For easy access to your individual Zoom account, enable My FSU Zoom on your Canvas course's navigation menu. This will also give your students access to their individual Zoom accounts.
We recommend switching this setting on If you will not be having any guest (non-FSU) lecturers speak to your class, so that only authenticated Zoom users can join your meetings. When you schedule your course meetings in Canvas, you will have the option to further restrict your meetings to FSU users only (your students will have to login to their FSU Zoom account; they will not be able to join your meetings anonymously or using a personal, non-FSU-affiliated Zoom account).
If you will have some guest speakers who do not have Zoom accounts, then do not switch on this setting in your account. Instead, switch this setting on for individual meetings in your Canvas course that will not feature guest speakers. You will not be able to restrict your individual course meetings to FSU users only.
If you have a student whose ADA accommodations include providing live captions, be sure to follow these directions from the Office of Accessibility Services within either your individual meetings, or within your account settings if you do not want to configure this for each course meeting.
This will help to keep your meeting from accidentally being hijacked by your students, or crashing for you and your students because there are too many webcams active in the meeting. You can always allow meeting participants to "unmute" themselves as needed once you have started your Zoom meeting.
If you are concerned about students hijacking your Zoom session, you can opt to only allow the host to share their screen, and then manually allow participants to share their screens once you have started your Zoom sessions.
Join different meetings simultaneously on desktop: On. This setting is optional, but if you will have more than one meeting scheduled at the same time in your course, then we recommend that you and your TAs switch on this setting in your Zoom accounts to avoid any hiccups. This setting is most useful if you are teaching a large course and instead of using breakout rooms you opt to divide your students up into smaller groups that will have separate meetings led by you and your TAs. This may also be helpful if you will be hosting back-to-back meetings.
Keep in mind: after switching this setting on, you will need to restart your computer in order for the Zoom desktop client to honor this setting change.