Before recording, let your participants know that you are recording and what you plan to do with the recording. For a class, it's a good idea to state this in your Syllabus, and ask students to contact you with concerns.

Start the recording

Zoom toolbar with record icon circled

Next, click the record button and always select "Record on this computer." Our contract with Zoom gives us a tiny, tiny amount of recording space in their "cloud;" not enough to do anything with. (Local recording instructions.)

End the recording

In the top left corner of the Zoom screen, click on the stop recording button. When you close your Zoom room, Zoom will automatically download the recording to your computer. You can find it in a new folder called Zoom. All of the files associated with the recording will be stored in a new folder named with the date and time of the recording and the name of the meeting room.

What to do with the recording

The video recording file will be an mp4.

Option 1. Probably the easiest way to share this mp4 recording with students is to upload it to Google Drive, and link to it from a Canvas course.

Go to https://drive.highline.edu.
Log in with your regular Highline email and password.
Create a new folder for your class.
On your computer, rename the file by clicking once on the file name. Change it to the date of the class.
Copy it to the folder in Google Drive. On most computers, you can drag the recording file onto the web page for your Google Drive.
Share the file so that anyone can access the file.
Get the sharing link. Place it in your Canvas course, in the module for the week of that class.

Option 2. Probably the second easiest way is to upload the mp4 recording to Panopto.

Connect Panopto to Canvas.
In your Canvas course, click on Panopto Recordings.
Click the Create button, and select Upload media.
Add your mp4 file.
You can embed the recording in any Canvas page, discussion, assignment, announcement, etc. by clicking on the Panopto icon.

Rich text editor in Canvas