Basics of Zoom
For a report of class attendance, there is no need to require registration. To see a report listing students who attended and how long they stayed logged in to your sessions, use these instructions:
- Access your Bb course site
- Click your Zoom link and navigate to your Upcoming Meetings list
- Click the Previous Meetings tab
- Click the Reports link to the right of the Meeting ID column
- View the Name and Duration columns for student details
- Export the file to MS Excel if desired
- Best Practices for Student Engagement In the Virtual Classroom
Perhaps the most important lesson is to remember that you can’t replicate live instruction on Zoom. Web conferencing is a different platform with different capabilities, so your old lesson plans might need a reboot to keep students engaged. Don’t get frustrated if old methods don’t work – and reach out to the CCAC Virtual Campus for help when you’re stuck.
- Zoom: Setting a Virtual Background
This document describes how to set/change your Zoom Virtual Background. Please note, the Virtual Background can be changed in a meeting (easiest method) or by editing your personal Zoom settings by going to https://ccac.zoom.us
Polls in Zoom
- Zoom: Polls for Your Bb Remote Class
This document provides details for:
- Creating Polls in advance of your session
- Launching Polls during your session
- Enabling Polling for all your class sessions
- Zoom Polls: 6 Interactive Learning Polls That Increase Student Engagement
Check out these pre-designed Polls you can use within your courses. Use polls if you’re instructing online and want to make your classroom interactive.
Waiting Room in Zoom
Hosts can choose to enable the Waiting Room during a live session or in advance to apply to all future meetings. There are also additional Waiting Room options for customizing how your Waiting Room functions.
Enable Waiting Room During a Session
- Within Bb, start your class session
- Click Security in the Zoom menu at any time
- Select Enable Waiting Room
- An on-screen pop-up message will alert you when a student is waiting to be admitted to the session - Click Admit
- An on-screen pop-up message will alert you when a student is waiting to be admitted to the session - Click Admit
Enable Waiting Room for All Future Sessions
- Log in to your Zoom Web Portal at https://ccac.zoom.us/
- On the left-side menu, click Settings
- To the right of Waiting Room, click toggle button icon to enable Waiting Room
- See Waiting Room Options and click Edit Options to explore and enable options as desired
- Click Customize Waiting Room to explore and enable more options as needed
- Click Continue to confirm and save changes See additional details for this topic on the Zoom support page.
- Zoom: How to Use Waiting Rooms
The Waiting Room feature allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting. As the meeting host, you can admit attendees one by one, or hold all attendees in the Waiting Room and admit them all at once. You can send all participants to the Waiting Room when joining your meeting. As the host, you can also choose to automatically move participants to the Waiting Room while a meeting is in progress if you lose connection from the meeting.
Scheduling in Zoom
- Zoom: Scheduling Lectures in Bb course sites (Video)
This video (5 mins.) provides instructions for setting up recurring class lectures for your course within Bb.
- Zoom: Scheduling Classes & Office Hours in Bb and Checking Attendance
These instructions describe how to setup single or recurring class lectures/meetings and/or office hours for your course within Bb. The process is the same for each option. When scheduling a session, just change the name of the session as needed (e.g. “Lectures Monday-Wednesday 9am” or “Office Hours – Tuesday 2pm”).
Sharing in Zoom
- Zoom: Enable Student Screen SharingEnable student screen sharing to make student individual and group presentations possible within your Zoom session.
- Zoom: Spotlighting a Student's Video
Spotlight video puts up to 9 participants as the primary active speakers for all participants, and participants will only see these speakers. This feature is often used to spotlight a keynote speaker.
It is not necessary for you to create a link in your Bb site for recordings and it is not necessary to email recording links to students. Students can automatically find the link for your recordings in your Bb site. Students should:
- Click the Zoom link in your instructor’s Bb site
- Within the instructor’s list of Zoom meetings, click the tab for Cloud Recordings
- Click the event name (Topic link in blue text) for the date/session that you want to view
- Click the Recording icon for the date you want to review (there may be several including Audio or Transcript only)
- Login with CCAC username and password if necessary
- Click the play icon to watch the video
These instructions are available for students within each Bb site when they access the Zoom link: "Students: Using Zoom and Viewing class recordings"