Online Teaching with ZOOM
Welcome back to school. Most Hong Kong students may have already been using some kind of online learning tools since the pandemic. In HKUST, we are using ZOOM as the basic online teaching platform. In this article, we shall try to provide some introduction to new students and some revision to existing students about learning with ZOOM in HKUST.
Students - Preparing your Zoom platform
New students may want to note that most HKUST online classes will require students to properly install and sign-in their ZOOM with HKUST account before they can join the online classes. For more details, please refer to our Student Guide - Getting Prepared using ZOOM for online classes in 2020 Fall. Existing students may also want to check and update their ZOOM client software to the latest version before semester begins.
Students are advised to join their ZOOM online classes through their corresponding Canvas course site.
Good Practice for Instructors
CEI has consolidated some best practices for preparing, hosting and after class materials. Interested colleagues may want to check on Good Practices for Instructors teaching with Zoom.
For All users
Starting 27-September 2020, ZOOM will implement new protection requirement on all paid ZOOM customers, including HKUST. To cope with this new protection requirement, HKUST will implement new protection requirement:
- Starting 27-August 2020, all newly scheduled ZOOM meeting will needs to be protected by Meeting Passcode. Meeting Passcode will be generated automatically when scheduled a meeting. The passcode can also be modify or changed by the host as needed
- By 22-September 2020, all scheduled ZOOM meeting, including already scheduled one, must be protected by Meeting Passcode. Meeting hosts are advise to revise their scheduled meetings before this deadline by assigning meeting passcode and communicate with their meeting participants.
- Students joining their courses through Canvas course site will not be affected by this new protection requirement.