Securing Zoom
Best Practices for Securing your Zoom Virtual Classrooms
Zoom has been drawing attention for several potential privacy and security issues. To address some of these concerns, Zoom has made available some best practices for securing your Zoom video conferencing sessions:
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Password-protect the classroom : Create a password and share with your students via school email so only those intended to join can access a virtual classroom.
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Enable the Waiting Room feature : The Waiting Room feature is one of the best ways to protect your Zoom virtual classroom and keep out those who aren’t supposed to be there.
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Use a random meeting ID : It’s best practice to generate a random meeting ID for your class, so it can’t be shared multiple times. Don’t use your Personal Meeting ID for the meeting.
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Require registration : This shows you every email address of everyone who signed up to join your class and can help you evaluate who’s attending.
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Allow only authenticated users to join : Checking this box means only members of your school who are signed into their Zoom account can access this particular class.
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Disable join before host : Students cannot join class before the teacher joins and will see a pop-up that says, “The meeting is waiting for the host to join.“
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Manage annotation: Teachers should disable participant annotation in the screen sharing controls to prevent students from annotating on a shared screen and disrupting class.