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Overview
Zoom is a video conferencing service with which you can conduct virtual meetings. You can use Zoom on various devices, making it ideal for remote work, virtual team collaborations, webinars, online training sessions, or online classes. Key features include:
- High-definition video and audio
- Screen sharing and collaboration tools
- Meeting recording and transcription
- Breakout rooms for group discussions
- Chat functionality during meetings
Requirements
- You need an account to host a meeting. A license for a Basic account is available to all staff. There is a limited number of Full account licenses, and very few licenses are available for Large Meetings and Zoom Webinars.
Meetings are collaborative events where participants can share their screen, control their video and audio, and see other participants. Webinars are like virtual lecture halls where only the host and designated panelists can share their video, audio, and screens. For more details, see this Zoom support article.
- Basic accounts include hosting meetings for up to 40 minutes and up to 100 participants.
- Full accounts include hosting meetings for up to 30 hours and up to 300 participants.
- Large Meeting accounts and Zoom Webinar accounts can each have up to 500 participants.
- To obtain any of these licences, create a Software Request ticket. You must provide a business justification to qualify for a Full, Large Meeting, or Webinar licence.
- If the Zoom software isn’t on your college-owned device, your Software Request ticket can include installation.
Documentation
Once you have the license, start a meeting with the following steps:
- Navigate to the college’s default URL, pima.zoom.us.
- Use your single sign-on (SSO) credentials to log in to your Zoom account. See the Signing into Zoom with SSO knowledge base article for details.