# Zoom

You’ll find the **Zoom link pinned in Slack**.\
The same link will be used for the entire semester.

* **How to use Zoom**
  * Please install the **Zoom app** to access all features.
* **Recordings**
  * Sessions will be recorded.
  * More details will be shared separately.
* **Claim Host**
  * Host credentials are **pinned in Slack**.
* **Joining early**
  * The Zoom room opens **30 minutes before** the session.
  * Feel free to join early if you’d like.

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### How to Join Zoom & Claim Host

1. Find the link to the class meeting either in your calendar invite for the session or pinned in the teachers slack channel. Join with one click
2. Go to the participants list and “Claim host”.  Sign in with the host key to become the host. You can find the host key (a series of 6 numbers) pinned in the teacher Slack channel. 

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4. Please make your co-teachers for the session's co-hosts by right-clicking on their name from the participants list.
5. Please do not forget to record the class. We record only Input and Q\&A Sessions.

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### How to create Break-Out Rooms?

1. Click **Breakout Rooms** in the Zoom toolbar.
2. Select the number of rooms you want.
3. Choose how to assign participants: **Automatically**, **Manually**, or let them **Choose a room**.
4. Adjust settings (time limit, ability to return to main room, etc.).
5. Click **Open All Rooms** to start.
6. Move between rooms as host/co-host if needed.
7. Send broadcast messages if you want to share info with all groups.
8. When finished, click **Close All Rooms** and participants return to the main session

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### Recordings

Recordings automatically save into a drive students have access to as viewers. This Drive is pinned to the students slack channel (Bookmarks > Class Recordings) and the teachers slack channel (Teacher Tools > Recordings) . Recordings are available for whole semester. Break out rooms cannot be recorded.

### Default Zoom Settings

* When starting the meeting, audio is off, your video is off and recording is off.&#x20;
* Hosts are allowed to add co-hosts.
* Possibility to send files via meeting chat.
* Breakout rooms enabled. How to setup breakout rooms: [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKJM6JhyUY), [Guide](https://www.cmu.edu/canvas/teachingonline/zoom/breakoutrooms.html).<br>