Using Zoom Through Canvas

Environment

NEOMED Zoom, NEOMED Canvas

Issue

How do I set up Zoom for my Canvas Course? How do I schedule meetings through this tool?

Resolution

Important: When using Zoom through Canvas, your @neomed.edu mail must be primary in Canvas Settings.  

Note: If the Zoom tool is not listed in the list of tools on the left side of the Canvas site page, it must be enabled for the Canvas Site.

Enable Zoom in the Canvas site

To enable Zoom via Canvas course navigation:

  1. Click Settings in the left-hand navigation of your Canvas course.
  2. Click the Navigation tab.
  3. Find Zoom in the list of hidden apps. (It is usually toward the bottom.) Click and drag the Zoom app from the list and drop it in the order you'd like it to be in the course navigation list (under "Drag and drop items to reorder them in the course navigation.") You can also click the three-dots icon beside the Zoom app and select Enable.
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save. 

Tip: To remove Zoom from the course navigation, follow steps 1 and 2 above, click the three-dots icon beside Zoom, and click Disable.

Using Zoom in Canvas for the first time as an Instructor

The first time you use the Zoom app in Canvas, you may see a message that states, "Zoom LTI Pro is requesting access to your account." If you do, click Authorize. Zoom LTI Pro is the tool that connects NEOMED Canvas to NEOMED Zoom.​

Schedule a Meeting through Zoom in Canvas

Note: Webinars are not integrated into the Zoom for Canvas LTI

  • Click the Zoom tool in the Canvas Site.
    • The resulting page is similar to what you see on neomed.zoom.us
  • Click on the 'Schedule a New Meeting' button
  • The meeting options page will open up and allow you to set up your meeting. Note: You may see some differences between scheduling here versus scheduling at neomed.zoom.us. You can always view and edit this meeting through the Zoom interface after the meeting is created.
  • Set up the rest of the meeting to meet your needs
  • Click Save. You can view the meeting you just created by going to the Upcoming Meetings tab and clicking the title of the meeting

Update:  Zoom DOES send out notifications to students through Canvas when a zoom meeting is scheduled in the tool. The instructor will NOT need to send out an announcement about the meeting. If the Canvas site is Unpublished when the Zoom Meeting is scheduled with the Zoom Tool in Canvas, Canvas will NOT send out a notification to students. The Canvas site needs to be Published for this to happen.

Zoom Polling Option

Note: The poll option in Canvas requires a .csv file. If you would like to create a poll through Zoom’s polling tool rather than using the CSV option, you can do so through the Zoom site once the meeting is created. Follow these steps to do so. 

  • Download the .csv, then you can edit it or add to it. DO NOT change the format of the file page
  • When the .csv downloads you and open it, you can expand the columns so you can see everything better
  • There are two default questions and answer options already there
  • You can change the questions and answers, or add additional ones
  • Save the file as a .csv after editing it
  • Choose the 'Import CSV' button on the bottom of the page to import it
  • Once it is imported, you will see your questions listed
  • Click on the Poll Questions to see them
  • Scroll to the top of the page and click on 'Course Meetings' to see all of your scheduled meetings.

Zoom in Canvas for Students

People with a student role in a Canvas course do not need NEOMED Zoom accounts in order to use the Zoom app in Canvas. So long as Zoom is set up in a Canvas course, a student can see all upcoming and previous Zoom meetings associated with that course, plus any recordings the instructor has chosen to publish for students to view.

Note: Students will not see messages about creating or authorizing their account as described in the sections above because they do not need Zoom accounts in order to participate in Zoom meetings--only the host (i.e. the instructor) does.

Students, regardless of whether they have a NEOMED Zoom account or not, will see the student view of the Zoom app in Canvas.

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