Zoom meetings

Zoom meetings are designed to be highly collaborative, giving attendees the ability to use audio and video, share their screen, and annotate in a live, interactive environment.

• University of Bath teaching and research staff have a licensed account that allows them to host Zoom meetings using their University credentials (via Single Sign On).
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate students (PGT and PGR) also have licensed Zoom accounts. They have the ability to host meetings for longer than 40 minutes, if they have logged in with their University credentials (via Single Sign On).
• If a student has a basic Zoom account and requires a licence upgrade to allow them to teach regularly on Zoom, this can be requested by the Unit Convenor. Contact tel@bath.ac.uk with the unit code, username of student, and reason for uprgade.

Zoom is integrated with Moodle, allowing staff to invite cohorts of students to timetabled teaching sessions from their Moodle pages. Zoom is not yet integrated with Outlook calendars so participants must be notified of meetings via other routes of communication such as Moodle or by direct email.

Zoom for learning and teaching

• Zoom meetings have a limit of 300 people per meeting.  If greater capacity is required, Large Meeting Room licenses can be purchased by individuals for either one month or one year.
• Zoom can be used for fully online and hybrid teaching sessions. Build and pre-record content in Re:View and Moodle so that your online teaching sessions in Zoom are focused and engaging. We do not recommend simply mirroring a traditional one or two-hour lecture in a Zoom meeting.
• Control the meeting set-up by enabling waiting rooms, muting participants upon entry and setting a meeting passcode.
• Breakout rooms can be automatically or manually assigned (either during the meeting itself or in advance). These allow small group discussions to take place between participants.
• During a Zoom meeting, the host can run quick multiple-choice polls. These can also be created prior to or during the meeting.
• Zoom supports content sharing either by PowerPoint, browser window, or entire screen. Students can share content if required, and multiple participants can share content at once. Staff (and if permitted) students can annotate over the screen with a range of built-in tools. Likewise,  students and staff can use an online whiteboard with multiple pages - this is especially useful for those with touchscreen devices.
• Staff and students can chat with all participants or individuals, and staff can disable chat if required (or only allow messages to be sent by meeting hosts). Download the meeting chat before ending the meeting so that you can respond to queries from students at a later date if you cannot answer them during the meeting.
• Invite external guests to take part in Zoom meetings. For example, a guest lecturer or industry expert who can answer questions on their area of expertise.
• Live transcription is available in Zoom meetings.