restrict Zoom meeting access by section

[cbaribault]

Dear All,

My use case appears to be entirely out of the scope of Canvas design. Please read on.

My team runs a 2-hour workshop via externally created Zoom meeting from pages in Canvas on two consecutive days every Fall and Spring semesters with each day corresponding to a separate section of attendees.

Also, I do not delete previous sections of attendees in order to provide those attendees with access to the ongoing updates to course material.

I'd like to restrict Zoom meeting access to only those in the appropriate Canvas section, which I could not currently do if I were to create the Zoom meeting within Canvas.

Otherwise, I'd like to include the Zoom meeting link in an announcement to the appropriate section to be posted on the day before as well as the day of the given meeting.

Thanks for reading.

Best,

CB

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi @cbaribault 

Zoom itself doesn't really have any concept of "course sections", and if you have Zoom integrated with Canvas and generate the Zoom meetings through the Canvas link, then the meeting times will be added to the Canvas course calendar, and are also associated with the course when students access to Zoom link in Canvas.

Your best bet is to log directly into Zoom and create two separate meetings, then manually post the meeting links in Canvas (though a section-specific announcement, most likely) so that only students in that section can see it.

[cbaribault]

Hi @mzimmerman,

Thanks for your reply, and I've used your suggested "best bet" approach in the past for previous workshops.

Nonetheless, allow me to restate the following inconvenience and duplication - as a consequence of "best bet" being my only option - in my original post.

As I would prefer, in order to post the meeting link on both 1) the day before as well as 2) the day of a given meeting, I've had to (and will continue to) generate a separate, duplicate announcement for each meeting - since the date picker under "Announcements -> Create new -> Options -> Delay posting -> Post At" only allows selection of a single date per new announcement. (Also, I see no option to repost an announcement once it has been posted.)

Otherwise, if said date picker were to allow me to select two dates (multi-select) to post the same announcement, then there would be no need for me to generate a separate, duplicate announcement for each meeting.

Thanks again for reading.

[mzimmerman]

Hi @cbaribault 

Sorry for the confusion.  I thought that you had a question about how to set up Zoom meetings that were available only to specific sections, rather than a complaint about the need to post two announcements on consecutive days.