Student Guide to Zoom
Student Guide to Zoom
Provide your students/participants with information on what Zoom is, how to use it, and where they can get help. You might provide a Canvas page with this information such as the page below. The following explanations are suggestions and ideas on how to orient and support your students in using Zoom at COC.
This page is available to import from the Commons into your courses at this link: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/6f8700519ba7480b997ecd439df7ca12?shared
Sample Zoom Info for Students
During this course, we will be using Zoom for our weekly class lectures. Zoom is a web-conferencing app similar to Skype. It is free for all California community college students. For best results, you will need a computer or laptop with a microphone and speakers (headphones).
How to Find Zoom in Canvas
In Canvas, you can access Zoom in your course navigation menu.
To get started with your first COC Zoom class meeting, you should receive a meeting link. This can happen one of two ways: By email/calendar invite, or by a link in the Zoom section of your Canvas course.
Examples of two types of COC Zoom Meeting invite links
1. Select on the link your instructor provided, either by email, Canvas Inbox, or an announcement,
2. Or via Canvas by selecting “Zoom” in the course navigation menu, and then selecting the blue “Join” button.
How to Join a Zoom Meeting
If this is your first Zoom session, Zoom will ask you to download the application.
- Download the Zoom application onto the device you will be using to participate in class.
- Ideally, this should be a laptop, desktop, or tablet, and not a smartphone. Zoom does exist for smartphones, but it will be very difficult to see the slides that your instructor presents on that small of a screen.
- When prompted, select “OK."
That’s it! You will now be entered into the Zoom Class.