During the Pandemic, everyone used Zoom for their courses. Zoom use in academic courses no longer common but, it is still has a place in some courses. You can bring remote guests to your classes via Zoom. With Zoom, you can record short lessons to share with your students. In some cases, Zoom is a great options for recording course lectures. 

If you are using Zoom for class meetings, but you do not wish to share recordings, just use your haverford.zoom.us account as you would for any meeting. This article explains how to use Zoom for course recordings and then share the recordings via Panopto. Once in Panopto, the video will remain available to students for the duration of the course — and beyond. Also, you can take advantage of Panopto’s many features for editing the video and playing it back.

Here is an overview of the process.

1. Add a Zoom Link to your Moodle course
2. Add a Panopto link to your course
3. Create one or more meetings using the Zoom link tool
4. Start your Zoom meetings via the tool or as you would any meeting
5. Record the meeting to the cloud (external link / opens in new window)
6. Access recordings in Panopto beyond the 30 day Zoom retention period

Add a Zoom Link to your Moodle course

The Moodle Zoom link helps you and your students find and join course meetings. These recordings are copied to your Panopto folder, where they will be stored for at least a year, in accordance with our Panopto Retention Policy. 

1. “Turn Editing on” using the button the top right corner of your Moodle window.
   
2. Click on the plus icon where you want to add  the Zoom link.
   
3. Add Zoom Video Conference from the All or Activities tabs. If you do not see it, you can use the search feature.
   
   
4. Name your activity Zoom with an appropriate name, such as "Course Zoom sessions". Then Save and return to course.
   Note: Many faculty like to hide this Moodle Zoom Link from students—especially when this link is used to get course recordings into the course Panopto folder.
   

Step 2: Set up Zoom sessions for your course

If you wish to use Zoom in your class for either a live synchronous class meeting, student meetings (aka “office hours”), videos for asynchronous use, or anything else, set up sessions using this Moodle Zoom link.

1. Click on the Moodle Zoom link in your course.
   
2. Schedule a New Meeting.
   
3. Start the meeting when you are ready.
   Note: If you make your Moodle Zoom link accessible to your students, they will see an option to Join the meeting, rather than to start the meeting.
   
4. (Optional) Record your Zoom meeting to the cloud.

If recording Zoom videos to the cloud…

Access them in Panopto

If you saved a Zoom session to the cloud, that recording will copy itself into your Panopto course folder. To access it easily, add a Panopto link to course.

1. “Turn Editing on” using the button the top right corner of your Moodle window.
   
2. Click on the plus icon where you want to add  the Zoom link.
   
3. Add Panopto from the All or Activities tabs. If you do not see it, you can use the search feature.
   
    
4. Name your activity as you want students to see it. A name similar to "Course video recordings" works well. Then Save and return to course.
   
5. When you click on your new Panopto link, you will see course Zoom sessions that were saved to the cloud. You can also use any other Panopto features to edit the Zoom recordings, record lectures in Haverford classrooms or anywhere, or upload videos.