Schedule Class Zoom Meetings

In this guide, you’ll learn how to schedule Zoom meetings in your Canvas course.

Anyone enrolled in your Canvas course can join these Zoom meetings directly from your Canvas course page.

Take these steps when scheduling course meetings:

1.  In your Canvas course, click Zoom in the Course Navigation Menu.

2. Click the Schedule a New Meeting button.

3.  Enter the following information and/or select the following options for your meeting:

• Topic: Your course title and section number is pre-filled. Modify the title as needed.

• Description (optional): Enter in an optional meeting description.

• When: Select a date and time for your meeting. You can manually add any time and press enter to select it or select a time from the dropdown menu.

• Duration: Choose the approximate duration of the meeting. This is only for calendar purposes. The meeting will not automatically end after this length of time.

• Recurring Meeting (optional): Recurring meetings must be sequential. If there is a time that the date changes out of the sequence you must schedule the ‘outliers’ independently.

  • Select the Recurring Meeting checkbox.

• Recurrence: Select how often you need the meeting to recur: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or No Fixed Time.
• End Date: Enter the date that your recurring meeting will end by.

• Security:
  • Waiting Room: Enable Waiting Room for the meeting if you’d like to control when participants join the meeting.
    • The Waiting Room feature allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting. As the meeting host, you can admit attendees one by one, or hold all attendees in the Waiting Room and admit them all at once.
    • Require Authentication to Join: Restrict access to the meeting so that only BLS users can join.
• Meeting Options:
  • Allow participants to join before start time: Allow participants to join the meeting without you or before you join.
  • Mute participants on entry: Mute participants as they join the meeting. Participants can unmute themselves after joining the meeting.
  • Record the meeting automatically: Select In the cloud.
    • Zoom recordings saved to the cloud are automatically added to the course Panopto page
• Advanced Options:
  • Add Alternative Host(s) by entering BLS e-mail addresses separated by commas.

4.  Click Save at the very bottom of the window.