Zoom in Moodle for Faculty

Faculty can add Zoom meetings to their Moodle classrooms. A Zoom meeting allows real-time video conferencing between individuals or small groups. A few things to know about Zoom here at GCC:

• If you have a Zoom account set up using your GCC email, Zoom will ask you to switch your accounts. This may result in loss of your settings or recordings!
• Faculty add Zoom meetings to their classroom by adding an "External tool" then choosing "Zoom" under the "Preconfigured tool" menu.

Once you name and create the link to the Zoom meeting page, you can schedule multiple meetings on the page. Follow the recommendations on the "Common Zoom Settings" page in this classroom.

• Your Zoom meetings can be 30 minutes long (this is not exactly true, but for planning purposes, it is safe).
• All users (both faculty and students) must have the Zoom client installed on their computer to access the meeting.
• Users can join with the mobile app, but they have fewer options for screen sharing, recording, and using other features.
• All users must have a web camera installed and configured if they want to join to the video conference.
• Faculty who record Zoom meetings can then upload them to YouTube and make them available in their Moodle classrooms after editing the closed captions.

If you see an ?API error,? please submit a help ticket immediately. This is an easy fix, but there is nothing you can do that will get Zoom working in your Moodle course until we fix it!


Zoom has an excellent collection of video tutorials on their Zoom Video Tutorialspage. All users, both faculty and students, must install the Zoom client before using Zoom in GCC's Moodle classrooms. Look for "Zoom Client for Meetings" on Zoom's Download Center.

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