With Penn State spring graduation fast approaching and upcoming end of semester Zoom events planned, it is important to continue to remain vigilant in learning the steps to keep Zoom meetings safe and to understand why it is critical to refrain from posting links online publicly.
To advertise and promote Zoom events publicly, it is strongly recommended to convert the meeting to a webinar, which will give the host more control over who participates with video, audio, chat, and screen sharing. To convert a meeting into a webinar, the scheduled meeting must use an automatically generated meeting ID and cannot be scheduled with one’s Personal Meeting ID (PMI). Under the Schedule Meeting options, select ‘Generate Automatically’ in the Meeting ID section.
Check out the short 4-minute video on how to take action to secure your meetings.
Additional Zoom training resources, knowledge base articles, and Zoom Office Hours, provided by Penn State IT Learning and Development on Wednesdays from 12-2 p.m. this spring 2021 semester (through May 5), are also available.
Sign up to be notified when registration is available to attend Zoom Security: Take Action to Secure Your Meetings. Participants will learn to update your global settings for increased security, create a secure Zoom meeting, learn about security options available during your meetings, and what to do in the event of a security disruption.
In addition, this knowledge base article on how to report Zoom-bombing incidents, as well as which offices can provide additional support and resources, is available: Zoom: What to do Following a Zoom-Bombing Incident.