You may record your Zoom session so that you can share the video with others after the meeting has ended. Students may benefit from a recording of sessions if they want to review content later, have a documented accommodation, or if they cannot attend due to internet access issues or illness.
This page will cover the following topics:
- Recordings & Privacy Expectations
- Recording your meetings and finding recordings
- Sharing your recording
Recordings & Privacy Expectations
If you will be recording your Zoom sessions, you will want to make sure that your use of recordings complies with BC’s Classroom Recording Guidance. This includes making sure that students are made aware of the fact that classes will be recorded. If you would like to add language to your syllabus about your recording policy, you can find sample language on our Sample Syllabus Statements page.
If students are uncomfortable being recorded, you may want to let them know that they can turn their video and/or microphone off and encourage them to participate through other means, like the chat box. You can also record the session while in “Speaker View” and pin your own video so that students’ videos are not recorded. See more information about video layouts during recording on Zoom’s page.
According to university policy, if you plan to distribute the recording outside of the class, you will have to obtain written consent from students, and, depending on with whom you are sharing the recording, the Provost.
Automatic Live Transcriptions
Anyone in a Zoom meeting can now access and save an automatic transcript of the meeting. You may want to clarify your expectations for privacy with students as they relate to this feature.
How to record a meeting
See instructions from Zoom on how to make recordings and how to find recordings on your computer once they’re ready.
Please keep in mind that while Zoom as a vendor offers both local (on your computer) and cloud recording with a time limit on retention, BC supports only local recording so you can retain your recordings for as long as you wish.
Where to find your recording
At Boston College, local recording, where the recording is stored on your computer, is the default option. You may turn on cloud recording where the recording is stored on Zoom’s servers, but cloud recordings will be deleted after 2 days.
By default, all recordings will be placed in a folder called “Zoom” which can be found in the following locations on these devices:
- PC: C:\Users\User Name\Documents\Zoom
- Mac: /Users/User Name/Documents/Zoom
The video file will be called “zoom_0.mp4”.
You can also open the folder where your recording is saved, through your Zoom app. Read about How to view or change the default directory for computer recordings.
Sharing your recording
Once a recording has been made, the best way to share them with your class is by uploading your recordings to Panopto so that they can be accessed from your class Canvas page. See more instructions on our page “Upload a Video on Your Computer to Panopto.”