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Licenses for hosting webinars

You'll need a license to host Zoom Webinars. Email webinars@essex.ac.uk to request one.

Zoom Rooms

Zoom Rooms are specially equipped spaces that you can use for online meetings and teaching.

Guidance for meeting hosts

If you're hosting, it's important your sessions can take place in a safe, secure and efficient manner.

Recording

 Access your recordings

To access your recordings, sign in to your Zoom account and choose the Recordings tab.

Schedule a recording

When scheduling your meeting, always choose Record the meeting automatically in the cloud.  You should always let your attendees know at the start of the meeting that you will be recording.

How long are recordings kept for?
  • Your own recordings are kept in the cloud for three months and then automatically deleted. If you want to keep your recordings, you’ll need to download and save them to a different file storage service.
  • For automatically scheduled recordings of teaching events, recordings are kept in the cloud for 24 hours and then automatically deleted without warning. However, the recording will be automatically imported into and made available in Panopto (Listen Again).
  • If the recording is a learning resource, you can manually import it into Panopto for later use in Moodle.

Learn more about recording.

Etiquette

Our online meeting etiquette guide (.pdf) provides useful information about attending and hosting meetings.

Zoom backgrounds

A collection of Essex images are available to use as a background for your Zoom meetings.

Help and training

Getting started:

Training from the University's Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team:

How-to videos and training courses from Zoom.com:

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