Zoom Account and Canvas Integration

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This guide covers creating a Zoom account and using the Canvas integration.

Log in to Zoom Account

You must do this once before you access the Zoom link in Canvas.

  1. Go to the Zoom website and click Sign In in the upper-right corner.
  2. Click the black key  SSO icon at the bottom.
  1. Enter wisconsin-edu as the company domain.
    NOTE: You may want to make a note of the domain as you may need it often.
  2. Click Continue and enter your UWEC credentials.

Canvas Integration

If you do not see the Zoom link in your course, complete the steps below.

  1. Access your course and click the Settings button.
  2. Click Navigation along the top.
  3. Scroll to the bottom, click the three dots next to Zoom, and click Enable.
  4. Scroll down and click Save.
  5. Authorize your account the first time you click Zoom on the navigation bar.

If you see a "user does not exist" warning message, complete the steps below.

  1. Click the Account button in the global navigation bar, then click Settings, and click Edit Settings.
  2. Click the Trash can icon next to each Zoom link you see; there may be several.

Schedule Meetings

When you schedule meetings in Canvas, they show on the course calendar and on the student's To Do list.

  1. Access your course and click Zoom in the navigation panel.
  2. Click Schedule a New Meeting.
  3. OPTIONAL: Change or append the Topic line. By default, it is the course name.
  4. Enter date, time, duration, time zone, and recurring as needed
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  5. Change any other settings and click Save.

Join Meetings

  1. Access your course and click Zoom in the navigation panel.
  2. Click Start next to the applicable meeting.

Edit or Delete Meetings

  1. Access your course and click Zoom in the navigation panel.
  2. Click the name of the meeting.
  3. Scroll to the bottom and click either Edit this Meeting or Delete this Meeting.

Recordings

Zoom recordings are deleted after 180 days (six months). By default, Zoom recordings are unpublished. You can publish them for all students or send a share link to individual students. Only teachers can download or delete videos.

Publish

When you publish videos, all students in the course can watch them.

  1. Access your course and click Zoom in the navigation panel.
  2. Click the Cloud Recordings tab.
  3. Slide the Publish button to the right.

Share Link

You can leave recordings unpublished and send a link to individual students. NOTE: Students could forward this information to their classmates.

  1. Access your course and click Zoom in the navigation panel.
  2. Click the Cloud Recordings tab.
  3. Click the name of the meeting under Topic.
  4. Click the Share button and click Copy.
  5. Open an email and click Paste in the body of the email.

View Attendance and Poll Reports

  1. Access your course, click Zoom on the navigation panel, and click the Previous Meetings tab.
  2. Click Report next to a meeting to access the meeting and poll reports.

    HINT: If you use waiting or breakout rooms, there will be multiple rows for each student.