Zoom is a video and web conferencing tool that unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging into one easy-to-use platform. Zoom offers video, audio, and wireless screen-sharing experience across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices with campus-affiliated and unaffiliated users. This tool can be used by Rice faculty to remotely connect with your class via a web conference.
Do I Need Zoom Meeting or Webinar?
Zoom Meeting and Webinar are similar, but different products.
Meetings
- Recommended for classes with fewer than 75 students.
- Facilitates collaboration with all participants being able to screen share, turn on their video and audio, and see who else is in attendance.
- The Breakout Rooms feature is available in "Meetings" but not in "Webinars."
Webinars
- Recommended for classes with 75 or more students.
- Designed so that the instructor and any TAs (ie, the Zoom "host" and "panelists") can share their video, audio, and screen.
- Students would only be able to see and hear the class lecture unless the professor unmutes individual students.
- They have the ability to interact via Q&A, chat, and answering polling questions.
- You can Get Started with Webinars
(Links to an external site.)or Find More Information about Using Webinars.
(Links to an external siteIf you need Zoom Webinars for your large course with 75 or more students, please contact helpdesk@rice.ed
These instructions will show you how to use Zoom in Canvas.