How to Add a Zoom Portal to a BrightSpace Course

Adding a Zoom Portal to a Course

Introduction

Zoom, CUNY’s web-conferencing tool, has been integrated into Brightspace. The integration works with a CUNY-licensed Zoom account only. To claim or verify your CUNY Zoom account, go to https://cuny.zoom.us and click Sign In, to configure your account.

You will be directed to the CUNYfirst login page

2. Enter your CUNYfirst Username.

3. Enter your password and click log in.

Password

4. Click on Enter OTP code device:

Note: If you do not see this prompt skip to next step.

OTP

5. Enter the OTP code from your Microsoft Authenticator app and click verify:

Verify

Once verified, the CUNYfirst website will load.

Note: If you receive a CUNY Login Multi-Factor Authentication Error page during the login process, your CUNY Login MFA is not setup, please follow this article to set it up: Setting Up CUNY Login MFA

Adding a Zoom Portal creates a landing page for Faculty and Students in the course. Faculty can schedule and start meetings from the Zoom Portal. Students can access meetings and view Zoom Cloud recordings from the Zoom Portal.

Getting Started:

Create a new content module:

Add a Module

Give it a proper name (i.e. - "Zoom Link")

Zoom Link

From within the content module in your Brightspace course select Existing Activities, followed by External Learning Tools.

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From the Add Activity window, select Zoom – Queens College.

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A new content topic has been added to the module. Click on the new item to enter the portal.

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Optional: You can update the name and description of the Zoom Portal to include additional information about the External Learning Tool for the students.

To start, click on the Zoom – Queens College caret followed by Edit Properties in Place.

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To edit the name, click on the text Zoom – Queens College to begin renaming the External Learning Tool name. Hit Enter (or Return) on your keyboard to apply changes.

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Click on the Zoom – Queens College LTI 1.1 text to update the description.

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Enter the desired text in the description and click Update when done.