Scheduling a Zoom Meeting through Google Calendar

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Scheduling a Zoom meeting through Canvas is an excellent way to meet with all the students in your course. However, what’s the best way to meet with a single student when you want to ensure nobody else can join the call? 

Enter scheduling your Zoom meetings through Google Calendar. With a simple add-on, you can create a meeting through Google Calendar and set it to launch a Zoom meeting. 

Installing the add-on

1. Go to Zoom for GSuite
2. Click the “Install” button
3. If you have multiple Google accounts, it will ask you to confirm which account you want to use. Make sure you select your Cedarville account. 
4. Give Zoom for Google Calendar access to your Google Account by clicking “Allow” 

You’ll see a message letting you know that the add-on has been installed. 

Scheduling a Zoom meeting

1. Go to Google calendar
2. Click the “create” button
3. Fill in your meeting title and day/time
4. Click the “Add rooms, location, or conferencing” line to expand the options
5. Click “Add conferencing” and select “Zoom meeting.”
   The first time you add a Zoom meeting, Google will ask for access to your Zoom account so that it can add the meeting information. Allow it to do so!
6. Click “Save” 

Joining the meeting

When it’s time to join the meeting, you and your student would just go to the meeting information on Google calendar and click the “Join Zoom Meeting” link. 

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