Zoom Meeting Options

Refer to the settings below to ensure proper security and functionality is available for your Zoom meetings.

• Topic: use as descriptive a title as possible (ex. ZOOM101-001 - Intro to Zoom)
• When: set as the first day of class (January 11, 20201 for Winter term) @ your classes start time
• Duration: set as the closest 15 minute increment to your class length
• Recurring Meeting:
  • Checked for regular class meetings
    • Recurrence: Weekly
    • Repeat every: 1 week
    • Occurs on: set as class days
    • End Date: set as the end of finals week (March 20, 2021 for Winter term)
  • Unchecked for stand alone meetings
• Registration:
  • Unchecked for regular class meetings
  • Checked for standalone events not utilizing the LeBow Events System for registration
• Security:
  • Passcode: unchecked
  • Waiting Room: checked
• Video:
  • Host: on
  • Participant: on
• Audio: Both
• Meeting Options
  • Enable join before host: unchecked
  • Mute participants upon entry: checked
  • Automatically record meeting: checked
    • In the cloud

Zoom Settings

To access your Zoom settings, login at https://drexel.zoom.us and select Settings from the menu on the left.

Meeting tab

Security

• Waiting Room: Enabled (blue)
• Waiting Room Options:
  • Users not in your account will go in the waiting room
  • Hosts and co-host only can admit participants from the waiting room
• Embed passcode in invite link for one-click join: Disabled (gray)

In Meeting (Basic)

• Auto saving chats: Enabled (blue)
• Whiteboard:
  • Checked - Allow saving of whiteboard content
  • Checked - Auto save whiteboard content when sharing is stopped
• Allow removed participants to rejoin:
  • Disabled (gray) - default setting
  • Enabled (blue) - only if a student was removed from a previous session, but should be allowed to rejoin future sessions. Should be disabled immediately after.

In Meeting (Advanced)

• Breakout Room:
  • Checked - Allow host to assign participants to breakout rooms when scheduling

Recording tab

• Checked - Record active speaker with shared screen
• Checked - Record gallery view with shared screen
• Checked - Record active speaker, gallery view and shared screen separately
  • Checked - Active speaker
  • Checked - Gallery view
  • Checked - Shared screen
• Checked - Save chat messages from the meeting/webinar
• Checked - Audio transcript