1. Create a Zoom account.
You may have been given an account during the Covid lockdown last year. You can of course create your own. Zoom is free. Use your NMIT email as part of the signup process as the zoom artefact links will be emailed to you.
2. When you have an account. Check/ change your settings
Sign in. If Zoom does not take you to your settings page, click on your account in the top right-hand corner to get this page your profile page.
Click on Recordings
This space becomes a repository for all the recordings that you make in the future.
While on the recordings page, look across to the top right-hand side of the page and click on Settings. This is a different settings space to the section below recordings
Once you have clicked on settings this tab appears
On the tab menu on the top of the screen click on Recording
Scroll down to Advance cloud settings
And click into the Audio transcript box
Click the Save button just underneath
This allows you to have a transcript available down the side of your zoom artefact
3. Getting ready to start your zoom
When you have made changes to your settings click on Host a meeting with Video on.
There are other options there, video off and share screen only. However, research shows that learners like to feel ‘connected to their tutor and therefore for the first few initial meetings the learners get to see you, all be it briefly. They feel connected and start to identify ‘he wears glasses like I do’ “ I do like the way she has her fringe cut’.
It is advisable to check your audio settings as well to make sure your headset works.
If you are walking your learners through any documents have the documentation ready to activate. This may be on a second screen, or underneath your zoom window.
4. Getting ready to start
Click the Record button
This option offers you two choices.
Record on this computer. If you chose this option your Zoom will be recorded and will automatically save into your documents folder. Zoom automatically creates its own folder inside your documents and stores each Zoom as per the date and time.
Inside each folder is an audio recording and a MPEG 4 movie recording. These are useful to upload and add to your Moodle pages. However, they do not have the transcript attached.
Record to the cloud. This option means zoom will send you a link to your artefact. That link contains the transcript.
5. The transcript
Transcript in playback mode for the learners
The transcript sits on the right-hand side of your zoom window and scrolls through as your zoom presentation runs through much like a You Tube video. This provides your learners with a verbal and written option. There is a slight glitch in that the transcript is not always 100% perfect if you do not speak clearly.
In this first example.
Kia ora and a warm welcome from sunny Blenheim today….
The second example
6. Ready to go. Recording.
Click on Host a meeting with video on.
Position your camera.
Click on Record and Record to the cloud or Alt C
The moment you click 'record' your Zoom is live and you will see the recording clock on the top left-hand side of your screen pulsing. Your zoom is being recorded.
You have pause and stop functions.
Click on Share Screen and bring the documents you wish to talk about. You could just be making a general welcome video.
On completion, click the 'stop recording' square button and then End and End meeting for all.
Your artefact will be emailed to you to share with your learners.
The URL can be uploaded to Moodle into your course.
7. Options
As stated before you can record to your computer and use the MPEG4 movie file and or the audio file to add to your Moodle course.
Last modified: Thursday, 1 July 2021, 8:36 AM