The Zoom activity within Moodle ISU acts like a meeting hub for your course; Instructors can schedule meetings for single events, specific occurrences, or meetings with no fixed time.
This Guide Will Help You to:
Schedule a Meeting
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In your Moodle course, Click on the Zoom activity
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In the top right corner, click Schedule a New Meeting
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Review the following settings:
Topic
- Topic - Enter a topic or name for your meeting. The default will be the name of course as listed in Moodle.
- Description - Enter in an optional meeting description.
Calendar information
- When - Select a date and time for your meeting. You can manually enter any time and press enter to select it. For example, you can enter 15 in the minutes field to schedule a time with a 15-minute increment.
- Duration - Choose the approximate duration of the meeting. This is only for scheduling purposes. The meeting will not end after this length of time.
- Time Zone - By default, Zoom will use the time zone set in Moodle.
- Recurring meeting - Check if you would like a recurring meeting (the meeting ID will remain the same for each session). This will open up additional recurrence options.
- Recurrence - Select how often you need the meeting to recur: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or No Fixed Time. Meetings can recur up to 50 times, so if you need more than 50 recurrences, use the No Fixed Time option.
- The other recurrence options will depend on how often the meeting recurs. You can configure the meeting to end after a set amount of occurrences or have the recurring meeting end on a specific date.
Registration
Not recommended for regular class meetings using Zoom. Here is more information on Setting up registration for a meeting.
Security
- Passcode - Enter a meeting passcode. Joining participants will be required to input this before joining your scheduled meeting.
- Note: The meeting passcode must meet complexity requirements set by your admin.
- Waiting Room - Enable Waiting Room for the meeting.
- Require authentication to join - Restrict access to the meeting so that only signed-in users can join.
Meeting Options
- Video
- Host - Choose if you would like the host's video on or off when joining the meeting. Even if you choose off, the host will have the option to start their video.
- Participants - Choose if you would like the participants' videos on or off when joining the meeting. Even if you choose off, the participants will have the option to start their video.
- Audio - Allow users to call in using Telephone only, Computer Audio only, or Both.
- Allow participants to join before start time - Allow participants to join the meeting without you or before you join.
- Mute participants on entry - If join before host is not enabled, mute participants as they join the meeting. Participants can unmute themselves after joining the meeting.
- Use Personal Meeting ID (PMI) - If enabled rather than generating a random meeting id, the meeting will use your PMI. Use this feature sparingly.
- Automatically record meeting - Select if you want to record On the local computer or In the cloud.
Alternative Host
- Alternative hosts - Enter the email address of another user who has an ISU licensed account, on your account to allow them to start the meeting in your absence.
Save Options
- Save - Creates meeting session(s)
- Cancel - Does not create meeting session(s)
Seek Further Assistance
For additional assistance please contact, ITRC at (208) 282 5880 or itrc@isu.edu.
For more information please visit, Zoom Help Center: Scheduling Meetings.
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