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Make Zoom Sessions More Interactive (Technical Resource)

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Technical Resource

This resource provides information on how to:

Check for New Zoom Features

The following summarizes the latest and upcoming  Zoom features in each release. Please note that not all released features may be available in our UCLA instance of Zoom, as many features are locked by the admin (main campus). For example,  AI Companion, Zoom Clips, and New meeting chat experience are disabled and will show as “Locked by admin” as of 02/21/2024.

Check and Configure UCLA Zoom Settings

To access and modify your UCLA Zoom account settings, you’ll log into your Zoom web portal.

  1. Go to ucla.zoom.us. 
  2. Click Login.
  3. Sign in with your UCLA Logon ID. (You will be prompted to “Check for a DUO push” to authenticate your sign-in.)

*If you need help setting up DUO, reference this article on how to Activate UCLA Logon MFA.

  1. Click Settings and then click each tab to see which features are available or “Locked by admin.” 
  2. Toggle to enable or disable Zoom features. 

Note: Features locked by admin cannot be enabled from your UCLA Zoom account.

Zoom Settings Sample

In the following image, you can see that the New meeting chat experience [1] and Meeting chat - Auto-save [3] are “Locked by admin” which means that we cannot enable these features unless the UCLA admin unlocks this feature. 

You can also see two features in this image that we can toggle (enable or disable), which are Meeting chat - Direct messages [2] which is enabled, and Sound notification when someone joins or leaves [4] which is disabled. 

Meeting chat - Direct messages feature enabled and Sound notification disabled. 

Enable the Q&A Feature from Your Zoom Web Portal

To use the Q&A feature, you must first enable it in your UCLA Zoom Account Settings (i.e. your Zoom web portal). Once you’ve logged into your settings, follow the instructions from Zoom for Enabling Q&A for Meetings.

  • Once the Q&A feature is enabled in your UCLA Settings, all subsequent meetings you create from Zoom will have this feature enabled. 
  • However, as of 02/21/2024, if you create a Zoom meeting from Canvas LMS, your meeting will not automatically inherit the settings that you enabled. 
  • If you want to export Q&A questions, you can generate a report from your Zoom web portal.
  • *Please note that Q&A reports cannot be found in Canvas; you must generate them from your Zoom web portal.
  •  If you want to use the Q&A feature, we highly recommend you create meetings from your Zoom web portal (ucla.zoom.us) after you have enabled it.

Create Polls, Quizzes, and Surveys from the Zoom Web Portal

We recommend creating Zoom polls, quizzes, and surveys from your Zoom web portal. While there is a feature in Canvas LMS to upload a CSV as a Zoom poll; this integrated feature is very limited and does not provide you with all the options possible that creating polls, quizzes, and surveys from the Zoom web portal does.

Workshop Feature List

The following features were used in the workshop hosted on February 22, 2024. We’ve tried our best to list these features according to how the workshop was planned.

  1. Immersive View
  2. Share Screen (Basic > select the window with your slide show)
  3. Gesture Recognition (holding up your hand and making the emoji hand appear)
  4. The Problem Poll (launch and share results for anonymous Zoom poll)
  5. Q&A feature (enable feature in UCLA Zoom Settings, then configure Q&A options like allowing participants to upvote and comment within the Zoom meeting.)

Participants can submit questions feature, allow anonymous questions feature, and allow participants to view answered questions only feature enabled.

  1. Q&A feature (host makes participants cohosts to answer questions in the Q&A panel)
  2. Zoom Features Survey (Anonymous Zoom Survey with shareable link and the option to “Show in the browser when the meeting ends” selected).
  3. Icebreakers Trivia Game: Famous Landmarks (Anonymous Zoom Quiz)
  4. Quizzing Tools Comparison Chart (This is not a feature, but we wanted to make our chart available; we are also happy to consult on finding the best quizzing tool for your purposes). 
  5. New Zoom Whiteboards in the main room and breakout rooms; browsing Whiteboard templates and saving whiteboards).
  6. Breakout Rooms

Contact Learning Support for Technical Support

For technical assistance, please contact Learning Support at atli@uclaextension.edu or drop-in for a help session. Click Live Support Schedule on our Instructor Resources page to see availability.

*Note click anywhere in the accordion header to open the schedule. 

Live Support Schedule accordion expanded.

UCLA Extension Resources for Zoom

For additional support, please reference our Knowledge Base articles that cover Zoom Web Conferencing.