Zoom Features & Meeting Roles

Zoom is available to all Northwestern faculty, staff, and students on the left-hand navigation of Canvas courses or through Northwestern's Zoom page Links to an external site..

Zoom provides:

• video and audio support for up to 100 concurrent participants
• meeting support for up to 300 concurrent participants
• high-quality recordings (including editable transcripts) of meetings stored in the cloud
• integration with both Canvas and Panopto (Northwestern's video management platform)

Zoom Features

Zoom offers several features and are explained by clicking the associated links:

Zoom features for facilitating class

• Sharing visuals
• Waiting room
• Customize the waiting room screen
• Whiteboard
• Annotation
• Breakout rooms
• Chats

Meeting Roles: Host, Alternative Host, and Co-Host

You may require support to assist with in-meeting tasks such as managing the chat, starting and stopping recording, admitting students from the waiting room, and managing breakout rooms. Some of these tasks will require you to make a participant a co-host, or even host, of the meeting. You will learn how to add a co-host later in this training.

Take a few minutes now to read this information on what controls are and are not available to co-hosts: Enabling and adding a co-host Links to an external site.

Zoom has different capabilities and permissions for managing meetings. These roles are shown below:

Details of various tasks are explained in this link: Roles in a meeting Links to an external site.