Your Northwestern Zoom Account

Zoom is available to all Northwestern faculty, staff, and students from the left-hand navigation panel in Canvas courses or through Northwestern's Zoom portal Links to an external site.. We strongly encourage you to log in to all Northwestern Zoom meetings through the secure URL.

When you log in through the Northwestern Zoom portal, you will see three choices:

  • Join: to join a meeting in progress)
  • Host: to start a meeting)
  • Log in: to create or manage your account with NetID and password)

Select an option based on your needs.

The Zoom application window looks like this:

An active Zoom meeting window looks like this: