Through the Zoom meeting element, you can organize live Zoom conferences in your course. As you took the earlier module in the account setting lesson, your Zoom account should be integrated with your Teachfloor account by now.
You can create an event on Zoom by staying in Teachfloor and managing multiple settings, such as Zoom sessions, which will automatically get recorded and uploaded to the Teachfloor platform.
How to create a zoom meeting element on Teachfloor?
When you come to the Curriculum page on the course, you want to add a Zoom meeting element and edit it. You will see a (+) Add Element. Click on (+) Add Element on the left side of the screen. Click the Zoom Meeting.
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Different Settings in Zoom Meeting Element
Settings of Zoom meeting elements are divided into four major portions:
1. General Settings
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In the general settings, you can set the following settings;
Cover Image - Add a cover image to your zoom meeting module that will reflect the importance of the video.
Name - Give a descriptive name to the zoom meeting, maybe referring to the lesson’s the video is linked to or the topic covered.
Description - This space can be used to add details regarding the zoom meeting and all the information the learners might need previous to starting the video.
Resources - This space can be used to add details regarding the zoom meeting and all the information the learners might need before starting the video.
Display Description on Top - Enabling this will allow the learners to see the description and resources before watching the zoom meeting.
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What the learners should be familiar with or need to have worked on before watching the zoom meeting. Click on the pre-requirements dropdown and choose from your previous lessons or activities that you want to require. You may add multiple pre-requirement activities.
3. Visibility Settings
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You can set visibility options, making it visible to either;
Manually selected learners
To specific roles
To specific tags
4. Zoom meeting Settings
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In order to make a zoom session using Teachfloor, you will see several options;
Start and End Date: First you have to select the start and end date/time.
Zoom Account: You will have to select the zoom account, as you can integrate multiple zoom accounts to your Teachfloor account.
Join Before Host: You can also allow your participants to join before host.
Waiting Room: You can also enable waiting room, and admit participants to the meeting one by one.
Mute Upon Entry: By enabling this, all the attendants will be muted when they join the meeting,
Recording: Teachfloor can retrieve the session, if you recorded it, and will upload it to the Teachfloor.
Meeting Report: You can also get the meeting report of your zoom account.
From student account.
Below is the perspective of the zoom element will look like from students perspective.
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