Zoom allows you to restrict access to your meetings and allow only Brookes students (i.e. with Brookes Zoom accounts) to access them. This can help you prevent people outside Brookes to access your meetings and cause disruption.
We recommend enabling authentication if you pre-assign students to breakout rooms in order for Zoom to be able to match the student number you pre-assigned with the Zoom account that the student has used to join the meeting.
I have pre-assigned Brookes students to breakout rooms
When you schedule your meeting in Moodle:
- Tick the box next to Require authentication to join.
- In the dropdown menu, select Need to be signed in to Brookes Zoom account.
Important
When you have authentication enabled in your meetings, it will prevent users from joining the meeting if they don’t log in with their Brookes Zoom account. Share this video with your students that shows them step by step how to log in to Zoom correctly: Joining Zoom lectures (opens in new tab).
I have invited a guest speaker to my Brookes lecture
When you schedule your meeting, don’t tick the box next to Require authentication to join.
I have a meeting only with people external to Brookes
When you schedule your meeting, don’t tick the box next to Require authentication to join.