What's the difference between a Zoom Room/Office and a Meeting?

In your Zoom profile Links to an external site., you have a personal meeting ID and a personal link. Both of these go to the exact same “Zoom room.” Think of it as your “Zoom office.” 

Rather than meet in your office, you can meet somewhere else. Think of it as a Zoom conference room or class room. When you go to the Meetings link in Zoom or Canvas, and create a new meeting, Zoom generates a Zoom conference room for you with a brand new room number (room address). Just like on campus, you’ll only stay in that room as long as your meeting takes place. After that, the room disappears. (Okay, that’s different than our on-campus conference rooms.)

Which do I use?

Some instructors use their personal meeting ID for everything - classes, meetings, office hours, etc. This is simpler, because you (and your students) always know what room to go to. 

Others use their personal meeting ID for meetings and office hours, but create different rooms for each of the classes they teach. This is a little more to keep track of, but makes it harder for someone to drop in to the wrong space at the wrong time, or to disrupt a class. It also allows you to have recordings of Zoom classes go directly into the correct Canvas shell. 

How do people know where to go?

Regardless of the approach you choose, your students or meeting attendees need to know where to connect. You'll send them the Zoom URL for the meeting. It'll look something like https://highline.zoom.us/j/yourMeetingID Links to an external site..