Zoom

The Kern High School District now supports Zoom!

Teachers, counselors, administrators, students, and everyone else involved in our district can now use the Zoom Conferencing app! This powerful conferencing app has highly desired features, such as: Grid View, Rooms, Digital Whiteboards, Virtual Backgrounds, Canvas LMS Integration, Synergy SIS Integration and so much more!

Use the following content to help you get set up and get the most out of this powerful application for distance learning.

Logging into Zoom

It is essential to make sure that we all take the proper precautions when securing a Zoom classroom. Account settings can really help with ensuring a secure virtual classroom experience for you and your students.

With the need for more security, the Kern High School District default settings will have “only authenticated users can join meetings” defaulted to “On” in the settings, meaning students will need to log in through their Single Sign On (SSO) settings. This setting should only be switched off if you are hosting a meeting that is outside of our domain

Because of this measure, students will have to sign on in a specific way. This video goes over that process, and students should be encouraged to do this every morning before starting classes. The side benefit here is that this process is actually easier than what students are likely doing.

Student Login Startup Process in 8 steps

  1. Go to "Office.com"

  2. Sign in using your Kern High SSO credentials

    • Email: six-digitUID@kernhigh.org

    • Password: (You create this when you make your account)

  3. Using the search bar in Office.com, type in "Zoom"

  4. Click the Zoom app listing.

    • This will open up the Zoom app in a new tab.

    • Keep this tab open while you’re online.

  5. Go back to the Office tab

  6. Using the search bar in Office.com, type in “Canvas”

    • This will open up the Canvas app in a new tab.

  7. Click the “+” button at the top of the screen to create a new tab.

  8. On that new tab, go to mail.google.com to access your gmail account.

Teachers Login Startup Process or Logging into Zoom

Do the same steps as Students, or

  1. Type Zoom.us in the URL

  2. Click Sign In (in the top right corner)

  3. Scroll down and click on the Sign In with SSO button

  4. Enter the domain: kernhigh-org and press continue


Teachers: The most important setting to turn on to mitigate improper logins is "Authenticated Users Only"

In your Zoom.com settings for “Only authenticated users” if you do not see the “Meeting Authentication Option” saying “Azure Sign-in (default)”, you will have to click the blue reset button on the right of the setting.

All NEW meetings will have "authenticated users" turned on... any pre-existing meetings will have to have their specific settings changed by finding the meeting, going to "Edit Meeting" and checking the box next to "only authenticated users can join"

Recommended Zoom Settings

Zoom is a powerful application for digital conferencing, but is not designed with minors in mind, at least not by default. In order to properly set up Zoom for the best security, you'll want to change some settings in Zoom.

This video covers a few of the most important settings, and below you'll find instructions and links to Zoom resources for those settings.

Waiting Room:

Meeting hosts can customize Waiting Room settings for additional control, and you can even personalize the message people see when they hit the Waiting Room so they know they’re in the right spot.

Waiting Rooms settings in your Zoom account:

  1. Sign in to your account in the Zoom Web Portal and access the Settings tab.

  2. Click on the In Meeting (Advanced) option.

  3. Search or scroll to find the Waiting Room option.

  4. Toggle the button next to the Waiting Room to enable this feature.

  5. After enabling the Waiting Room feature, you can choose to send all participants to the Waiting Room when they join or to send only guest participants (external accounts) to the Waiting Room. You can also allow other internal participants to admit guests from the Waiting Room if the host is not yet in the meeting.

Safety Settings to Help Manage the Class

Manage your participants

Allow only signed-in users to join: If someone tries to join your event and isn’t logged into Zoom with the email they were invited through, they will receive this message:

Authorized Attendees (default setting):

This is useful if you want to control your guest list and invite only those you want at your event — other students at your school or colleagues, for example.

This is useful if you want to control your guest list and invite only those you want at your event — other students at your school or colleagues, for example.

  • Remove unwanted or disruptive participants: From that Participants menu, you can mouse over a participant’s name, and several options will appear, including Remove. Click that to kick someone out of the meeting.

  • Do not allow removed participants to rejoin: (Default setting Off, meaning cannot rejoin) When you do remove someone, they can’t rejoin the meeting. But you can toggle your settings to allow removed participants to rejoin, in case you boot the wrong person.

  • Push them to the Meeting Room: You can place participants back into the waiting room. Simply click on their video, or "more" next to their name on the participants list, and select "Put in Meeting Room." You can then use Chat to communicate with them and explain why they were placed there.

  • Put ‘em on hold: (This feature only works if there is NOT a waiting room in use) You can put everyone else on hold, and the attendees’ video and audio connections will be disabled momentarily. Click on someone’s video thumbnail and select Start Attendee On Hold to activate this feature. Click Take Off Hold in the Participants list when you’re ready to have them back.

  • Manage screen sharing: To prevent participants from screen sharing during a call, using the host controls at the bottom. Under “Who can share?” choose “Only Host” and close the window. You can also lock the Screen Share by default for all your meetings in your web settings.

  • Disable video: Hosts can turn someone’s video off. This will allow hosts to block unwanted, distracting, or inappropriate gestures on video or for that time your friend’s inside pocket is the star of the show.

  • Mute participants: Hosts can mute/unmute individual participants or all of them at once. Hosts can block unwanted, distracting, or inappropriate noise from other participants. You can also enable Mute Upon Entry in your settings to keep the clamor at bay in large meetings.

  • Turn off file transfer: In-meeting file transfer allows people to share files through the in-meeting chat. Toggle this off to keep the chat from getting bombarded with unsolicited pics, GIFs, memes, and other content.

  • Turn off annotation: (default is on) You and your attendees can doodle and mark up content together using annotations during screen share. You can disable the annotation feature in your Zoom settings to prevent people from writing all over the screens.