A new semester is approaching, and whether you are teaching in-person, online or hybrid, it’s time to review what’s new in the eLearning toolset at Ohio State.
You can now add pronouns to your display name in CarmenZoom and make them visible across all your meetings, if desired. In order to use this feature, you must be using Zoom version 5.7.0 or newer, and you must be logged in to your CarmenZoom account.
Zoom has been a critical tool in our daily lives this past year; from virtual classes and student activities to checking in with family and friends, we rely on Zoom to keep us connected. Naturally, no one wants those moments of connection disrupted by unwanted visitors or inappropriate behavior...
We previously announced that the Zoom cloud retention rate would change from 270 days to 120 days beginning December 18. However, we have managed to extend the date of that change to February 5, 2021 .
While you are preparing for the upcoming spring semester, you will notice a few feature enhancements and changes within the learning management system. The most prominent change will be the new Rich Content Editor (RCE), which has been available to test since February 2020. Along with this change, we will be enabling enhancements for student assignments and there will be slight changes to the Gradebook and the Upload/Record Media button in the RCE.
In order to make better use of resources, we have made a change to the default settings for Zoom cloud recordings. Previously, if you recorded a meeting where two or more people had their camera on, Zoom would have recorded both the speaker view and the gallery view. If you had not changed your...
Meeting transcripts can be very useful—they make your meetings more accessible and help all participants look back on what was said and get caught up in the conversation. Zoom already had an option for “live” transcriptions, but they required a participant in the meeting to type captions as the...
In an effort to increase security and privacy for the Ohio State community, all CarmenZoom meetings and webinars will require a passcode beginning July 30. In addition to adding passcodes to all meetings, we will prevent users from turning off the passcode going forward.
Keeping your Zoom app up to date on personal devices will keep you current with security patches released by Zoom, and sticking with the default settings chosen by Ohio State is the best (and easiest) way to keep unwanted guests out of your meetings. In particular, it is important to keep the required password setting ON.
