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Zoombombing? What to Know for Public Zoom Meetings

Zoom Update: In response to the issues concerning privacy and security, Zoom has automatically defaulted the as screen sharing settings for Education customers to “Only Host” as of March 26, 2020. To enable participant sharing, please visit the following link: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360041591671

Please Note: This information is for publicly shared Zoom meetings and does not apply to Zoom in the classroom. For that information, please see Zoombombing in the Classroom? Not On Our Watch.

Zoom, the video & web conferencing solution, has become the de-facto service of choice for working remotely and staying in touch with loved ones during the stay-at-home orders taking place across the country. As with any rapidly adopted service, however, some folks want to rain on the parade. Continue reading Zoombombing? What to Know for Public Zoom Meetings

Working/Teaching Remotely? Check Out Our Tutorial Videos!

With SMU temporarily moving classes online due to the COVID-19 outbreak, OIT has been gearing up to provide even more resources to our community to make remote working, teaching, and learning as easy as possible. We have put together some brief videos to get you started with our most popular services that can make your transition to remote work simpler. Click continue reading below to take a look!

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New Version of Zoom Client: One Window, More Features

Zoom Logo Zoom has been SMU’s video conference system of choice for a couple of years now, and plenty of you have taken advantage of its ease of use and stellar call quality. Recently, Zoom released an update to their desktop client, and here are some highlights of what’s new!

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Using Zoom to Create Quick and Easy Screen Recordings

Zoom You may already know that Zoom is an excellent way to conduct online meetings and webinars, but did you also know that it can also be an easy tool for quickly recording your screen and audio? All you need is the Zoom Meetings Client and a microphone! This comes in handy if you need to make a quick instructional video or visually document an issue or process. Continue reading Using Zoom to Create Quick and Easy Screen Recordings

Zoom Makes Meetings Easy

Zoom Logo Whether you work in an office, a classroom, or a study room, meetings can take up a lot of your time. Video conferencing solutions have been around for many years and have helped make meetings less of a production and more about getting things done.

SMU now offers video conference services to all students, faculty, and staff with Zoom! Instead of having to go to a special room with confusing specialty hardware; anyone with a laptop, smartphone, or tablet can start or join a meeting with anyone in the world. You can also share your computer screen for presentations and chat via text, audio, or video with your attendees.

Getting started is super easy. Just head to smu.edu/zoom and click the log in button! Once there, you can download Zoom’s software to your computer or mobile device and start meeting. If you need any pointers on how to get started, Zoom provides excellent documents and videos to help.

So next time you need to organize a business meeting, study group, or online presentation, give Zoom a try!