings
  • Enabling and adding a co-host
  • Managing cloud recordings
  • Managing local recordings
  • Meeting hosts controls and settings
  • Meeting settings and controls
  • Recording a meeting locally
  • Recording a meeting to the cloud
  • Sharing a whiteboard
  • Sharing your screen
• Mobile Devices
  • Zoom for Android
  • Zoom for iOS
• Other Resources
  • Automatically Transcribe Cloud Recordings
  • Training Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • UM Zoom Backgrounds
  • Virtual Backgrounds
• Teaching and Classes
  • Comprehensive Guide to Educating Through Zoom
  • Student Tips for Participating in Online Learning
  • Tips and Tricks for Teachers Educating on Zoom
  • Tips and Tricks for Administrators and Staff
  • Video Conferencing Tips and Suggestions for Faculty
  • Hardware Solutions to Upgrade the Online Learning Experience
• Webinars
  • Tips for Hosting Your Zoom Graduation (via Webinar)
  • Recommended Settings for a Zoom Webinar
  • Tip Sheet: Creating a Zoom Webinar
  • Tip Sheet: Running a Zoom Webinar
  • UMIT's Zoom Meeting and Webinar Service Request
  • Zoom Livestream Tips for Hosts
  • Zoom Webinar Tips for Panelists/Speakers

Training

• General
  • How To Zoom YouTube Playlist
  • Live Training Webinars
  • Recorded Zoom Training
  • Zoom 101: In Meeting Controls (Basic)
  • Zoom Video Tutorials
  • Zoom for Education Training
• Using Zoom in Blackboard
  • Overview: How to Use Zoom in Blackboard
  • Step-by-Step Video Tutorials: How to Use Zoom in Blackboard
• Webinars
  • Meeting and Webinar Best Practices and Resources
  • Webinar Sign Ups for Various Platform Trainings