Recording your Zoom Meetings

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Last updated: Apr 21, 2020 by Former user (Deleted)Version comment
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Overview

Recording your webinars or parts of your webinar are a great way to share content from your webinars with students.  Not only does this help students who missed the session, but also it helps anyone who had technical issues during the webinar, or needs a copy for detailed review.  

There are two types of recordings, Cloud Recordings, that automatically link to Panopto, or Local Recordings, which are stored on the computer from which you recorded. 

We recommend doing cloud recordings, as this saves you time, but since the video also is sent to our lecture capture system, you and your students can use all of the tools that Panopto provides during playback, such as notes, timed discussion, fully indexed search capabilities, video editing tools, viewing statistics and more.

How To Record

When setting up your meetings you can choose an option to automatically record.  This is a great way to ensure that you regularly record.  If you prefer to record specific portions of your webinar and not everything, you can manually start the recording during your session.  

Automatic Recordings

  1. Open the Zoom desktop App.  On the home tab, press the Schedule button.
  2. Configure your meeting details and scroll down to Advanced Options and expand the menu.
  3. Click record meeting automatically and choose either locally or in the cloud.  As soon as someone joins the meetings, the recording will start.  Keep in mind, if you allow users to join before you, that there may be extra empty content in your recordings (e.g. someone joins 10 minutes early, your video will have 10 extra minutes of no course content).
  4. record zoom meeting automatically option in zoom schedule menu

Create Cloud Recordings

  1. Start your meeting
  2. Click the record button in the toolbar, this will usually be across the bottom of the Zoom webinar window, but if you're in full-screen mode in screen sharing mode it's hidden at the top of the window.
    Zoom Toolbar with the Recording button circled.
  3. In the menu that opens, choose record to the cloud.

During the meeting, you can also pause and stop recordings without stopping the meeting.

How to create Local Recordings

  1. Start your meeting
  2. Click the record button in the toolbar, this will usually be across the bottom of the Zoom webinar window, but if you're in full-screen mode in screen sharing mode it's hidden at the top of the window.
    Zoom Toolbar with the Recording button circled.
  3. In the menu that opens, choose record to the local computer.
  4. Recordings will be located:
    1. PC: C:\Users\User Name\Documents\Zoom
    2. Mac: /Users/User Name/Documents/Zoom
  5. Locate your recording file and upload to Panopto.

During the meeting, you can also pause and stop recordings without stopping the meeting.


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