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What is Zoom? Zoom is a video-conferencing platform for which Marist owns a license. It allows you to engage in live web conversations with your colleagues, students, and faculty using audio, video, and text-based chat features. It is also available for use from your Brightspace course offering site. Using your Marist account, you can generate a link that can be shared with participants, who can then follow the link to join a live conversation.

Marist Direct Link to Zoom:  https://marist-edu.zoom.us/

How to check your Marist Zoom License

To proactively verify if you have a Marist Zoom License account, please follow these steps: 

Using your preferred web browser proceed to : https://marist-edu.zoom.us/

1. Select Sign In.
2. Select SSO.
3. Enter marist-edu for the domain when prompted.
4. Authenticate via DUO if prompted.
5. This will bring you to your Profile page.
6. Scroll down to the Account section.
7. Your account will say Licensed. 

Click here if you need additional help.

Zoom and Brightspace

Adding the Zoom tool to your Brightspace Course Offerring Site:
  1.  Access your Brightspace course offering.

  2.  Select "Content" on the Navigation bar.

  3.  Next click "+ New Unit" from the top of the left column in Content.

  4.  Title the Unit "Zoom".

    1.  Scroll down to the bottom to toggle the button from Hidden to "Visible".

    2.  Click "Save and Close".

  5.  Next click on the new Zoom unit, click "Add Existing".

  6.  Then click "External Tool Activities" under What would you like to add.

  7.  Scroll down and Click "Zoom" under Insert an External Tool.

  8.  The Zoom tool will now be displayed under the Zoom Unit on the left-hand navigation.

  9.  Next scroll to the top to toggle the button from Hidden to "Visible".

Creating a Recurring Zoom Meeting in Brightspace:
  1.  From the Zoom Tool in the course, click “Schedule a New Meeting”.

  2.  Check the box next to “Recurring meeting” under Time Zone.

    1. Choose the Recurrence: Daily, Weekly,  Monthly.

    2.  Set the End Date.

    3.  Click "Save".

Zoom Helpful Guides

These linked guides will bring you to various support resources.

Vender Support Documentation

Zoom How-To Tutorials

These videos are tutorials on how to use the many different tools Zoom offers to users.

Sharing Commercial Video: 

In order to have discussions with students about the videos during class, Faculty have asked how they can show videos in real-time, in their online class that is hosted within the web conferencing software. The videos in question have ranged from those on Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, or other streaming services, to videos on YouTube, clips from DVDs, Kanopy or the Marist library video databases.

Technical Considerations

Watching videos together live using Zoom can present some technical challenges:

  • Faculty (and student) computers can be a constraint when trying to screen-share a video in Zoom without choppiness.
  • Copyright protection on paid services and media will prevent the video from being shared with the Zoom application, showing only a blank grey screen. To determine if the video you want to watch has copyright protections, do a test before your class to see if a colleague can see the video.  
  • Screen sharing videos from services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime to others, particularly those without paid accounts on those services, is in violation of the terms of service for those providers.  Faculty should not use Zoom to screen share videos from those paid providers.

  • If you want to watch a video with your class which is hosted in Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. and don’t want to ask all of your students to get a paid account in that service, visit Kanopy or the Library Streaming Reserves to see if the video can be obtained and streamed by the library.

Recommended Solutions

To optimize your live class time with the students, our recommendation is that you use one of these other approaches to meet your learning goals:

  • Require students to watch the video on their own, before a particular live class meeting, and then discuss during the live class (as mentioned above, note that if the video is in a paid streaming service such as Prime or Netflix, students will need to have a paid or free trial account to do this).

  • For shorter video clips, during a live class meeting, post the link to the video in the Zoom chat (or post before class in the course website). Pause the live class for the length of the video, ask students to click the link and watch the video on their own computer while muting their Zoom audio/video feed, then return to the Zoom class meeting to discuss.

  • Have students convene in the live Zoom meeting, each mute their Zoom audio and start playing the video on their own computer at the same time. Use Zoom text chat or other group text chat application for “sidebar” conversations in real-time, as the video plays on each student’s computer.

  • If the video is a long film, consider asking students to start the film at the same time and comment during the screening on Twitter, Zoom chat, and also stop the film at certain points so the class can discuss the section they have just seen in a Zoom meeting.

 Digital Education  Phone:  845-575-3572    Location:  Library 305

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Contact Us

If you have any questions or need further assistance with the tool, please don’t hesitate to contact us.