Introduction
Zoom is the perfect tool to facilitate virtual (or online) office hours. Blackboard’s latest Zoom integration allows you to create and manage Zoom appointments right from your course. This tutorial covers how to add Zoom appointments through the Blackboard Zoom integration.
Setting up Zoom Appointments
- Log in to your Blackboard account and navigate to the course you wish to add a Zoom appointment to.
- Add Zoom Pro to your Ultra course by Clicking the Purple +, choosing Content Market, and clicking the + next to Zoom Pro
- Click on Zoom Pro in your Course Content Menu
4. Click on the Appointments Tab
5, Click on Create Schedule
6. Configure your appointment schedule.
Enter the details for the Zoom appointment, including the day(s) of availability, duration, name, and description. Once the details are entered, click Create. Please note: This must be done on a per course basis. If you want to setup office hours for each of your courses, you must do this in each section.
7. Edit or Delete your appointment schedule.
The event will show up in the Zoom area under appointments. You can edit or delete it at any time.
8. Managing appointments
Once students schedule appointments, instructors will receive an email confirmation. All upcoming appointments can also be seen in the Zoom integration in Blackboard under the appointments and upcoming events tabs. Meetings can be started directly from here but will also appear in the Zoom desktop app. Please Note: appointments will not automatically populate to your Outlook calendar and must be added manually.
How Students Schedule a Zoom Appointment
1, Students will go to Zoom in their Blackboard course like they usually do. Then, they will click the Appointments tab. They will see the bookable appointment schedule.
2, Students will see a schedule of available times based on the created schedule by the instructor
3, Students will select the date and time that works for them and then click Book.
4. Appointments will immediately by removed from the calendar once booked.
5. Email Confirmation
Once the meeting is scheduled, the student and instructor will both receive an email confirmation with the date, time, and Zoom link to use.
Please Note: appointments will not automatically populate to your Outlook calendar and will need to be added manually. You can always find the information within Blackboard or the Zoom desktop app.
6. Other than the email confirmation, both the instructor and the student can see the meetings in the Upcoming Events tab within the Zoom appointments area in Blackboard. They can use this tab to Start or Join the meeting, respectively.