UC Berkeley has provisioned free Licensed Zoom accounts to all students as a result of Covid-19. Here are a few resources to help you download and secure your Zoom account.
** Effective October 20, 2020, Zoom recordings will only be retained for 30 days **
** Be sure to keep your Zoom updated to the latest version **
Accessing Your Licensed Zoom Account
All UC Berkeley Students have access to a FREE Licensed Zoom account. Please visit this page for instructions on how to download.
Creating a Healthy Virtual Environment
Find out more details on how to establish a healthy virtual culture and other resources to support you during this virtual transition.
Setting up a Zoom meeting
- Changing meeting host privileges (adding co-host)
- Creating a waiting room
- Joining a meeting with or without video
- Pre-assigning participants to breakout rooms when scheduling meeting
- Scheduling a meeting with Google calendar (Google calendar add-on)
- Scheduling recurring Zoom meetings
- Testing video and audio before joining a meeting (test meeting)
- Using screen reader alerts
Securing Your Zoom Account
See more information on how to keep your zoom account up-to-date and to prevent Zoom-bombing.
Zoom Instruction Tips
See these tips from the GSI Teaching & Resource Center on managing online instruction via Zoom.
Meeting Functions
- Adding and managing contacts
- Changing Zoom room display options (speaker, thumbnail, gallery)
- Creating breakout rooms
- Creating self-select breakout rooms (*for versions 5.3.0 version or higher*)
- Enabling and viewing closed captions
- Keeping uninvited guests out of Zoom meeting
- Messaging and chatting
- Muting and unmuting participants in a meeting
- Pinning participants’ videos (ie. professors, speakers)
- Requesting or giving remote control over Zoom
- Setting up and managing polls
- Sharing audio while screen-sharing
- Sharing multiple screens simultaneously
- Sharing screens
- Using annotation tools/whiteboard
- Using Live Transcription