{"id":3558,"date":"2020-03-12T22:07:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T22:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/?page_id=3558"},"modified":"2020-04-16T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:30:55","slug":"configure-settings-before-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/zoom-resources-for-faculty\/configure-settings-before-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure Settings Before Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can review and adjust several important settings in the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/washington.zoom.us\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoom web portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These settings all control how the meeting works, and managing these settings before starting a meeting can create a smoother experience for you and your participants. These settings also allow you to secure your class session, and UW IT Connect has an in-depth overview of the different ways you can <a href=\"https:\/\/itconnect.uw.edu\/connect\/phones\/conferencing\/zoom-video-conferencing\/security-settings\/\" class=\"broken_link\">protect your Zoom meeting space and class sessions<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profile Settings<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customize your personal meeting link to use your name. This can help you differentiate between your personal meeting link and other meetings that you schedule. We recommend that you avoid using your personal meeting link for scheduled class sessions; if you do, be sure to enable the waiting room, require that meeting participants authenticate (sign in to Zoom), or use a password to protect the meeting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Double check your time zone, as all meetings scheduled will be based off this setting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meeting Settings<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Host video: this setting allows you to start meetings with host video on, by default.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants video: this setting allows you to have participant video on, by default, when they join a meeting. Participants can change this during the meeting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audio Type: this setting determines how participants can join the audio portion of the meeting. Most participants will join by computer audio, but you can enable both computer audio and telephone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join before host: this setting controls whether students or colleagues can join a meeting before you start it. We recommend leaving this setting disabled for most live class sessions and virtual office hours.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mute participants upon entry: this setting, if enabled, can help mitigate audio issues at the beginning of a session. Participants can un-mute themselves at any time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable breakout rooms: this setting allows the meeting host to start breakout rooms.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable breakout room pre-assign: this setting allows you to create breakout room groups while scheduling a meeting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The settings that you choose here will be applied to all future meetings, but you can also adjust settings for an individual meeting when you schedule it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recordings Settings<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allow hosts and participants to record a local file: this setting allows students to record their breakout sessions, which may be useful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable cloud recording (Record active speaker with shared screen): this setting allows you to store your recording on the Zoom web portal, share it via a link, or download it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Save chat messages from the meeting\/webinar: this setting allows you to review chat messages after the session. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can review and adjust several important settings in the Zoom web portal. These settings all control how the meeting works, and managing these settings before starting a meeting can create a smoother experience for you and your participants. These settings also allow you to secure your class session, and UW IT Connect has an in-depth overview of the different ways you can protect your Zoom meeting space and class sessions. Profile Settings Customize your personal meeting link to use&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/zoom-resources-for-faculty\/configure-settings-before-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Configure Settings Before Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":3535,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","mug-shot":"","sidebar-width":"","full-content":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>You can review and adjust several important settings in the Zoom web portal. These settings all control how the meeting works, and managing these settings before starting a meeting can create a smoother experience for you and your participants. These settings also allow you to secure your class session, and UW IT Connect has an in-depth overview of the different ways you can protect your Zoom meeting space and class sessions. Profile Settings Customize your personal meeting link to use your name. This can help you differentiate between your personal meeting link and other meetings that you schedule. We recommend&hellip;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/zoom-resources-for-faculty\/configure-settings-before-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Configure Settings Before Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"coe","url":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/author\/coe\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3558\/revisions\/3776"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}