New Students, Staff and Faculty
If you are new to the U-M community, it is important that you complete the “First Steps” section below before attending an orientation session or using U-M Zoom for the first time. Even if you are familiar with Zoom, not following these steps will cause you delays in attending your first meetings.
University Community Members New to Using U-M Zoom
If you are already a U-M community member and this is your first time logging into, scheduling or using U-M Zoom, please complete all portions of the “First Steps” section below.
To continue learning about U-M Zoom, we also recommend the Common Tasks page.
First Steps
- Download and Install the Zoom App on Your Device
- Create and Log in to Your U-M Zoom Account
- Migrating Your Zoom Account to U-M Zoom (Follow these steps if you already have a Zoom account tied to your UMICH account email)
- Getting Started with the Zoom for GSuite Add-on (Recommend, but not required)
- Test Your Audio
- Test Your Video
For Participants
- Join a Meeting
- Share Your Screen
- Share Multiple Screens
- Join a Meeting By Phone
- Participating in Breakout Rooms
- Turn on Live Transcription
For Hosts
- Schedule a Meeting
- Record a Meeting (Recordings to the cloud are stored for 180 days)
- Assign a Delegate to Create Meetings in Zoom
- Videoconferencing Captioning Tools for Zoom
- Registration for Meetings
- Polling for Meetings
- Use Breakout Rooms
- Turn on Live Transcription
- Can I Host Concurrent Meetings
Note: It is not possible to host concurrent meetings. Please keep this in mind when scheduling meetings back to back. If the first meeting goes longer than scheduled, the participants of the second meeting will get a message that the host is currently in another meeting.
Zoom for Education
- Adding Zoom To Your Canvas Course
- Adding A Zoom Meeting to Google Calendar from Canvas
- Scheduling in Canvas (video)
- Scheduling and Launching Zoom within Canvas (U-M video)
- Zoom for Students (video)
- Zoom 101: Breakout Rooms (video)
- Zoom 101: Polling (In-meeting) (video)
- Zoom 101: Manage Participants (In-depth) (video)
- Screen Share & Annotation for EDU (video)
- How to use Waiting Rooms to Manage Office Hours & Drop-In Visitor Times (video)