Zoom is Chico State’s video conferencing solution available to all students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for activating your Zoom account for Chico State. This is a one time only task for faculty, students and staff who want to host and record their own Zoom meetings.
There are also instructions for adding a profile picture and creating your own Personal Meeting room.
In this article:
- Access the Zoom integration from your Blackboard Learn course
- Schedule a Weekly, Live Zoom Class Meeting
- Determine how you want to set up your office hours
- Starting your Zoom meeting from Blackboard Learn
- Sharing Content
- Recording Your Meeting & Embedding the Recording into Blackboard Learn
Describes how to check for Zoom updates on the Zoom desktop client or mobile.
This article organizes all of the Zoom knowledge base articles by "big picture" process flow.
Instructions for downloading and installing Zoom, with references to Acttivating your Chico State Zoom account and signing in to your Chico State Zoom account
With the increased usage of Zoom in the past year, it is critical that every single faculty member, student and staff member understand how to verify that they are signed in to Zoom using single-sign on. This ensures features such as unlimited meeting times, recording and breakout rooms will work correctly.
Your frequently asked questions answered.
If Kaltura is having prolonged issues, you can share a direct link to the zoom recording from
http://www.csuchico.edu/zoom. Warning: the Zoom cloud recordings are only valid for 30 days.
After recording a Zoom Meeting to the cloud you can access, review and edit the full audio transcript through your CSU Chico Zoom Portal.
The meeting host can enable participants to choose their own breakout room. This helps make breakout rooms easier to manage.
Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host or co-host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please. The host or co-host can switch between sessions at any time. Although Zoom Support has good information on managing breakout rooms, we wanted to highlight a few limitations for you here.
Zoom has an automatic captioning feature which can be enabled through your Zoom Account. The feature allows for live transcriptions during meetings and the ability to save the meeting transcript as an editable, search-able document.
Tip: For most course-related Zoom meetings, it will be helpful to know the the meeting passcode in advance.
The following tasks can only be done during your live Zoom meeting:
- Allow participants to choose their own room (best practice in case something goes wrong)
- Open Pre-Assigned Breakout Rooms
- Recover Pre-Assigned Breakout Rooms
Music can set the mood and tone for your Zoom meeting. See how to share computer sound during screen share and a trick for focusing audience attention.
Process for enabling polling, creating and launching polling.
Enabling Pre-Assigned Breakout Rooms, Creating Pre-Assigned Rooms/Users for your Meeting, Import from CSV, Enabling Forced Authentication and teaching students SSO, Allow Participants to Choose Their Own Breakout Room, Recreate and Recover to Pre-Assigned Rooms, Troubleshooting
How to track participation / take attendance in a zoom meeting
You can schedule a Zoom meeting a variety of ways, including from the desktop client, Outlook, Google calendar etc.
This article links you directly to Zoom's helpful tutorials for scheduling meetings.
Faculty who want a single, Zoom meeting for all of their online office hours can create a recurring Zoom meeting and then copy/paste the link into a content folder in each Blackboard Learn course.
Contains instructions for starting a screen share, enabling annotation, annotating on a shared screen, annotating on a shared Zoom whiteboard, and the benefits of annotating on a shared Zoom whiteboard using a tablet.
Describes CSU Chico Zoom login options
Your Personal Meeting Room is a virtual meeting room permanently reserved for you that you can access with your Personal Meeting ID (PMI) or personal link, if applicable.
This article shows you how to view poll and attendance reports from within your Blackboard course using the Zoom integration tool.
Beginning April 20th 2020, waiting rooms are now enabled by default for all Zoom education accounts. Find out how to effectively manage your waiting settings, participants in your waiting room, etc.
This article describes the process for:
- Recording to the cloud (students must first enable cloud recording)
- Locating the cloud recording on the zoom portal (only valid for 30 days)
- Accessing recordings from Kaltura, Chico State's media server
- Embedding recordings into Blackboard