Zoom Web Conferencing
Zoom is a web conferencing tool available to all University of Maine System students, faculty, and staff. Zoom provides high-quality audio and video, intuitive sharing and co-annotation tools, breakout rooms, white-boarding tools, the ability to easily add content to a meeting on the fly, and the option to download meeting recordings as MP4 files. Zoom has apps for all platforms, including fully featured iOS and Android apps. In addition, it is possible to dial into Zoom meetings from Polycom-equipped meeting rooms. You can access Zoom by going to maine.zoom.us or by using the LaunchPad Zoom icon in the UMaine myCampus Portal.
To get started there are a variety of materials available to you:
- UMS Zoom FAQS: https://gojira.its.maine.edu/confluence/display/ZOOM/Zoom+Implementation+FAQ
- UMS Zoom Training and Support Resources: https://gojira.its.maine.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=63681987
- UMS Academy contains training videos for Zoom
- Zoom also has a wealth of documentation that is regularly updated: https://support.zoom.us