Highline Zoom Guide
Zoom is a web conferencing tool, available to those with a Highline email address, that combines video conferencing, chat, screen/window sharing, and mobile collaboration. It is essentially an online meeting room.
Check out these recommendations for improved security for your meetings.
Zoom Basics
- 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
- 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
Staff and Faculty
Student-Facing Recordings must be Accessible
If you’re sharing recordings with students and expect to use them for multiple quarters, contact the Instructional Design team to discuss captioning options.
Important: Do not record to Zoom Cloud Storage
A quirk of our current contract is that we only have a limited 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, you can:
- Upload the recordings to Google Drive and share them securely
- Upload recordings to Canvas Files or the Media Tool in the content editor
- Upload recordings to YouTube
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.