Zoom - Meeting and Recording Settings for instructors [UW-Madison]

In order to create a Zoom Room, you must have at least one of the following options enabled. This requirement is meant to ensure a secure experience for you and your students.

Passcode

• Enabling this setting will prevent anyone from joining the Zoom meeting who does not have the passcode. You will need to make sure you have a way to share the passcode with your students or guests. This option will allow students to join a room before you. However, if a student or guest shares the passcode with someone outside the course, that person can also join the meeting.

Waiting Room Options

• Enabling this setting will allow you to have control over who actually enters your Zoom meetings. See Waiting Room KB from Zoom, but it also adds an extra step for you having to admit participants from the waiting room, and students who arrive a bit late might be forgotten in the waiting room.

Only authenticated users can join meetings

• Enable to require that your students authenticate using their UW NetID. 
  • This might be enough security for your class meetings so you would not have to use a waiting room or a passcode.

Host and Participant videos

• When this is disabled, hosts or participants can join the meeting with their video turned off. (They can turn on video when ready)

Mute all participants’ audio

• Enable this to avoid participants accidentally sharing background noises when joining a meeting. 

Chat 

• Enable to allow participants to send messages visible to everyone. 
  • Let your students know if you plan to save meeting chats or not (see Recording Settings), and whether you plan to review them after a meeting or not. 
  • If you are not actively monitoring the chat window for questions, let your students know how you'd like them to raise questions during a Zoom meeting. 

Private Chat 

• Enabling this will allow participants to send private 1:1 messages. These are NOT visible by the meeting host.

Auto saving chats

•  Enable to have all meeting chats automatically saved if you wish to save them.

Sound notification when someone joins or leaves 

• If enabling, choose for "Host and co-hosts only" so participants won't have to hear the constant notifications.

File Transfer 

• Enabling this will allow file-sharing through the in-meeting chat window.

Polling 

• Enable and create polls to make your class meetings more interactive and engaging.

Screen sharing

• Enable to allow screen sharing by all participants. This can later be turned off and back on during a meeting.

Annotation

• Enable to promote collaboration work during meetings. 
  • Whiteboard with annotations can be saved to document group work.

Whiteboard and Allow saving of whiteboard content

• Enable to allow saving of whiteboard content that can be shared later. (User needs to upgrade their app to version 5.0.4 or later)

Non-verbal feedback and Meeting Reactions

• Enabling this will allow people in the meeting to communicate with emojis without interrupting the presentation. This can help make the meeting more fun and lively.

Allow removed participants to rejoin

• Enable to allow students to come back in if for some reason they are removed.

Allow participants to rename themselves 

• Enable this so students can choose to be anonymous if a meeting is being recorded. Students can also choose to display their pronouns this way. 
  • To change one’s pronouns in Canvas, please see this guide for instructors, and this guide for students. However, pronouns added in the Canvas account will not automatically transfer to users' Zoom account.

Hide participant profile pictures

• Enable to increase participants anonymity, especially if meetings are being recorded. 

Breakout room

• Enable to allow pre-assigning breakout rooms when scheduling a meeting. 

"Closed captioning" and "Enable live transcription service"

• this will allow participants to view closed-captions during a meeting. 

When cloud recording is available

• Enable to receive email notifications. Cloud recordings generally take 2x the meeting duration to process. During high volume traffic time, they can take up to 24-72 hours. Change this setting to best suit your own needs.

When recording is available or about to be permanently deleted 

• Change this setting to best suit your own needs. 
  • Note: Currently all recordings will be saved in your UW Zoom accounts up to 150 days. If you wish to save them for future use, you'll need to download the MP4s and store or upload to another platform, such as Kaltura Media Space

Display participants' names in the recording

• Disable this to allow anonymity.

Audio transcript

• Enable this to have the cloud recording automatically transcribed. This transcription is only about 70% accurate and does not meet ADA standards.

Save panelist chat to the recording

• Enable this to save messages sent to other panelists and all participants. 

Save poll results shared during the meeting

• Enable this setting to save poll results. This might be helpful if you use polling to do quick knowledge checks during a class meeting.

Show international dial-in numbers

• Enable if you have students joining meetings from abroad. 

Mask phone numbers in the participant list

• Enable to increase participant anonymity.