Zoom is a live online conferencing platform. It gives instructors the ability to meet virtually in real time with students — using the Zoom Client app — and share content from their computer screens, while also communicating with students via synchronous audio, video (camera), and text chat tools. Zoom is the best digital proxy for a face-to-face classroom experience.
Want a condensed, two-page "cheat sheet" for Zoom?
Download the Zoom Quick Reference Guide for CSCC Faculty.
A quick overview of how to get Zoom for the first time and then set it up.
Already have Zoom? Avoid the Waiting Room by following this simple 1-minute process.
Don't have Zoom in your Blackboard class as a menu button? Fix that in a minute and a half.
Everything you need to know to schedule a series of regular, repeating Zoom meetings in Blackboard with your students.
Learn how to set up virtual office hours — or any open-ended meeting you want — for your students in a Blackboard course.
Need a common set of virtual office hours — or any open-ended meeting you want — for all your students in all your Blackboard sections? This is how you do it.
In less than a half-hour, discover how to begin a Zoom class session and manage its essential features.
Two options for displaying a Word document, PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or any other file to your students.
Three methods for presenting a PowerPoint slide show to your students.
Want to send somebody a file in the middle of a meeting? Find out how to do it in less than two minutes.
Learn how to designate a participant to do live transciption (closed captioning) in your meeting.
You had live transcription during your meeting. Now what? Find out how to locate and utilize transcript files with Blackboard.
Discover how to download, install, and configure the Zoom Client, which is the application used to run Zoom meetings. Also explore the process of scheduling meetings using the Zoom website or the Zoom Meeting tool in Blackboard, and understand when to use which method.
Learn about how to conduct a Zoom meeting, including the various Zoom Client interface options and meeting controls that can be used to manage your class content as well as your students. Also walk through the steps involved in creating and publishing Zoom meeting recordings as videos for your students in Blackboard.
If you are not finding the information you need on this page, please search for Zoom help using the DEIS Knowledge Base, or please contact the Faculty Assistance Center (FAC) at teaching@cscc.edu.
| Help Topic | Video | Webpage | |
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| CSCC faculty: How to download, install, and sign in to the Zoom app | View | ||
| CSCC students: How to download, install, and sign in to the Zoom app | View | ||
| Zoom Quick Reference Guide for CSCC Faculty | View | ||
| Zoom Overview Tutorial for Teachers (6:58) | View | ||
| How to Use Zoom, Step by Step for Beginners (12:52) | View |
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| How to link to a Zoom meeting from your Blackboard class | View |