Zoom Meetings

Zoom has become established as a leading provider of online meetings and is widely used in industry and education throughout the world. It is offered to all University Staff and Students as a potential alternative to the University’s default video conferencing tool (MS Teams). Zoom meetings can be scheduled and managed via; herts-ac-uk.zoom.us, through a desktop application (downloadable via the URL above) and on your modules through integration with Canvas/Studynet.

Zoom was initially purchased by the University as a solution to some of the challenges to online learning and teaching that were present during the COVID pandemic.

Setting up Zoom meetings

This section covers how to set up Zoom meetings for meetings for all students on a module, groups of students on a module and how to add Zoom sessions to the units areas of your module.

Publishing Zoom recordings and adding captions

This section covers how to publish your Zoom recoding on you module once it has been automatically uploaded to Panopto. Also covers how to make sure your recording is accessible using captions

Zoom authentication settings

This section covers the authentication settings in Zoom and how to prevent anonymous users from joining your sessions.

Training and Support

• The Technology Enhanced Learning team offer training sessions throughout the year - Book Training
• Support queries may be sent to TELsupport@herts.ac.uk