Using Zoom in Blackboard Ultra

Accessing Zoom

All UAS faculty, students, and staff have a UA Zoom account which can be accessed at alaska.zoom.us. When joining a Zoom scheduled by another person, it's best to sign in to your Zoom account or UA SSO account first to make sure that you are signed in with your UA credentials and will be able to participate as expected. Otherwise, you may find yourself listed as "guest" and you won't have the same controls and privileges as you would when signed in correctly.

For Zoom basics or support:

• UAS Zoom Cheat Sheet
• UAS Help Desk: Zoom

Integrate Zoom into your Blackboard Course

You can integrate Zoom into your Blackboard course so that students can easily access links and meeting. Start by going to the books and tools menu, locating Zoom, and clicking the plus symbol (+) to add a Zoom placement. It will be hidden from students by default:

If you click on it, then from here, you can schedule meetings with the relevant button, and publish recordings from the "cloud recordings" tab. 

Zoom Recordings

When you record a Zoom meeting, the recording can be found in your Zoom account. Choose "Recordings" from the list of links on the left side of the screen. 

On this page you'll see a list of your recordings with important information about recording time/date, file size, and auto delete date. Recordings are automatically deleted after 730 days. 

Edit or Share a recording

Minor editing can be done to your recording while in Zoom. From the recordings page, click on the meeting you want to edit. From this screen, you can do the following:

1. Click on the video to trim the ends of the video or edit the captions.
2. Click "Download" to download files associated with the video if you want to keep the video or post it elsewhere.
3. Click "Copy shareable link" to get a link that can be pasted into an assignment or email for students.
4. Delete the video and files associated with it.
5. Click the pencil icon to rename the video.

Transcripts

Zoom creates automatic captions but they are machine-generated and need to be edited before being shared with classes. Edit the captions by choosing the section to correct and clicking the pencil icon. The captions can be downloaded as a file that can be uploaded to YouTube if you store your videos there.