Highline Zoom Guide

Zoom is a web conferencing tool that combines video conferencing, chat, screen/window sharing, and mobile collaboration. It is essentially an online meeting room. It is available to faculty and staff on campus.

You may go directly to the Highline Zoom homepage to log in, or continue for tutorials on how to set up and use Zoom.  Check out these recommendations for improved security for your meetings.

Log in to Zoom

Zoom Tutorials (all users)

• Start here! Zoom installation and sign-in instructions
• How to join a Zoom meeting
• Tips on Using Zoom with Slower Internet
• You can find more about how to use Zoom on the official Zoom website including Tutorial Videos

Zoom Hosting Tutorials

• Waiting Room – Users connect, but are kept in a holding area until you explicitly let them into the room. Hand for confidential discussions in office hours.
• Breakout Rooms – Create small group rooms within the main conference.
• Polling – For in-meeting feedback opportunities
• Share a second camera – Handy for document cameras, or if you want to point a camera at lab equipment, a keyboard to show key sequences, and so on.
• Zoom AI Companion

Zoom for Staff and Faculty

• Using Zoom in your Canvas course

Important: Don’t record to Zoom cloud storage

A quirk of our current contract is that we only have a certain (very, very, small) amount of storage for Zoom recordings. If you need to record your Zoom sessions, please record them locally.

If you need them to be available to others, there are a few options:

• Recording Zoom to your computer
• Upload recordings to Google Drive and share them
• Upload recordings to Canvas Files or the Media Tool in the content editor
• Upload recordings to YouTube

Faculty: If you’re sharing these with students and expect to use them for multiple quarters, contact the Instructional Design team to discuss captioning options.

No longer using Zoom?

The college has a limited number of Pro licenses. If you’re not going to use Zoom any more, please contact the Help Desk to release the license to another colleague.

Questions?

• Please contact the Help Desk.