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.
Instructors: you can add a Zoom link to your Blackboard Learn course using the Blackboard / Zoom integration.
This is a convenient way to support virtual class meetings, etc. The link is only valid for the current semester.
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.
Allowing Participants to choose their own breakout room is a great way to help participants easily maneuver in and out of breakout rooms. This option is available after Breakout Rooms are created during the meeting.
The meeting host can enable participants to choose their own breakout room. This helps make breakout rooms easier to manage.
Tip: For most course-related Zoom meetings, it will be helpful to know the the meeting passcode in advance.
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.
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