Using Zoom at Temple University

Click Share in your meeting and choose the screen that you would like to share. Learn more about sharing your screen.

Focus mode gives the host and co-host ability to view everyone without participants seeing each other's videos. The purpose is to minimize distractions while students work on class assignments. This setting also allows the host and co-host the ability to view each participant's shared screen, while each participant will only see their own shared content.

Focus mode can be enabled during a meeting when clicking on "More" and then "Start Focus Mode." To end Focus Mode, click on "More" and then "Stop Focus Mode."

If you would like to turn off the ability to use Focus Mode in your meetings, login at zoom.temple.edu. Click on "Settings" and located "Focus Mode." Toggle the setting off. Moving forward, Focus Mode will no longer appear as an option during your future Zoom meetings.

Learn more about Focus Mode.

Video (3:55): Focus Mode

Zoom allows you to create single choice, multiple choice, or advanced polling questions such as matching, ranked choice, short answer, and long answer options. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting; gather responses from attendees; and, if desired, download a report of polling after the meeting. Polls can also be conducted anonymously. Learn more about Polling in Zoom

There are virtual backgrounds provided by Zoom and by Temple. Check out the backgrounds provided by the CPH Marketing & Communications team which can be found in the CPH section of TUPortal.

Learn more about enabling a virtual background.

Automatic captioning is available to view during a meeting. Learn more about viewing captions

With the increase in hybrid and online classes, Temple is experiencing a major increase in Zoom recording storage. These recordings are large files and our space is limited. We strongly encourage you to review your recordings and delete any that are no longer needed.

Cloud recordings older than 120 days will be deleted for faculty and staff; recordings older than 30 days will be deleted for students. These recordings will be moved into the Zoom trash and permanently deleted after 30 days. If you wish to keep any of these recordings, please download them to your local storage.

All Temple Zoom hosts can record and store recordings either in the cloud or locally to their computer.

• In a Zoom meeting, press Record to start the recording
• To pause a Zoom recording, hover over the bottom of the Zoom window and click on Pause
• By default, local recordings are saved to your documents folder; cloud recordings can be found on the Recording page of your Zoom web portal

To download a recording to your computer, go to zoom.temple.edu

• Click Sign In
• Click Recordings on the left
• Click the More button next to the recording and select Download.

To delete a recording, perform the same steps as above, but click Delete instead of Download. For multiple recordings, you can also click the check boxes on the left and select Delete Selected or Delete All.

Setting up waiting rooms, limiting access to Temple users only, Removing Users, and Locking Meetings are some of the methods that can be used to prevent unauthorized participants from joining your meeting.

• Controlling Access to Zoom Meetings

For faculty, you can use Zoom for online office hours using the waiting room feature to keeping meetings secure.

• Hosting Online Office Hours

Use the steps below to prevent participants from sending private chats to other participants during your meetings.

1. Log into zoom.temple.edu
2. Click on Settings
3. Locate Private Chat
4. Toggle this setting off so that the button is gray

This will prevent participants from chatting with other participants privately during your meetings.

Disable chat if you do not want to allow participants to chat with anyone, even the host:

1. Click on Security
2. Uncheck Chat by clicking on it

If you would like participants to be able to chat with the host only, follow these steps:

1. Click on Chat
2. Click on the three dots
3. Click on Host Only