Zoom is a video and web conferencing service available to students, faculty, and staff. It may be used to enhance instruction, host online meetings, and fulfill a variety of other uses.
Important Notice
The privacy and security of our community is our top priority. To prevent malicious people from "spamming" meetings and classes:
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Participants will be placed on hold until the Instructor or "Host" enters the room.
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Students, faculty, and staff signed into the Zoom application outlined in the article "Signing into Zoom with PCCC Credentials" will be admitted to the class or meeting when the instructor or "Host" arrives. Students, faculty and Staff joining a Zoom Meeting from a zoom account not using the sign in method for PCCC will be considered “guests” and must be admitted by the Host into the meeting. Guests are always sent to a waiting room until admitted by the "host".
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Install Zoom
Zoom comes pre-installed on PCCC employee computers. To install Zoom on your personal computer or mobile devices, please visit https://zoom.us/download and follow the instructions.
Security and Safety tips
It is important that we work together to ensure Zoom meeting spaces are secure and safe. Please read the PCCC Zoom Meeting Security & Safety Tips article before joining or hosting at meeting as a PCCC user.
Check to make sure your Signed in
Before joining or hosting a meeting, please ensure you are signed in to Zoom using your PCCC credentials. If you need assistance, follow the steps in this article:
Check to make sure your Signed in before joining or hosting a meeting
Joining a Meeting as a participant
You may join a meeting as a participant from within a Blackboard course (for students and faculty) or from a link in a Zoom meeting invitation for non academic use.
Scheduling a Zoom Class Meeting in Blackboard
Guidance for best practices in creating and scheduling Class meetings for your Blackboard class.
The best way to reduce issues when joining a Zoom meeting for a remote or concurrent class is to schedule the Zoom meeting inside Blackboard. Faculty and students will be recognized as authorized PCCC participants when they connect to Zoom from inside their Blackboard course. As a bonus IT support will be better able to address technical issues, if they arise.
Instructions
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Login to Blackboard and go to your course.
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From the Details & Actions menu on the right hand side, scroll down to Books & Tools, and click on “View course & institution tools.”
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Scroll down and click the + sign next to Zoom Webinar. This will add the link to your course.
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Optionally, you may wish to edit this link and call it “Join Live Webinar,” which has been our standard nomenclature.
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Click on the “Join Live Webinar” or “Zoom Webinar” link.
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Click “Schedule a New Meeting”.
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It’s recommended that you add the days and times that the class meets to the meeting title in the Topic. For example College Success 21Fall Tues & Thurs at 10:10am.
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Check the “Recurring Meeting” option in the Time Zone section. And change Daily Recurrence to “No Fixed Time”. By choosing “No Fixed Time” only one meeting will appear for the entire semester. And the Zoom meeting room will be available for meetings with students in your class anytime you start the meeting.
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Select other options as desired and “Save” the meeting.
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Email the sample directions below to your class.
Video: Add Join Live Webinar for Zoom
Sample Directions to Email to Students
Our class will meet on Zoom. The easiest and best way to join our class is through Blackboard.
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Login to the My PCCC portal.
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Open Blackboard.
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Select our course.
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Select the Join Live Webinar link within the course.
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Click the Join button for the Zoom meeting.
Joining in this manner will identify you as a PCCC student. Wait until I let everyone in from the waiting room.
If you need technical assistance with Zoom please refer to Getting started with Zoom
Zoom Class Meetings
Watch the video tutorial in the Faculty Resource Center to learn step by step “How to add Join Live Webinar (Zoom Meeting) to a Blackboard Course”.
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