Getting Started with U-M Zoom

U-M Zoom accounts are available to all active faculty, staff, and students on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses and Michigan Medicine. Alumni, retirees, and non-UM participants can attend Zoom meetings without a university account but cannot host or initiate U-M Zoom meetings.

Create a U-M Zoom Account

U-M Zoom accounts are created automatically the first time you log in. 

1. Go to zoom.umich.edu.
2. Click Sign in and log in with U-M Weblogin when prompted.

Note: If you are already logged into U-M Weblogin via your browser, you will be taken directly to your U-M Zoom account.

After creating your account, we recommend downloading and installing the Zoom desktop app for the best experience. You can also connect Zoom to your U-M Google Calendar to schedule meetings easily.

To continue learning about U-M Zoom, we recommend reviewing the Participating in Meetings and Webinars and Hosting Meetings and Webinars pages.

Zoom for Teaching

Zoom can be part of your instructional toolkit using the Zoom integration in Canvas. The integration works the same regardless of whether it is used through Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint Canvas.

Refer to the following documentation for more information on using the Zoom integration in Canvas:

• Adding a File with Poll Questions to a Zoom Course Meeting in Canvas
• Attendance and Poll Reports for Zoom in Canvas
• Sharing a Zoom Meeting Recording with Students in Canvas
• Pre-Assigning Breakout Rooms for Zoom in Canvas
• Zoom Attendance Reports to Gradebook in Canvas

Tips for student engagement during remote classes

• Use breakout rooms for small discussions or group work time.
  • Zoom Support: Managing meeting breakout rooms
  • Allow students to self-select breakout rooms and move freely between rooms
  • Pre-assigning breakout rooms
• Instruct students to raise their hands using the nonverbal feedback options.
  • Participants with raised hands will show at the top of the Participants list, and they will be visually moved to the beginning of your Grid view in the order in which they raised their hands. Use this order to call on students, and lower their hands after they've finished speaking.
• Use polls for formative assessment checks and/or to gather student feedback. Learn more about enabling and launching polls.
• Ask students to use the nonverbal feedback options to provide yes/no answers, tell you to slow down, etc.
• Share your screen and co-annotate with students using the classic whiteboard feature (the new Whiteboard feature is unavailable) or on any shared screen.
• Create and share Google Docs or Slides during the meeting to allow the class or student groups to synchronously co-create content.
  • LSA Technology Services: How to Screen Share Slides Without Students Seeing Your Notes​
• GSIs and IAs can be co-hosts of the meeting to help you manage the classroom, admit students from the waiting room, assist students in breakout rooms, and more.
• Zoom meetings can accommodate up to 300 participants. If your class has more than 300 students, you must request a Zoom webinar license.
  • Both meetings and webinars include a Q&A feature to collect questions from your class and display answers to all students.
  • Zoom Webinars do not have a breakout room feature.
  • Learn more about the differences between meetings and webinar.

Additional Resources

• U-M ITS Knowledge Base
• Zoom Support
• You can also refer to Participating in Meetings and Webinars, Hosting Meetings and Webinars, and How to Secure Meetings.