Zoom Best Practices / Resources

your account

As a licensed user with your University Zoom account, you have access to a wide variety of features including:

• The ability to Customize your Personal Meeting ID
• Record to the Zoom Cloud
• Be an alternative host
• Assign others to schedule on your behalf
• Customize your personal link / personal meeting ID

You can visit the Zoom Website anytime here to customize your account settings (including your picture!):
http://www.zoom.us

Make sure to always sign in with Google in order to gain full access to your University account:

Upon signing in, the profile and meetings pages will allow you to customize your Zoom experience on your university account:

It is recommended to visit your Zoom account profile on their website at least once at the start of every semester to update your details and review your meeting settings.

 

when in a meeting

Unlike passively watching a webinar or lecture, when joining a meeting in Zoom you have a variety of interactive tools at your disposal to customize your viewing experience. 

The University advises some of these best practices to make the most of your Zoom meetings:

• Before clicking any meeting links, make sure you are logged into your licensed University account by loading the Zoom Application directly from your machine (start menu on Windows, Finder/Applications on a Mac):

• Use the audio test feature in your Zoom application settings to make sure that you've selected the proper inputs and outputs:

• Keep your microphone muted until you're ready to talk. 
• Preview your own video to be aware of your surroundings in a private meeting (or in settings) before joining a virtual class
• Wear headphones, especially when using a laptop. This will prevent others in the meeting from hearing an echo of themselves coming out of your speakers and going back into your microphone (keeping your microphone muted helps this also)
• If you experience lag: (1) close all other open applications, (2) mute your video, (3) disconnect/reconnect to your wifi/ethernet, (4) restart your computer
• Customize your viewing with Speaker View / Gallery View in the top right corner. If you want to focus on the Professor, use speaker view. If you're discussing in class with your peers, use gallery view. (See this resource on view customization options.)