Schedule a Zoom Meeting in Your Canvas Course

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

Getting Started

1. Go to your Canvas course
2. Click Zoom from your course navigation
   • Add Zoom to Your Canvas Course navigation if it is not part of 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.

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• 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

• See: Using Canvas App with Zoom as a Meeting Host