You can use Zoom to host remote class sessions, hold virtual office hours, and record in-class meetings. In these meetings Zoom allows you to share your presentations and screen with your students, break out your class into smaller groups, and take polls. Read this guide to learn about these features and more.

Setting up a Zoom meeting in Canvas

<aside> ❗ Please Note: If you have not done so yet, before following the steps below to set up Zoom in Canvas, go to lbc.zoom.us and log in with your LBC email and password to activate your LBC Zoom account. Then follow the steps below.

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Any LBC | Capital faculty member can access and manage Zoom from their Canvas course sites. The best way to schedule a Zoom meeting for your class is directly from within your Canvas course. Please watch the video below to learn more about scheduling and the different settings available to you.

https://vimeo.com/440808634

To review, if you want to enable and schedule a Zoom meeting in your Canvas course site:

1. Add Zoom to your course's navigation menu.
2. Click the blue Schedule a New Meeting button.
3. Set up the meeting settings and click Save.

For a fuller step by step breakdown of this and our video above please see our guide How to enable and set up Zoom in Canvas.

Using Zoom and starting your meeting

Zoom has several meeting tools you should be familiar with if you are going to use it to hold meetings with your students. To get started with using Zoom, we recommend these resources:

• How do I use the meeting controls in Zoom?
• How do I screen share & annotate in Zoom?
• How do I manage breakout rooms in Zoom?
• How do I use polling in a Zoom meeting?
• How do record my Zoom meeting to the cloud?

When you are ready to start the meeting, from your Zoom portal in Canvas click the Start button (your students can do the same thing to start their meeting). To learn more, see our student guide: How do I join my class Zoom meeting in Canvas?.

Sharing recordings with students