Zoom for Faculty

On this page you will find individual tutorials for specific tasks commonly preformed by instructors in CUNY Zoom.

Accessing CUNY Zoom

On your web browser, go to https://cuny.zoom.us and log in with your CUNY Login credentials: username: firstname.last nameXX@login.cuny.edu

Zoom General Settings that are valid for all Zoom meetings

• CUNY Zoom security protocol
• Zoom meeting background images guidelines
  If you want to use a background image in your Zoom meetings, follow the guidelines in the above linked article to eliminate the jiggling of your video, which may cause issues for some students. Otherwise, we recommend not using background images.
• Using live transcription in Zoom
• Recommended Zoom meeting setting (video)

Schedule and conduct Zoom Meetings

• Scheduling a meeting from Zoom web portal or the app
• Scheduling a meeting from your Brightspace course
• Communicating your meeting information to students
• Starting a Zoom meeting
• Waiting Room - admitting attendees one at a time or all at once to your meeting room
• Conducting a meeting with various meeting controls
• Sharing whiteboard in a meeting
• Using auto-generated live transcript/closed captioning
• In-meeting security features

• Accessing and downloading the session attendance reports

Recording

• Recording a meeting on a local computer or to cloud
• Recording a Zoom meeting
• Finding meeting recordings
• Sharing Zoom recording links in your Bb course

Polling

• Enabling polling
• Creating a poll and conducting polling
• Advanced polling and quizzing for meetings
• Accessing and downloading polling results

Breakout Rooms

• Enabling breakout rooms
• Managing breakout rooms during the meeting (e.g. assign students to breakout rooms, or ask students to choose their rooms.)
• Pre-assigning students to breakout rooms when scheduling meetings (Note:

Brightspace Faculty Support page

Center for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET) home page