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If you’re new to teaching with Zoom, it’s important to plan a little in advance. There are some important steps that take place before the meeting begins, and a few features also require advance planning to take advantage of. The instructions below will get you started. Before long, they’ll be second nature.

For classes, you'll schedule course meetings directly in via the Zoom tool in the main horizontal menu at the top of the page.

Create a Zoom meeting in Brightspace

In your selected Brightspace course site, select Zoom from the main menu.

Then click Schedule a New Meeting. Once you’re taken to the new window, be ready to enter information about the meeting. Below we’ll highlight a few areas to fill out.

Topic: Enter the title of your Zoom meeting here. This could be your course name or a specific event depending on the purpose of the meeting.
When/Duration: Enter when your Zoom meeting will be taking place and long it will last. If you’re setting up your class Zoom meetings, select the box under Time Zone that says Recurring meeting.
Meeting options: Manage specific settings here if you want to create pre-assigned breakout rooms or mute participants upon entry to cut down on noise.
Alternative hosts: Alternative hosts can start the meeting too. Here you may want to enter the email address of a co-teacher or your teaching fellow if they’re expected to start your online class Zoom meeting.

Once you’re ready to share with students, click Save. While students are not notified once a Zoom meeting has been created, they are able to access Zoom meetings and links in their Brightspace course site through the Zoom tool.

To start the meeting: Go to the Zoom tool and select Start for the meeting you would like to begin. Students may also join this way or you can share the link.

To share the link with students: Go to the Zoom tool and click into the meeting. Scroll down on the page and in the row listed Invite Attendees you can copy the link to then share with students.

If you’re interested in seeing your Zoom meetings in the Zoom tool, log in using SSO to https://nyu.zoom.us using your NYU ID and password. This will reflect any meetings you may have created in Brightspace.

Attendance / Reports

Find out who attended your class by using the Reports feature in Zoom.

After class has ended, you can see a report of who has attended with the Reports tool in Zoom.

After logging into NYU Zoom, select Reports from the left menu. Under Usage Reports, select Usage.
Use the calendar tool to find the specific meeting or class you had in mind. Under the Participants column, you can click the number of participants and from there, a list of names and email addresses associated with them will pop up. This a list of everyone who attended your online class.

Note that if students join your meeting using a meeting link rather than through your course site, the names that appear on the report will be however they have chosen to identify themselves. If they all join through Brightspace the names and IDs will all come from your roster.

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