Add a Zoom link to your PLATO course
FIRST: If you have not signed into your WSU Zoom account follow these steps:
Visit this web site https://westfield-ma.zoom.us/signin and sign in using your WSU Single Sign On (your MyWestfield credentials).
BOOKMARK THIS ADDRESS –It is the quickest way to access Zoom with Single Sign-on
All users can utilize this method, or if you already have a WSU licensed account, where you created a password, you can continue to use it.
To add Zoom to your Plato class follow these steps:
- Click into your course, then click Content on the blue nav bar.
- At the bottom of the left side bar add a new module called “Virtual Office Hours and Meeting Rooms”, “Course Meeting Rooms,” or “Prof. C’s Virtual Office,” etc.
- The link will go right to the bottom of the left sidebar under Week 15. Grab the little arrows to the left of the new link and drag it up to where your Discussion tool is.
- Click into that module on the left sidebar, and click the Existing Activities button and select External Learning Tools.
- Scroll through the list and select Zoom.
- THEN click into that link. That will take you to your Zoom account where you can
Schedule a New Meeting. - It is highly recommended that you set this up as a “recurring meeting” with “No Fixed Time” so it will always be open.
- The Waiting Room Feature is also always recommended.
Students can click the link on the left sidebar, and then join the meeting. If you make it a recurring meeting with no fixed time you don’t have to schedule a new one each week and you won’t have a list of 25 meetings running down the page.
Also, if you would like to add Office Hours to the same room in multiple courses, just schedule the meeting in one class, and copy the meeting link to put in your other classes. That way students can all join your office hours in the same meeting.