How to Schedule a Zoom Meeting Within Canvas (Instructors Only)

Zoom is now integrated into the Canvas environment and instructors have the ability to schedule a meeting directly from their Canvas classroom.

Note: before using Zoom in your course, we recommend requesting that your account is upgraded to Pro status. This will allow you unlimited meeting lengths, cloud-based recording, and other in-meeting features. Submit your request via support.baypath.edu.

Adding Zoom to Your Course Navigation

Instructors must activate their account by logging into Bay Path's Zoom website at least once before using this tool. Navigate to baypath.zoom.us and click Sign In. If prompted, enter your Bay Path email and password
Log into Canvas as a course instructor and navigate to the course where you would like to add the Zoom link
Click Settings
Click the Navigation tab
Drag Zoom from the hidden items to the place where you would like it to appear in the navigation. Click Save
When launching Zoom for the first time, you will be asked to authorize Zoom LTI Pro to have access to your Canvas account. Click Authorize to continue

Scheduling a Zoom Meeting

From within your Canvas classroom, click Zoom from the navigation bar.
Click Schedule a New Meeting

3. Complete the meeting information form. We recommend including the following information:

Include the course name in the Meeting Topic
Do not require registration
Allow Both telephone and computer audio options
Mute participants upon entry (this will mute everyone's microphone but yours at the start of the meeting)
Click Save
A Canvas Conversation message will be sent to all students in your course
A Canvas calendar event will be added for all students in the course with the Zoom meeting information
To start the meeting, click Zoom from the course navigation menu
Click the Start button to launch the meeting