Faculty: Start a Zoom meeting from Canvas
If you scheduled your Zoom meeting in Canvas, you can easily start your meeting from your Canvas course. If you did not schedule your meeting in Canvas, or prefer to start your meeting from the Zoom app directly, you don't need to follow these steps.
- From your Canvas Dashboard, click on the course you will be joining via Zoom.
- If you don't see your course on the Dashboard, click Courses, then All Courses to see your full list of active courses. See Canvas' guide How do I customize my Courses list? for information on changing which courses are visible on the Dashboard.
- Click "Zoom" in the navigation menu of your course.
- After the Zoom page loads, you should see an "Upcoming Meetings" tab with the list of Zoom sessions for your course. Click the "Start" button next to the correct session.
- Your browser may pop-up a window asking you to confirm that you want to allow Zoom to open; click "Open Zoom Meetings" to continue.
- To avoid this message in the future, you can also check the box next to "Always allow nelboston.zoom.us to open links of this type in the associated app".
- If you do not see this pop-up and Zoom does not open, check your browser to see if pop-ups are being blocked. The steps for how to do this vary by browser, but many modern browsers indicate this with an icon in the address bar that shows what page you're on.
- The Zoom application should open on your computer and take you into your meeting. From this point, Zoom should function the same as it does when not using Canvas to schedule meetings.