Using Zoom in Classrooms

For zoom sessions and recordings, you can choose to use the room's built-in camera and microphone system to connect to a laptop or the podium computer.

With this option you would log in, schedule and initiate zoom sessions on a computer, connect it to the podium equipment and manage content sharing, recording, camera/microphone selection, participants, etc. yourself.  

Connect the USB pullout cord that carries the camera/microphone signal to your desired computer, and select the room's camera and microphone in your zoom settings (Find the settings for your room here ) 

You schedule and initiate the zoom call and start, stop and pause any recordings yourself.

- Turn on the technology with the touch panel and send any device content that you want captured to the projector or display 

- Make sure that you are wearing a microphone with a full battery that is turned on and unmuted (it lives in the black drawer in the podium) 

- Use the touch panel controls (under the button that looks like a zoom camera) to point the camera at what you would like to capture.

- in order to record the document camera or other computer content, share it to zoom. 

For orientations in your classrooms, please fill out the following form so that we can match you with a trainer when you and the room are both free: https://bit.ly/3E67Xfn 

If you have questions, please call us at 847-467-7666 (just 7-ROOM from an on-campus phone) or email us at smartcls@northwestern.edu

Not seeing “Lecture Capture” listed as a feature of your room? You can work with the Registrar or your department administrator to request that your class be moved to a room that is equipped for lecture capture or that a mobile Zoom cart is placed in your classroom (if you only need to Zoom occasionally).