Participants should only be admitted from the waiting room if the host is fully confident that they should be in the meeting – normally this is only external guests from outside of the University who have been explicitly invited. However, there is no way to know whether this participant is using their real name, is part of the unit of study or even if they are a student studying at Bath. The host can choose to admit the user(s) to the meeting. The host will receive a pop-up notification telling them that somebody is in the waiting room. University of Bath students should be logging in to sessions using their Bath IT credentials (via SSO).
The procedure for setting up a Zoom meeting through Moodle has changed for the 2021-22 academic year. Further, meetings added via Moodle will automatically be added to the External tools activity block. The settings will "flow" back down to Moodle (however, please see our FAQ on recurring meetings). If you need to change the meeting settings after scheduling, we would recommend doing this on Zoom's website. This ensures that students will have a single and consistent place to go to find their meeting links, and also saves the need to share meeting links with them individually. The option to schedule a meeting for your Unit cohort, or a sub-group of the cohort, is possible from within Moodle, using the Zoom meeting activity. Please note, if you are using the Moodle Scheduling tool to schedule your meetings (recommended option), then please FIRST log into Zoom desktop or web client via SSO to create your account.