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 download the Zoom client from the Zoom Website for MacOS, Windows, Chrome, iOS, and Android.
There is a free license and a Pro license. The free license limits calls to 40 minutes, while the Pro license is unlimited.
Faculty and Staff who need a Zoom Pro license may contact the Help Desk to request one.
If you have questions about using Zoom, or would like to try a test meeting, contact the Instructional Design team at id@highline.edu.
***Note: Zoom sessions MUST be run from your local device. Do not try to run it from a remote desktop session.
- Using Zoom in your Canvas course
- 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
- Join from browser – No download/install required, but has reduced features.
- 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.
- Security Recommendations – Our guide to advanced security for your meetings
- Tips on Using Zoom with Slower Internet
- Zoom AI Companion
Note: 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
If you’re sharing these with students and expect to use them for multiple quarters, contact the Instructional Design team to discuss captioning options.
Done with 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.