Adding a Zoom Meeting to a Canvas Course

This guide will help teachers schedule Zoom meetings from within Canvas. This is the recommended way to schedule all class Zoom meetings.

Instructions for Scheduling a Meeting in Canvas

1. In your Canvas course, choose the "Zoom" option in the course menu. (If you do not see this option go to course settings > navigation, and enable Zoom as a menu option.)
   
   

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2. Once Zoom opens, choose to “schedule a new meeting” (you may be asked to authenticate)
   
   

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3. If you teach multiple sections of the same course, be sure to name your Zoom Meetings with the section name (D block, B block. etc.) so students can locate the correct recordings. By default, all zoom recordings for a course, including all sections, are stored together in the same course folder in Panopto. If you prefer to store each section’s recordings in a separate sub-folder, follow these instructions for Setting Up Folder Mapping for Zoom Cloud Recording.

4. Schedule your meetings

   1. Schedule the first meeting for the correct date and time and set the duration.

   2. Choose to make the meeting recurring. For most courses, you will choose to make the meetings occur weekly on the same day(s) each week.

   3. Choose an end date.
      
      

5. For courses that do not meet at regular daily times, such as residential courses that use zoom to meet on the block schedule, or for courses that meet every day and thus have a large number of Zoom meetings, we recommend scheduling one recurring meeting and setting the recurrence frequency to “No Fixed Time.”
   
   

Additional Zoom Meeting Settings

• Do not require registration

• We recommend using a required password or leaving the waiting room enabled to help prevent “zoom bombing”

• You may enable “join before host” if you would like to allow students time to conference together prior to your arrival

• We recommend turning on “Mute participant upon entry”

• We do not recommend setting meetings to record automatically (we recommend using a sticky note or similar method to remind yourself to start recording manually). If you choose to record automatically, it often results in many short unintentional recordings any time a student clicks the meeting link.

Starting each Zoom Meeting

Each time you start your meeting, use the "Zoom" link in your Canvas course and then choose to start the meeting. Please ensure you are logged in to zoom with your NCSSM account. (If you are not logged in, you will not be able to use polls, breakout rooms, or cloud recording capabilities.) If you are not logged in, you can log in and claim host privileges.

Optional Video Tutorial

• Scheduling a Zoom Meeting in Canvas Video Tutorial

Additional Help

• Recording Zoom Meetings with Cloud Recording