Creating web conferences is a very important part of teaching. Here are some best practices when working with web conferences. 

One Zoom link: You can use the same zoom link all year. 

Don’t bookmark link : It might change. 

Add a link to announcements.

Turn the waiting room on.

Creating Zoom Meeting Invite

Go to http://zoom.us

Log in with your @spsmail.org email address and the password you set from your Zoom activation email.

Click on Meetings.

Click on the Schedule a New Meeting button.

Give your meeting a topic, description and set when the meeting begins. Click the Save button to confirm your meeting.

Note: You can require a password if you would like to provide that to the participants. Enabling a waiting room will allow participants to join while the meeting is waiting to start by the host. You need to select allow video on/off for the host and participants.

You will be brought to the new created meetings page. Under Invite Attendees click Copy the invitation.

A new window will pop up with all the meeting details. Click on the Copy Meeting Invitation button to copy a link to the meeting.

Click on the Cancel button after you have copied the meeting invitation.

You have created the new meeting invitation and can now notify participants using either of the two methods below:

Add Zoom Meeting as an Announcement - Zoom - You will create an announcement to send to your entire course with a join meeting link. 

Add Zoom Meeting as an Assignment - Zoom - You will create an assignment with a due date that can be assigned to the whole course or to specific students. 

Creating Zoom Personal Meeting

Note: This option will not send notifications to all students in the course.

Open the course where you want the meeting to be created.

Click the Zoom app from the course navigation menu.

Click Authorize to allow Zoom meetings to access your Canvas account.

Click the Personal Meeting Room tab.

Note: Click Edit this Meeting to enable more options such as video conferencing.

Click Copy the Invitation.

You can now Copy and Paste to email the meeting or link it within Canvas.

Click on the Cancel button after you have copied the meeting invitation.

You have created the new meeting invitation and can now notify participants using either of the two methods below:

Add Zoom Meeting as an Announcement - Zoom - You will create an announcement to send to your entire course with a join meeting link. 

Add Zoom Meeting as an Assignment - Zoom - You will create an assignment with a due date that can be assigned to the whole course or to specific students.