Zoom Guides
Essentials
- Zoom inside D2L Brightspace (learn how to use Zoom from inside D2l Brightspace)
- Zoom Client Guide
- Zoom Student Guide (how to access Zoom in D2L Brightspace for students)
- Lecture Capture Using Zoom (session recording)
- Managing public meetings with Zoom
- Managing unwanted guests (how to deal with problematic participants/ unwanted guests)
- Set Cloud Recording Playback Range
- Cloud recordings are automatically deleted after 120 days. Move Zoom recordings to Kaltura for long-term storage
- Google Hangout/Meet Student Guide
- Zoom Student Group Guide (using Zoom for student group work)
Zoom Accessibility
Zoom Resources
- Learn about Join a Zoom meeting
- Learn about Zoom Meeting Control
- Sharing your screen or Guide for sharing your screen in a meeting
- Multiple shared screens
- Whiteboard tool built in for drawing and using annotation tools on a shared screen or whiteboard
- New Whiteboard tool
- Create Breakout rooms for student groups and manage Breakout Room
- Sharing screen and broadcasting to breakout rooms
- Audio transcript and editing the transcript
- Enable and use Zoom Audio Transcription (zoom guide on Managing Manual Captions)
- Using focus mode
- Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms (for advanced users who can use registration)
- Polling students
- Advanced Polling & Quizzing
- Zoom Roles in a Meeting
- Changing Photo profile
- Virtual Background
- Sharing PPT slides as a Virtual Background
- Recording layout (Learn what gets recorded in Zoom?)
- Pinning videos (personal view) vs. Spotlight videos (everyone can see)
- Hiding or showing my video on my display
- Join or start a Zoom using a Chromebook
- Hotkeys and Keyboard Shortcuts for Zoom
- Push to Talk
- Using Zoom web client (users who are unable to install the Zoom client on their computer or the Zoom app on their mobile device can join a meeting through their web browser. The Zoom web client offers limited functionality and functions best on Google Chrome.
- Various Zoom video tutorials (Breakout Rooms, Closed Captioning, etc.)
- Schedule a meeting from your Google Calendar
- Using a waiting room
Updated 12/9/2025