Recording Zoom Meetings

Zoom meetings can be recorded locally to a host's computer or to the cloud. We recommend that instructors using Zoom for class meetings schedule their meetings through Canvas and record them to the cloud to ensure students have easy access to recorded meetings without any extra steps.

Instructors may, however, ask for assistance locating and managing recordings. If you want your ZA, TA, or another participant to record the meeting, make that person a co-host or add as an alternative host when you're scheduling the meeting.

Cloud Recordings and Panopto

If Zoom meeting recordings are saved in the cloud, the meeting recording will also be saved to the Panopto account of the person who created the meeting.

Students have access to cloud recordings through the course's Zoom Recordings tab, but no one else will have access to the editable Panopto file unless you share it.

How to Record

Instructors may set up their meetings to record automatically, in which case, simply starting the meeting will start the recording. (Note that this means pre-class chatter will be recorded as well!) If they have not enabled automatic recording, then they can follow these directions to record during the meeting.

Click on the Record icon on the Zoom control bar to begin the meeting recording. You will be prompted to choose either a local recording or the cloud.

While recording, the Record icon becomes a Pause/Stop icon (to pause or end the recording), and a flashing red dot in the upper left of the Zoom window indicates recording is occurring.

Stopping the recording by clicking on the Stop button (or ending the meeting) will cause the recording to:

  • Be converted into an MP4 file if you choose to save it locally to your computer. A window will pop-up prompting you to select a folder to save the recording in, or
  • Be processed on the Zoom server if you choose to save it to the Cloud. The host receives an email when it has finished processing.
    • Videos are accessible in three places: your Zoom account's Recordings tab, in the Canvas course's Recordings tab, and in the Meetings Recordings folder of the meeting creator on Panopto.

    If you stop and start recording multiple times during one meeting, Zoom will create multiple recordings. If you take a break, we recommend that you Pause and then Resume to create one continuous recording.