NOTE: Some of these settings may not be adjustable prior to starting the meeting

• • • Avoid sharing links to Zoom meetings on social media or public websites.

    • Avoid using your Personal Meeting ID (PMI) to host public events

    • Users signed in to UT Zoom accounts cannot be placed in a waiting room and will enter Zoom meetings directly.

    • Do not enable “Join before host”.
    • Make sure "host only" is the setting in share screen.
    • Turn off file transfers so they cannot upload images/documents to the chat
    • Set things up to prevent removed participants from rejoining a meeting (disable "Allow Removed Participants to Rejoin”)
    • Another idea is to make a trusted person a co-host which will allow them to act as a moderator. You can also lock a meeting which prevents anyone from joining, however, this will mean if a student is knocked off the call for some reason, they will not be able to get back in.

Importing Zoom recordings from Desktop Client to Canvas Zoom integration

If a Zoom lecture is recorded and saved to the cloud outside of the Canvas integration (via Zoom Desktop client), then the recording will need to be imported from the cloud to the Canvas Zoom integration. Once imported, it can be published for students to view.

One of the Tier 2 grad students made a handy walk-through on importing Zoom recordings to Canvas: 

https://laits.slack.com/archives/C010UMXH9LN/p1586285163319400?thread_ts=1586284804.319300&cid=C010UMXH9LN 

Instructors report that their students can’t view Zoom recordings in Canvas.

Refer users to this guide: Record a Lecture with Zoom#ImportingYourLecturesfromZoomtoCanvas

Editing Zoom Recordings

Users can specify the start time and the end time for the recording from the “Recordings” page of the Zoom Web Portal.

More information here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115003001383-Cloud-Recording-Playback Advanced editing should be done with Panopto.

• If the user requires assistance with this escalate to #onlinecourse_batphone

Migrating Zoom Accounts from a Free or other Zoom Pro license

Some colleges, such as School of Education, Dell Medical School, College of Communication, and School of Information, have had pre-existing contracts with Zoom. Additionally, there are several thousand individuals with free licenses using University of Texas at Austin email addresses.

ITS is working with Zoom to determine a plan and schedule to migrate those accounts into the UT site license account. 

Direct to zoom@utexas.edu OR assign to: ITS-Systems-Zoom.

Response Template:

• We are aware that there are individuals with existing / free licenses using University of Texas at Austin email addresses.
• However, at this time these Zoom accounts cannot be linked.
• We'd suggest you log out of your previous account and use your new UT account in order to access Zoom and all of its functionality the free UT instance provides.
• You can access your UT Zoom account here: https://utexas.zoom.us/

Request for Airplay with Zoom

Airplay is not supported at this time, they're looking into it (but no ETA so no promises).

Response Template:

At this time we're still looking into all the Zoom tools and features and Airplay is not supported. We have no ETA on when these extra features/integration may be added. We apologize for the inconvenience! Please stay tuned on our website for any updates on tools: https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/instructional-continuity

Request for Zoom Outlook integration

The Zoom plugin for Outlook is working now. Moving meetings in Outlook will adjust the Zoom meeting.

Request to pre-assign student groups in breakout room for recurring Zoom meetings

• Check that breakout rooms are enabled for your specific class (done through Canvas)

• From utexas.zoom.us, edit the meeting to allow preassigned breakout rooms

• Upload a csv file with your students’ Zoom UT EID email addresses. Verify that the email addresses are in the format <EID>@eid.utexas.edu. For example, if the student’s EID is bevo, enter bevo@eid.utexas.edu.
  • https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360032752671-Pre-assigning-participants-to-breakout-rooms
    This Zoom article covers pre-assigning attendees to breakout rooms and contains a sample csv file. Download and edit the file provided. Do not add any columns. Save without changing the file type.

McCombs Tech Wiki Article - Customer facing link can be shared w/ users

Lectures Online

The Lectures Online system records the in-class presentation so students can review the material at a later time.

It is available in a limited number of classrooms on campus. https://sites.la.utexas.edu/lecturesonline/instructors/which-classrooms-have-it/

Questions about using lectures online or instructors looking for old Lectures Online recordings should be routed to: lecturesonline@la.utexas.edu.

Instructors should first reach out to the Registrar to reserve a room equipped with Lectures Online, then direct them to the lectures online site.

Reserving the room is a prerequisite.

https://sites.la.utexas.edu/lecturesonline/

Privacy concerns for recorded Lectures in Zoom

For instructors worried about non-students (i.e. for-profit vendors, media, etc) accessing recorded lectures. 

There isn't a technical method to restrict potential reposting of course video, but rather it will be addressed by student conduct policies.

Response Template: 

I see you have a few questions related to Zoom. Specific guidance on this issue will be forthcoming over the next several days, and will be updated to the Instructional Continuity website found here: https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/instructional-continuity. I'd suggest for now you stay tuned there for more information! 

UT Zoom Waiting Room Default Permissions

Refer her for breakdown: https://utexas.instructure.com/courses/633028/pages/zoom-waiting-room

As a workaround, hosts can hold a meeting in a breakout room and use the main meeting room as a waiting room.

Webinars with Zoom

To host a webinar via Zoom the user will need a specific add-on to their UT Zoom account.

Please have the user fill out this form:

• https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=peLXMdi9TkGel76pmOvf4TJdcA-z_HNCrRQD-2wNo9BUOExNU01TUzdMQUlZNEpKUDJZSzk0N0pMUC4u

UT has a limited number of Webinar add-on licenses available.

These are granted temporarily (for a few days) and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Max Participants in Webinars: Zoom webinar license tiers go up to 10,000 participants. A department can purchase an annual license for up to this many.  As far as the temporary licenses we have, the largest one is 3,000 seats. For these, future instructional use would be an academic class over 300 or a temporary instructional event.