Setting Up Your TU Zoom Account
Prior to linking your Zoom account to your Blackboard course for the first time, you will need to activate your TU Zoom account. If you've already logged into Zoom with your TU account, you can skip down to the Configure options.
- Navigate to https://zoom.towson.edu
- Click Sign In
- Enter your TU email and password
- Once you've successfully signed into Zoom, move on to configuring your Blackboard course.
Zoom Course Area
Upcoming Meetings - This is where all of your upcoming scheduled meetings for this course will be listed.
Previous Meetings - You will find all previous meeting sessions for this course listed here.
Cloud Recording - If you have recorded a session for this course, you will find the recordings here.
Please Note: Zoom recordings only stay in the Zoom cloud for 30 days, then are moved to Panopto and deleted. Once they are deleted from the Zoom cloud, it will be up to the professor to share the corresponding Panopto recording.
Join a Meeting
- Navigate to https://blackboard.towson.edu
- Log in with your TU NetID and Password
- Click on your Course
- Click on View Course & Institution Tools on the left-hand menu
- Select Zoom from the list of tools
Please Note: Your instructor may create a Zoom link in the content section of your course. You can also click on this link instead of using the View Course & Institution Tools option
- Click on Upcoming Meetings
- Click the Join button to join the session
Please Note: The join button will not be available until the professor has started the session. If you are early, you may need to wait and refresh the page to see the join button.
Previous Meetings and Cloud Recordings
- Follow steps 1-5 from Join a Meeting
- To view the list of previous meetings, click on Previous Meetings.
- To view the recordings, click on Cloud Recordings
- To view a recording, click on the Session Name in the list of recordings
- Enter the passcode. If you do not have the passcode, contact your instructor.