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
- Checked for regular class 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