Schedule a Zoom Meeting in Your Canvas Course

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For Faculty: How to schedule a Zoom Meeting in your Canvas course.
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Getting Started

  1. Go to your Canvas course
  2. Click Zoom from your course navigation
  3. In Canvas, click Schedule a New Meeting
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Enter your meeting settings

  • Topic: the title of your meeting
  • When: date and time of the meeting
  • Duration: total amount of time the meeting will run for (you can enter a meeting early)
  • Recurring meeting: meetings that will be used more than once in the course (e.g., weekly discussion meetings)
  • Video Host/Participant: select whether you'd like your/your participants' video to be automatically turned on or off
    • recommend setting this to off so as not to surprise participants entering the meeting

Meeting Options

  • Mute participants upon entry
  • Do not check Use Personal Meeting ID
    • Using a Personal Meeting ID will cause problems when Zoom cloud recording are imported into Panopto
  • If you'd like recordings of the meeting, select "Record the meeting automatically" and save the recording in the cloud
  • Click Save. You will now see the meeting appear under 'Upcoming Meetings'
  • Alternative Hosts: enter the email address of your teaching partner or TA if you'd like them to be able to start the meeting without you
    • Note: originally this setting auto-populated all course faculty as alternate hosts. This was turned off in Summer 2020 to provide more flexibility around who could be assigned as an alternate host.

Advanced Options

  • Alternative Hosts: enter the email address of your teaching partner or TA if you'd like them to be able to start the meeting without you
    • Users need a Zoom Pro license to be added as an alt host
    • Note: originally this setting auto-populated all course faculty as alternate hosts. This was turned off in Summer 2020 to provide more flexibility around who could be assigned as an alternate host.

Tracking Field

  • Do not change the value for the panopto_folder_context setting
  • It defaults to the ID number for the Canvas course.
  • If it is changed the the video will not be imported into Panopto properly
  • The video will be imported into the Meeting Recordings folder of the meeting host

Additional Resources

Notes

  • Sometimes Firefox and Safari do not display the Zoom page within Canvas correctly.
  • If you are using either of those browsers and things are not displaying correclty, try Chrome or Edge.