As we continue to conduct the university’s operations remotely, University of Missouri System President Mun Choi encourages anyone hosting Zoom sessions to familiarize themselves with the platform’s best practices. Zoom recently released a guide to Securing Your Classroom. There, you can learn how to lock your virtual classroom, control screen sharing, enable a waiting room, lock down chat sessions, remove participants, and explore security options when scheduling a class. You can also visit Zoom’s post on preventing session crashers.
The following recommendations and recent Zoom updates will help create a more secure environment in your meetings and virtual classrooms.
All UM System students, faculty and staff should create an authenticated account to use Zoom. Visit umsystem.zoom.us to create an authenticated account. Please do not use Zoom as a guest user. To obtain a HIPAA-compliant account for patient privacy, log in at umsystemprotected.zoom.us to authenticate your account. Once you have authenticated your account, you should log in before joining meetings.
Using waiting rooms keeps external users from automatically joining. If you keep the setting enabled, participants can’t join until the host clicks to allow. Meeting hosts can choose to turn off waiting rooms at the time of meeting set up. Read more about managing waiting rooms.
Screen-share default settings in Zoom allow only meeting hosts to share their screen until they click in account settings to allow participants to share if necessary. Learn more about enabling screen share
Read more instructor and meeting host tips for Zoom.
If you experience any form of discrimination – including online or in a virtual classroom – please report the incident to Missouri S&T’s Equity and Title IX office. All members of the university community — as well as visitors and third parties — can report incidents. Incidents do not need to take place on S&T’s campus to be reported.
Read more about instructor and meeting host tips for Zoom.
If you experiences any form of discrimination – including online or in a virtual classroom – please report the incident to Missouri S&T’s Office of Equity and Title IX. All members of the university community — as well as visitors and third parties — can report incidents. Incidents do not need to take place on S&T’s campus to be reported.