​Course Set Up: Getting Ready for Live Sessions

Allison McComb Updated by Allison McComb

Course Set Up: Getting Ready for Live Sessions

After you have successfully set up your Zoom account (here is an article on how to do this if you need a refresher!), please do the following steps to ensure success in your Live Session:

  1. Change your background to a Cornell-branded background.   
  2. Test your camera and microphone. View Zoom’s "Testing audio before Zoom Meetings" instructions
  3. Adjust Settings to enable a Waiting Room for all participants. Specify that only hosts and co-hosts may admit participants. View Zoom’s “Using a Waiting Room” instructions if needed. 
  4. Please ensure to enable sound notifications (located in settings) for when participants enters the waiting room
  5. Adjust Settings to enable Breakout rooms. Specify that the host may view activity statuses of participants in breakout rooms. 
Best Practice Tip: Start a meeting and locate or practice doing the following
  1. Turning on and off your own camera and microphone.
  2. How to mute a participant (in a meeting with no participants you won’t be able to practice this action). View Zoom’s “Muting/Unmuting Participants” instructions if needed. 
  3. Sharing your screen or sharing a single window. 
  4. Creating 3 breakout rooms with participants automatically assigned.

Tools and Templates:

Our goal for each Live Session is to deliver a premium experience that maximizes student engagement. We design our courses with high standards, and it’s important that those standards are reflected in Live Sessions. 

We have several resources that you may find helpful in setting up your live sessions:

This article contains links to some additional Zoom features we recommend you familiarize yourself with.

How did we do?

Recording and Posting a Welcome Video

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