Zoom: Record and Share a Presentation

This service is for faculty, staff, and students. 

Zoom allows you to create a recorded group presentation for your course using the webcam on your computers or mobile device. If you are the only person presenting, the best tool to use is Panopto.

How to Start a Zoom recording

  1. Login to your Zoom account at https://stthomas.zoom.us and start a meeting with your group.
  2. When you are ready to begin, press the Record button at the bottom of the screen and select Record to this Computer. (Student accounts can no longer record to the cloud.)
  3. Press Pause or Stop to pause or end the recording.
    Record, pause, stop buttons in Zoom

Presenting

  1. You can deliver your presentation by speaking directly into the webcam or by sharing your screen (including your PowerPoint slides, websites, and more) 
  2. You can also move back and forth between a webcam-only recording and showing a document or PowerPoint presentation using the Share button. 
  3. Click on New Share when you want to share your screen and Stop Share to return to webcam only.stop share
  4. When your group is done recording, click on Stop Recording.
  5. Click on End meeting to exit zoom.

Sharing Your Presentation

After your group has finished recording, the host of the meeting will need to upload the video file to Panopto for easy sharing.
 

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