Instructions
Prior to turning on the integration, please contact LTS@boisestate.edu to have your Zoom account activated and configured correctly.
Step 1: Turn On Zoom
Zoom is turned off by default in all courses. To create a placement, you’ll first need to turn on the Zoom LTI Tool.
- Navigate to the "Course Management" area.
- Select "Customization" to expand the menu.
- Select "Tool Availability".
- All tools are listed alphabetically. Check the box for "Zoom LTI".
Step 2: Adding a Placement
Only one placement of the Zoom tool is needed, as multiple meetings can be scheduled within it. To add a placement, navigate to your desired content area.
Step 3: Logging into Zoom
To begin using Zoom, click the link you’ve just created.
You may receive a message similar to the one below saying that you must sign into Zoom first. If so, click the link to sign in, then refresh.
Step 4: Scheduling a Meeting
Once logged in and within the Zoom experience, click "Schedule a Meeting". You are given options for your meeting name, description, date/time, duration, and recurrence. LTS recommends leaving Registration turned off, both host and participant video defaulted to on, and muting participants upon entry. If you have alternate hosts, you can add their email addresses through this scheduler as well.
Step 5: Viewing (and Launching) Scheduled Meetings via Blackboard
When instructors log into Zoom via Blackboard, they see any meetings they have scheduled in Zoom, regardless of their association to the course. Use descriptive meeting titles to organize your meetings. This will not be an issue for most instructors, but may impact those who use Zoom for other functions, or teach more than one section with Zoom.
Currently, if a secondary instructor is assigned to the course, they will not see any meetings scheduled by their co-instructors. This can be worked around by providing secondary instructors with the meeting ID for scheduled meetings.
When students log into Zoom via Blackboard, they see only the meetings scheduled for that course, regardless of instructor.
Step 6 (Optional): Adding a Left-hand Navigation Course Link
Some instructors may wish to have a link to all Zoom sessions on the left-hand of their Blackboard course, rather than within a content area. To create this, after creating the initial Zoom link, navigate to the small plus symbol in the top left corner. This will bring up a drop down menu. Choose the "Course Link" option:
Next to Location, click on "Browse", then find the name of the tool placement you created in your content area. In this case, it was "Test" under Course Content:
Give it a name, and make it available to users. Students will be directed straight to the Zoom tool in one click, rather than three.
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