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Review Zoom Recording and Student Privacy and Conferencing, Web Recording and FERPA
Before Scheduling (Global Defaults)
- Make sure you’ve downloaded and are using the most recent version of the Zoom client.
- ❗ Don’t share the meeting URL publicly.
- ✅ Enable Screen sharing and limit to Host Only
- ✅ Enable Annotation if needed during meeting
- 🚫 Disable Allow Participants to rename Themselves
When Scheduling (Meeting Settings)
- 🚫 Disable Join before host
- ✅ Enable waiting room
- ✅ Enable Only authenticated users can join and restrict to Signed in with a Portland State account (Odin)
- ✅ Enable Mute participants upon entry (optional, depending on class size)
During the Meeting (Crowd Control)
- Click Participants to open the Participant Panel during the meeting. Keep it open during the entire meeting for quick access to participants and settings.
- Click Chat to open the Chat Panel during the meeting. Keep it open during the entire meeting for quick access to chat and settings.
- Click Chat kebab menu (…) to disable or limit participant chat.
- 🚫 Disable Participant Annotation
- Click More from the participant panel and select
- 🚫 Disable Allow Participants to Unmute Themselves
- ✅ Enable Lock Meeting once all participants have joined
Emergency! (React Quickly)
- ❗ Use the Security panel (first available in Zoom client 4.6.10 released 4/7/2020) for quick access to
- Lock Meeting (prevent additional participants from joining)
- Enable Waiting Room (if not already enabled)
- 🚫 Disable Participant Share Screen
- 🚫 Disable Participant Chat
- 🚫 Disable Participant Renaming
- Share your screen to quickly replace any inappropriate content someone else might be sharing. Host sharing overrides participant sharing.
- Hover next to name of participant to
- Mute audio
- Stop video
- Hover next to name of participant to
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- Click down caret next to participant name to
- Put in waiting room (temporarily remove participant)
- Remove (permanently remove participant from the meeting)
- Click down caret next to participant name to
This article was last updated on Feb 25, 2021 @ 4:14 pm.