Recording and Uploading Zoom Sessions

Before Recording

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. 

Zoom settings Links to an external site. to consider:

  • "Display participants' names in the recording." Uncheck this box so that names do not appear in the recording. Zoom settings Links to an external site. --> Settings --> Recording tab --> Cloud recording section. (While this is in the cloud recording section, this setting applies to all recordings.)

 

If you are using your Zoom office (Personal Meeting ID)

Note: you cannot automatically post recordings to Panopto if you're using your Zoom office.

Start the Recording

To start the recording, find the record button.  Depending on the size of your window, you may need to click on the "three dots" icon to expand the options on your Zoom toolbar:

Screenshot of the record buttons in the Zoom toolbar.   

If given the option to record to the cloud or record locally, choose record locally

End the Recording

In the top left corner of the Zoom screen, click on the stop recording button:

Screenshot of the recording button in Zoom

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 local recording

The video recording file will be an mp4.

Option 1. One option for sharing this mp4 recording with students is to upload the mp4 recording to Panopto. 

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

    Screenshot of the Panopto embed icon in the new RCE in Canvas.

  6. You can even add automatic captions Links to an external site. to your mp4 once the video has finished processing in Panopto.  Be patient.  Sometimes it takes a bit of time to finish processing.

 

Option 2: Another option for sharing this mp4 recording with students is to upload it to Google Drive, and link to it from a Canvas course.   There are a lot of steps, but it's easy.  You can do it!

  1. Go to https://drive.highline.edu.
  2. Log in with your regular Highline email and password.
  3. Create a new folder for your class. 
  4. On your computer, rename the file by clicking once on the file name. Change it to the date of the class. 
  5. 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. 
  6. Share the file so that anyone can access the file. 
  7. Get the sharing link. Place it in your Canvas course, in the module for the week of that class. 

If you are using a class-specific Zoom meetings

We recommend using the Canvas/Zoom/Panopto integration. To learn more, see Using the Zoom-Panopto integration.