Zoom is primarily used for teaching.
For meetings, seminars and webinars
For recordings
Using Zoom for teaching
Setting up a Zoom meeting
Browser
Choose Meetings and then Schedule a new meeting to set up a new meeting.
Desktop version
Choose Schedule to set up a new meeting.
Meeting options
Set your meeting's details and password (we recommend doing this for security reasons).
You can choose to have the participants' video off by default to stop the Zoom screen becoming too cluttered.
Other options that you might want to set are:
- Allow participants to join the session before the host enters the room
- Mute participants when they join the meeting
- Add additional hosts by entering their email – this must be a University of Glasgow email address
Save your settings.
Zoom will generate a joining URL for people to access the meeting.
Add a Zoom meeting to Moodle (staff)
Access the Zoom Meeting plug-in for Moodle:
- Log-in to the desired Moodle course
- Turn on Edit mode then Add an activity or resource
- Search for and then select the Zoom Meeting plug-in
- Name your Zoom activity and write a brief description (Click show more to access these fields)
- Copy and paste the URL for your Zoom meeting
- Expand the additional settings to make further changes such as restricting access to the Zoom link or to allow activity completion for the students
- Save and return to course
Starting a Zoom meeting
In the desktop, mobile app or browser version of Zoom, choose Meetings to see a list of all your scheduled meetings.
To join/start your meeting, choose Start.
You will then be prompted to open the Zoom application.
Zoom toolbar
During a meeting when you access the main Zoom desktop, you will notice a toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
- Mute: allows you to mute your own microphone
- Stop Video: allows you to stop your video feed
- Security: allows the host to lock the meeting, allow participants to share their screen, chat and unmute themselves
- Participants: allows you to mute all participants
- Chat: allows text chat
- Share: allows the host to share their computer desktop and any application that they have open
- Record/Stop recording: allows you to control the recording of the session
- Live Transcript: allows you to turn live automated captioning on
- Breakout Rooms: allows the creation and management of breakout rooms
- The End Meeting option will close the meeting and log all users out
Breakout rooms
To create breakout rooms, choose Breakout rooms from the toolbar. Choose:
- How many rooms you want
- To manually create the rooms
Once you have created these rooms, you can manually assign users to them.
To start breakout rooms, choose the Breakout rooms icon, and this time you will see a button to start the breakout rooms. As a host you can swap between rooms.
Attendance lists
Access a list of who has attended your class through Zoom.
- Log in to Zoom
- Choose Reports on the left-hand menu, and then Usage
- Check the date range includes the date of the meeting you want. Meeting reports are available for the last 12 months.
- The number of participants is shown in a column next to each meeting. Select that number to see the list of participants.
- Select 'Export with meeting data' and then choose Export to export this information to an Excel file