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Zoom Meetings Manager is the new way to add Zoom meetings to your Moodle course. It has a number of advantages over the old ‘Zoom Meeting (web conferencing)’ method, such as:
The Eden Centre plans to phase out the old “Zoom Meeting” tool, so please use the Zoom Meetings Manager from this point on (September 2021). |
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Step 1: Add the Zoom Meetings Manager to your Moodle course
You will only need to do this step once for each Moodle course. We recommend adding the Zoom meetings manager to the top section of your course pageDo not perform steps 1 and 2 for each and every Zoom meeting (see the optional step 5 below). Jump to Step 3 if the Zoom Meetings Manager has already been added to your course.
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We recommend adding ONE Zoom meetings manager to the top section of your course page. |
Make sure you have previously signed into Zoom using your LSE account before starting. This ensures you have a valid LSE Zoom account.
Once you have your Zoom account, sign into Moodle and go to the Moodle your course page and Turn editing on. Scroll to the section where you want the Zoom Meetings Manager to be displayed, click Add an activity or resource and pick Zoom Meetings Manager.
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Please note that the Eden Centre is not able to automatically schedule Zoom meetings based on the timetable because there is currently no method enabling Zoom to talk to the LSE timetabling system.
Step 5 (optional): Add a link from anywhere in Moodle to a specific Zoom session
If you would like to add a link to a particular Zoom meeting from a specific location within your Moodle course (e.g. in a section for MT week 07) you can add a Zoom meeting link using the URL (web link) tool. To add such a Zoom link, follow the steps below.
First, go to the details page for your Zoom session by clicking on the session title (e.g. highlighted below)
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Right click on the “Join URL” address and click on “Copy link” or similar.
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Add a new URL resource to your preferred Moodle course section. See our “URL (web link” guide for details on how to do this. Paste the URL you just copied into the “External URL” box (as below).
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Click “Save and return to course”.
General Settings
Topic
Provide a name for the meeting, such as “EC201 Week 01 Lecture”, or “EC201 Week 01 Class 06 Meeting”. If using the recurring meeting setting (see below), you do not need to include the date or week number.
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Meeting options
We recommend that you do not Enable join before host as students who join early and leave again may trigger a zoom recording upload. It may also prevent “zoombombing” (unwanted visitors in your meeting).
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