Secure Your Meetings
Unfortunately, “Zoombombings” and other unwelcome intrusions continue to impact meetings at VCU and worldwide. To summarize the many security options available to you as a meeting host, we’ve created this video guide to help you keep your meetings safe: In brief, consider employing as many options as practical when securing your meetings: Additionally, in our […]
Using the Zoom Web App
The Zoom Web App provides an alternative method for hosting and joining Zoom meetings when the desktop client may be unavailable. This can be useful if you’re having difficulties with the installed client or if you find yourself using a device where you lack the necessary administrator rights to install Zoom. When you log in […]
Update Your Chrome Scheduler Extension
As related in the previous post, Zoom has published an update to their Chrome Scheduler Extension for use with Google Calendar. This was originally scheduled for November but seems to have occurred on Dec. 14. There were some initial difficulties with the application, preventing users from accessing the “Make It A Zoom Meeting” option when […]
Temporary outage for VPN users (resolved)
Some users of VCU Zoom (and various other applications) may have experienced difficulty this morning accessing their accounts. The issue should only have affected off-campus users who were logged into the VPN client while attempting to access applications that rely on the Central Authentication Service. Anyone not on the VPN when logging in at vcu.zoom.us […]
Regarding August 24th Service Disruption
Zoom has issued this statement regarding the service disruption experienced on the morning of August 24: Dear Valued Zoom Customer, As you may know, at 4:56 am PDT today, August 24, Zoom experienced a partial disruption of our Meeting, Webinar, and website services. We largely restored service by 8:26 am PDT. We have determined that […]
A Note About Calendar Integration
It looks like the upgrade to Zoom 5.0 is disabling the integration with Google Calendar temporarily and requiring users to re-authorize the connection. If you’re no longer able to schedule Zoom meetings through Calendar, check your browser for a small round icon with an exclamation point, just to the right of the browser address bar. […]