Best Practices for Teacher Zoom Authentication Settings
This short article provides you two best practice tips we are recommending for all teachers to set on their Zoom account and Zoom meetings to protect you from outside users joining your meetings.
If you go to the Zoom webpage (psd401.zoom.us) or click on the Zoom button in the PSD portal, you will be able to get into your personal settings. In your personal settings, please make sure that your authentication settings are set up to match the image below:
These are global settings, but you will also want to make sure you always check your per-meeting settings as well. When you create a new meeting (or modify an existing meeting) please ensure that the following option is checked as well for all meetings involving students and PSD staff.
If you use a Personal Meeting Room for any meetings, also check that it is set there, by going to Meetings and then "Personal Room" and "Edit".
And check the "only authenticated users can join", as you would with the other meetings.
This setting may be a problem for parent-teacher conferences though, or meetings where you have outside of PSD guests, so it is ok to turn this off for a very specific meeting where you are expecting outside guests, just keep a close eye on the waiting room and don't let in anyone you don't know.