You can create a Virtual Classroom in myCourses to allow students to attend an online room directly within your course.
Virtual Classroom is only supported on Firefox and Chrome. The feature is not accessible using Edge, Internet Explorer or Safari.
In this article:
Create a Virtual Classroom
Click Content on your Navigation Bar and then select the module or unit/lesson/folder where you wish to add the Virtual Classroom.
Click Add Existing Activities (current Content Experience) or Add Existing (new Content Experience).
Select Create Virtual Classroom.
In the pop-up that appears, click Schedule Meeting.
Enter the name of the meeting, date and duration, and click Save. This will bring you back to the scheduling page.
At this point the new meeting has not yet been added to your course content and is not available to students.
Click on the meeting you have just created. The virtual classroom link is now added to your course content and is visible to students.
Advanced settings
You can customize a Virtual Classroom with the following settings:
Start Recording Automatically: The virtual classroom will be recorded automatically without instructor action. This option is turned off by default.
Publish recorded meeting: Select this option if you want the attendees to automatically receive a link to the meeting recording.
Allow external participants: Select this option if you want to invite outside participants (such as a guest speaker or an interviewee) to the meeting.
Whole Class: Select this option if you want to invite the entire class (this option is selected by default).
Edit a Virtual Classroom
You can only edit classrooms that are not in progress.
Click Content on your Navigation Bar and then select the module or unit/lesson/folder where you added the Virtual Classroom.
Click Add Existing Activities (current Content Experience) or Add Existing (new Content Experience).
Click External Learning Tools.
Click Virtual Classroom. This will add a link called Virtual Classroom to your module or unit/lesson/folder.
Click on the new Virtual Classroom link. You will see a list of active and recorded meetings.
Click the 3 dots at the right of the meeting name under Actions and click Edit.
You can change the date and time (only for the future), the duration and recording options.
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