Zoom

Zoom is a digital tool for online teaching and meetings. It is also a great online tool for you to meet and collaborate with your classmates. As a student, you can both participate and host a meeting. This is a guide to the most common features of Zoom. Log into Zoom using your UMU ID.

Instructions

Create an account and log in

Log into Zoom by following these steps:

Go to http://zoom.umu.se/.
Choose "Sign in with SSO" and login with your UMU ID.

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Download and install Zoom on Windows.

Download and install Zoom on Mac OS.

Join a meeting

Click the link you received in the invitation. The invitation should also state who is hosting the meeting and time of the meeting.

If it is your first time joining a Zoom meeting, see the instructions for logging in under Create an account and log in.

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Joining a Zoom meeting.

Set up a new meeting

You can set up an instant meeting, a scheduled meeting or a recurring meeting both via the Zoom software you have downloaded onto your computer or by logging into zoom.umu.se. Go to "My account" and "Meetings".

If you sign in with your UMU ID, you can host meetings that are longer than 40 minutes.

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Schedule a meeting.

Create a recurring meeting.

Set up an instant meeting.

Invite participants

You can invite participants via a link or directly from your Zoom room. The meeting link can be sent, for instance, by email or be published in a learning platform.

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How to invite participants.

Learn to navigate a Zoom meeting

Once you have joined a Zoom meeting you can adjust your audio and video settings, chat, share files and links, share your screen, etc.

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Audio and video settings for a Zoom meeting.

Chat functionality.

Sending files through the chat.

Record my meeting and publish the recording

You can record a meeting, save it to your computer and upload it to your learning platform via UMU Play. Please remember to inform the other meeting participants that you will be recording and how you intend to use the recording.

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Record a Zoom meeting.

Manage my participants

As a host (which is most often the person who set up the meeting) or a co-host, you have access to more controls than regular participants. You can, for instance, give someone the right to speak if they raise their hand.

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Manage participants in Zoom.

Create groups (so-called breakout rooms)

You can divide your participants into groups during an ongoing meeting, for instance for discussions in beehives.

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Creating and managing "breakout rooms".

Show a whiteboard

You can share a whiteboard using "Share screen” in order to draw or sketch something together with your participants.

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Using the whiteboard to make notes.

Create interactivity through a poll

Zoom has a built-in polling feature. If you cannot find this in your meeting, you may need to activate the function under ”Meeting settings”.