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Equipment Required:

  • PC or Mac
  • Earphones/Headphones

Lecturers will have configured sessions differently. Most will not require you to have a microphone or camera. Should you be joining a session that allows web camera and microphone for your participation, you are strongly recommended to use headphones or earphones and not the speakers of your computer. If your microphone picks up the audio from your speakers, this will result in an audio feedback loop and echo and/or disruptive audio feedback for your fellow students.

1. Finding the Zoom Meeting

If your class is using Zoom to provide lectures, seminars/tutorials or one-to-one meetings, access to these will be provided to you through a link in your class Myplace page. Eg:

2. Joining

Clicking on this link will present you with details of the "Meeting" (lecture, seminar or tutorial) with a button displayed for you to click to join:

3. Zoom - the First Time You Join a Meeting

The first time that you join a Zoom meeting on your computer, you need to run and install a small piece of software. Depending on your browser (FireFox, Chrome, Edge, Safari etc), this should look something like this:

4. Install the Software

When downloaded, find the download and run it to set up Zoom. The downloaded file should look like this:

When the software is installing, you will see a progress bar on your screen:

You may be asked to allow the software permission to install:



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