Zoom Web Conferencing

Overview

Zoom is the recommended conferencing technology available for use at USD. Zoom conferencing is available for use within D2L and is also available for use as a standalone conferencing solution. Zoom allows you to have online meetings with anyone who has an internet connection. You can connect to a meeting in progress, start a new meeting or schedule a future meeting.

Note: As a meeting host, please review Securing Zoom Meetings to prevent Zoombombing.

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Benefits
  • Instructors can use Zoom for class participation and to share information and documents in online meetings
  • All Zoom recordings will be automatically machine captioned
Available To

Zoom is available for USD Faculty, Students and Staff.

Note: When using a Student Basic account, if the meeting exceeds 2 attendees there is a 40-minute time limit. If using a faculty or Licensed account the maximum number of meeting attendees is 300 with no time limit.

Cost

There is currently no cost to use the Zoom service.