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Zoom Workshop Sessions for Faculty (Fall 2022)

Faculty Zoom Workshop Schedule

All sessions are hands-on and conducted online in CTLET Blackboard organization using Bb Collaborate.
No registration is required.  Pick the topic and date/time listed below, come to the session via CTLET Bb organization.

CTLET Blackboard organization

Zoom Basics (1 hour) 

This session is for those who have never hosted a Zoom meeting before.

Date/Time: Thursday, 8/18 @11 am; Tuesday, 8/23 @1 pm; Thursday, 9/1 @3 pm

After completing this session, participants will be able to:

  • Download Zoom app to the desktop and associate it with CUNY Zoom 
  • Identify the appropriate basic settings for Zoom meetings
  • Create a Zoom meeting session and send the session invite to students  
  • Conduct a Zoom meeting with basic features including audio, video, screen sharing, whiteboard and chat 
  • Record a Zoom meeting and access the recording
  • Access and download session attendance

Zoom Accessibility (30 min) 

Prerequisite: Zoom Basics 

Date/Time: Thursday, 8/25 @10 am; Monday, 8/29 @3 pm

After completing this session, participants will be able to: 

  • Enable the auto-generated live transcript/closed caption for a Zoom session 
  • Set the properties of live transcript/closed caption 

Using Polling for Better Engagement (30 min) 

Prerequisite: Zoom Basics

Date/Time: Friday, 8/26 @10 am; Tuesday, 8/30 @3 pm 

After completing this session, participants will be able to: 

  • Enable polling in the Zoom settings 
  • Conduct polling 
  • Access and download polling results 

Using Breakout Rooms for Student-Student Interactions (30 min) 

Prerequisite: Zoom Basics 

Date/Time: Friday, 8/26 @3 pm; Wednesday, 8/31 @10 am 

  • After completing this session, participants will be able to: 
  • Enable breakout rooms in the Zoom settings 
  • Randomly assign students to breakout rooms
  •  Manually assign students to breakout rooms 
  • Pre-assign students to breakout rooms 

Unable to attend the Zoom sessions? check out our Zoom Tutorials.