Zoom
About
Zoom is an online meeting tool recommended for teaching-related web conferencing, especially if your classes comprise more than 100 people. All staff, faculty and teaching assistants have licensed Zoom accounts at this time.
Features
- Features screensharing, breakout rooms, annotations, chat, record meetings, and more.
- Join meetings through the Zoom desktop or mobile app (preferred) or Chrome web client (limited features).
- Up to 4 hour meetings.
Support
- Zoom's video tutorials (external link)
- Zoom's help center (external link)
- Email the main Help Desk at: help@torontomu.ca using your TMU email address.
Details
Integrated with D2L Brightspace?: No
Contract Start: 2019
Contract End: TBD
Instructions
Getting started
All faculty, teaching assistants, and staff have licensed Zoom accounts. Simply go to torontomu.zoom.us (external link) and sign-in.
Students
Your instructor may require you to login and authenticate with your TMU credentials to join the meeting room. Doing so requires a TMU Zoom account. Click on "Sign In" on the torontomu.zoom.us (external link) portal to create a TMU Zoom account, and then sign in to the Zoom desktop or mobile application using the Single Sign On (SSO) option.
Resources
Video tutorials
Watch video tutorials created by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Please be aware that these videos were created in 2020, so Zoom's interface may have changed slightly since then.
Additional information
Meetings for more than 300 participants
Expecting more than 300 participants, you can request a large class license (for up to 500 people) or a webinar license (for 500 to 1,000 people). These licenses are available for an additional cost. Please contact help@torontomu.ca for more information.
Not sure if this is the right tool?
For teaching-related web conferencing, we recommend Zoom, especially for classes with more than 100 participants.
For administrative and other web conferencing, we recommend using Google Meet. Google Meet is an online meeting tool that you can access with your TMU Google account — no download required.
Use our handy web conferencing comparison guide to compare features.
Privacy
In August 2023, Zoom made updates to their Terms of Service and privacy policies, specifically addressing changes related to AI features. Please note that these changes do not impact the TMU community, as our current license does not include the use of AI features. Zoom has also clarified their stance, stating that they do not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments or other communications-like customer content (such as poll results, whiteboard and reactions) to train Zoom or third-party artificial intelligence models.
For more information, please read Zoom’s blog post: How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features (external link) .
Privacy recommendations for online classes
Please review privacy recommendations intended for online classes. Please note, different settings may be required for confidential virtual meetings.
The university has conducted the privacy impact assessment and security assessment on Zoom. Please review the recommendations from the assessments:
- Before you start using Zoom, please review Zoom’s Privacy Policy (external link) .
When you are going to record the meeting:
- you need to let the participants know the meeting is recorded prior or at the start of the meeting,
- you should not discuss sensitive topics as discussed in the privacy policy, and
- the host is responsible for the retention and deletion of the recordings in accordance with record retention schedule.
For questions about Zoom privacy, please email us at dmp@torontomu.ca and we will consult with the privacy office accordingly.