Zoom FAQs
Recording Scheduling meetings and inviting students Features Browser compatibility
Topic: Communicate & collaborate
Manage participants in Zoom waiting rooms and breakout rooms
To make meetings as secure as possible and to minimise potential disruption, the waiting room feature is enabled on UTS Zoom accounts and cannot be turned off. Participants from UTS must be signed into Zoom with their UTS credentials to access your meeting. Any guest participants from outside UTS...
Record your Zoom meeting
Zoom recordings can be accessed from the Zoom Cloud or from Canvas. Note that if you are accessing your recording from Canvas, only the Zoom meeting recordings associated with the subject you are viewing will appear. When you use Zoom for the first time, you will be asked to...
Manage alternative hosts, co-hosts and schedulers in Zoom
Assigning scheduler privilege You can give a UTS colleague permission to schedule, manage, and start meetings on your behalf by giving them scheduler privilege. Login to UTS Zoom web portal using your UTS student/staff ID and email password and select ‘Settings’. Select ‘Other’. Scroll down to the ‘Schedule Privilege’ section of the...
Plan your Zoom session
1. Have a lesson plan Having a lesson plan that is adapted for Zoom is key for a successful online class, as the experience is very different from running a face-to-face class. Consider the structure of your session and how to facilitate student engagement and interactions effectively. Class activities tend...
Manage your Zoom breakout room effectively
Breakout rooms can be very effective spaces for student group collaboration, provided that students have explicit instructions. Planning is required to ensure students participate in structured, focused and productive discussions and activities. Here are some things to consider before you conduct a breakout room activity: Determine whether breakout rooms...
Deliver a Zoom Webinar
Zoom Webinars are very different to Zoom meetings in the way they are set up, scheduled, and customised. They also offer a completely different experience for the participants and the hosts. Before you decide to run a Zoom Webinar, you need to consider the points below. The number of...
Manage disruptions during your Zoom session
The default security settings for all UTS Zoom accounts have been adjusted to minimise the risk of unwanted disruption, including: UTS account access – participants must be signed in to a UTS staff, student or alumni account to access your meeting. Guests not signed into a UTS account are...
Run your Zoom session
1. Start early Start your Zoom meeting earlier than the scheduled time if you can. This will allow you time to handle any technical issues, and gives participants the chance to do the same. Switch off your camera and microphone until the scheduled meeting time, and you could share...
Run an attendance report in Zoom
Go to the reports tab of UTS Zoom at least 30 minutes after your meeting has ended. Click on ‘Usage’. Your most recent meetings from the preceding 24 hours will display. Adjust the date range if you want to see a meeting from another date. You can also choose which columns...