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How to Require Authentication for Zoom Meetings
Faculty may wish to restrict access to Zoom class meetings by permitting only users with with a trinity.edu Zoom account to join. This ensures that no one from outside Trinity College can join, even if they know the meeting’s passcode. To enable this feature: Go to trincoll.zoom.us and sign in to manage your account. Choose “Settings” on the left menu. Scroll down through the Security section to “Only authenticated users can join meetings.”Set the toggle from gray to blue (from left to right). When you create or edit a meeting, you can now choose “Only authenticated users can join” in the meeting options. By default, you should see “Trinity College…
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Create a Proxied Link to Library Resources
Paste your link here. Include the full URL, including the http:// Copy the link below, or follow the instructions if you get an error. Alternately, you can use a Javascript bookmarklet to redirect yourself to a proxied version of the page you’re on. To set this up, create a new, blank bookmark in your Bookmarks Toolbar. Give it a name like “Library Proxy” and paste the following into the box for the URL: javascript: var inbox = window.location.href; var outbox = 'http://ezproxy.trincoll.edu/login?url=' + inbox; window.location.href = outbox; Now you can click on the Library Proxy bookmark on any page to go to the proxied version, if it’s available.
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Audio Conferencing with Zoom
1. When you schedule a meeting in Zoom (through your browser or through the Zoom client), the default option is to use “Telephone and Computer Audio”. This allows participants to connect to the audio stream either way. If you want to force everyone to connect via phone set the Audio option to “Telephone”. Then proceed to start the meeting as you normally would. Note this only affects the audio portion of the Zoom meeting. You can, if you wish, still use the screen sharing, video and other Zoom features. More information on getting started with Zoom 2. Distribute the details to participants: You can use the calendar links to add it…
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Uploading an Unlisted Video to YouTube
To upload videos longer than 15 minutes, you must verify your Google account. To do this: On a computer, go to https://www.youtube.com/verify. Sign in to your Google account if you’re not already signed in. Choose whether you want to receive your verification code by text or voice message, then enter your phone number. Enter the code that was sent to you by text or voice message. Verified? Great! Now it’s time to upload: Navigate to the YouTube home page and select the camera icon in the top right screen. From the resulting dropdown menu, select “upload video.” 2. Login to YouTube using a Google account. 3. Once logged in, select…
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Zoom Breakout Rooms
By default, a Zoom session takes place entirely in the main room. If you want to split students into discussion groups, you can do so by creating breakout rooms. (NOTE: If you are recording your session to the cloud, Zoom will record the main room only.) You can create the rooms ahead of time and pre assign students or you can create them on the fly after you have started a Zoom session. You must be the host of the meeting; co-hosts cannot create breakout rooms but they can jump between them. To start using them select the icon that looks like four squares (you may need to click the…