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Scheduling Zoom Meetings in UNM Learn

If you have not already done so, add a Tool link for Zoom Meetings to your course menu. Note: this must be done for each course where you wish to use the tool. 

  1. Schedule a Zoom meeting 
  2. Start a Zoom meeting 
  3. Edit or delete a Zoom meeting
  4. Advanced Topics


Schedule a Zoom Meeting from UNM Learn

Your students will see only the sessions you schedule using the Zoom Meeting tool inside UNM Learn. If you schedule sessions using the UNM Zoom web portal (https://unm.zoom.us/) or desktop app, they will not see those sessions in their list of Upcoming Meetings. However, if you have already scheduled meetings using the Zoom web portal, you can import those meetings to the Zoom Meetings inside UNM Learn. Please see Troubleshooting & FAQ - "Students not seeing a scheduled meeting."

If you have not already placed a Zoom Meeting link inside of your Learn course, please see Create a Zoom Meetings Link in UNM Learn.

1. Click the Zoom Meeting link from your course menu.  

2. The tool should automatically launch with your Zoom account.  Note: If you are receiving an error when launching, please refer to Troubleshooting & FAQ for a resolution.

3. Click Schedule a New Meeting

4. Select your meeting settings. For more detailed information, see Getting Started > Best Practices...

Topic: the title of your meeting, e.g., your course name or "Office Hours"

When: date and time the meeting will occur

Duration: how long the meeting will last

Recurring meeting: meetings that will be used more than once in the course (e.g., weekly discussion meetings or office hours)

 Example for a class that will meet every MWF:

  • Recurrence = Weekly
  • Repeat every 1 week
  • Occurs Mon, Wed, Fri
  • End date = last week of class

Security: Securing your Zoom Meeting

  • Add a meeting passcode. For added security, you should generate a meeting passcode.
  • Enable Waiting Room. Allows the meeting host to control who is admitted into the meeting.
  • Require authentication to join.  Be sure to select "Restrict to UNM Accounts - *.unm.edu".  This will ensure your meeting is only accessible to UNM students and faculty.

Video Host/Participant: select whether you would like your/your participants' video cameras to be automatically turned on or off when joining the meeting

Meeting Options - Recommendations:

  • Do not “Enable join before host”. This will prevent others from using your meetings in ways you did not intend. Only select this setting when a password is set, and you would like your students to meet without you.
  • Mute participants upon entry.  Students can unmute themselves during the class.
  • Do not “Use Personal Meeting ID”. Think of your personal meeting ID as a standing meeting that never expires. If you use your personal meeting ID for multiple uses, you may end up with conflicts or overlap of participants. Leave this unchecked to generate a unique meeting ID.
  • Record the meeting automatically – Record to the Cloud:

    If you prefer to not record or to only record part of your Zoom Meeting, you can leave this turned off and when desired, use the in-meeting menu instead.



    Recordings that feature interactions with students should not be shared using Zoom’s built-in share feature. Shared recordings through Zoom give anyone with the link unauthenticated and unauditable access. For information on securely sharing Zoom recordings, please see instructions for how to do a manual upload on Zoom Recordings and UNM Learn.


5. Add "Alternative Hosts" - Add any Teaching Assistants or Co-Instructors to the “Alternative Hosts” field by entering their UNM email addresses. Alternative Hosts can start the meeting and share hosting capabilities. To enter several at a time, separate them with a comma, e.g., louie_lobo@unm.edu, lucy_lobo@unm.edu, etc.

Note: Be sure anyone you are adding to this field has a Licensed UNM Zoom Account. For more information, see Troubleshooting & FAQ "Alternative Hosts Errors." 

6. Click Save. Your meeting has been scheduled.

7. Scroll back to the top of the Zoom window, and click Course Meetings.

 

 

Start a Zoom Meeting from UNM Learn

If you have not already placed a Zoom Meeting link inside of your Learn course, please see Create a Zoom Meeting Link in UNM Learn. If you have not already downloaded and installed the Zoom Meeting Software, please see Downloading and Installing Zoom. 

Before starting your meeting, be sure you have closed out of any applications you will not be sharing, especially those that make large demands on system resources.

1. Click the Zoom Meeting link in your course menu.



2. Find the meeting in the Upcoming Meetings tab, and click Start.


3. You may be prompted by your browser to Open Zoom Meetings.

 

Edit or Delete a Zoom Meeting

If you need to change settings for a Zoom Meeting, you can edit a scheduled meeting without deleting and re-creating it. Note: you cannot edit individual meeting sessions created as part of a recurring meeting. If you no longer need a meeting, you can also delete meetings from inside UNM Learn.

Edit a Meeting

  1. Click the Zoom Meeting link in your course menu.

  2. Find the meeting in the Upcoming Meetings tab, and click the Topic.


  3. Click Edit this Meeting.


  4. Make any needed changes and click Save.

 

Delete a Meeting

  1. Click the Zoom Meeting link in your course menu.

  2. Find the meeting in the Upcoming Meetings tab, and click Delete.


  3. Click Delete to confirm. (Note: You will not be able to recover this meeting.)


Advanced Topics - Creating Polls and Breakout Rooms

Polls

Polls can be created and deployed during a meeting.  See Hosting a Zoom Meeting - Polls.  For more complex polls, there are two options for building and adding polls ahead of a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Add polls using a CSV:

  1. Click the Zoom Meeting link in your course menu.
  2. Find the meeting you would like to add a poll to in the Upcoming Meetings tab, click the Meeting Topic.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click Download a CSV Template.
  4. Open the downloaded CSV and replace the demo data with your own titles, questions, and question choices
  5. Delete any text that you don't need.
  6. Save your changes to the CSV file.
  7. In Learn, click Import CSV and choose the modified CSV file you previously saved.
  8. Your Zoom poll(s) will now appear at the bottom of the Zoom meeting page (click the down arrow to confirm these appear as expected).


Add polls using the UNM Zoom portal:

  1. Sign in to the UNM Zoom portal.
  2. In the Meetings tab, find the meeting you would like to add a poll to, click the Meeting Topic.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page, under Poll click Add.
  4. Enter a title and your first question.
    (Optional) Click the Anonymous check box to make the poll anonymous, which will keep the participant's polling information anonymous in the meeting and in the reports.
  5. Select whether you want the question to be single choice (participants can only choose one answer) or multiple choice (participants can choose multiple answers).
  6. Type in the answers to your question and click Save at the bottom.
  7. If you would like to add a new question, click Add a Question to create a new question for that poll.
  8. Click Save.

 

Creating Breakout Rooms

For those who would like to set things up in advance, breakout room pre-assignments cannot be created when scheduling a new meeting using the Zoom tool within UNM Learn. There are two workarounds.

(Option 1) - Create your Zoom meeting in UNM Learn, then edit it at https://unm.zoom.us/meeting#/upcoming to enable Breakout Room pre-assignments.

(Option 2) - Create the meeting at https://unm.zoom.us/, configure the Breakout Room pre-assignments, then import the meeting into your Learn Course. For help with importing, see “Students not seeing a scheduled meeting” in Troubleshooting & FAQ.

For more details, see Web Meetings/ Breakout Rooms.

There are two options for pre-assigning Breakout Rooms ahead of a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Pre-assign users using the Zoom meeting options:
    1. Sign in to the UNM Zoom portal.
    2. In the Meetings tab, find the previously scheduled meeting you would like to add Breakout Rooms to.
    3. Hover over the meeting, click Edit.
    4. Under “Meeting Options”, click Breakout Room pre-assignment.
    5. Click Create Rooms.
    6. Click the plus icon next to “Rooms” to create your additional rooms.
    7. Hover over the default breakout room name and click the pencil icon to rename it.
    8. In the “Add participants” text box, enter the participant’s UNM email address.
Note: Only UNM Zoom users can be added in this way. To pre-assign Zoom users that are not members of the UNM Zoom account, import a CSV file.
    9. Click Save.

Pre-assign users with a CSV File:
    1. Sign in to the UNM Zoom portal.
    2. In the Meetings tab, find the previously scheduled meeting you would like to add Breakout Rooms to.
    3. Hover over the meeting, click Edit.
    4. Under “Meeting Options”, click Breakout Room pre-assignment.
    5. Click Import from CSV.
    6. Click download to receive a CSV Template.
    7. Open the downloaded CSV and replace the demo data with your own.
    8. Save your changes to the CSV file.
    9. Back in Zoom, Drag & Drop or click browse to upload the modified CSV file.

 

NEXT > Hosting a Zoom Meeting.