Zoom - remote teaching and video conference
Zoom is SUs common video conferencing software. It allows 1-1 video calls, video conferences as well as webminars and sharing of your screen to other meeting participants. Everybody with an SU account, i.e. employees and students, have a subscription and can initiate meetings and invite people without a Zoom subscription.
The instructions on this page apply to both video conferencing as well as remote teaching. Zoom clients exist for Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android.
General hints
- If possible, use a wired connection rather than wireles connections. It reduces the risk for delays and interruptions.
- The quality of the audio stream is often more important than the video quality. Using a telephone conference microphone or headset is recommended.Sticks and Laser pointers are not seen in presentations. Use the Zoom annotation tools instead.
Zoom annotation toolbar
- If you have a thesis defence or similar, assign another person as host. This person can act as a moderator and mute microphones, set a video stream as a "spotlight video" and monitor the stream. In case you want additional hosts for the meeting that can manage participants etc (i.e. co-hosts in Zoom lingo) you do it by right clicking on the participant and selecting "make co-host". See the Zoom co-host documentation for more information.
- In case you have more than one camera connected it is possible to show your second camera as a share. To do this start a share and in the selection dialog, under the advanced tab, select "Content from 2nd camera."
Showing feed from second camera as a share.
- For more information and tips on hosting meetings see the Zoom participant management documentation.
Support for Zoom at Fysikum
Local support is provided by the data system group.
Last updated: 2025-11-07
Source: Department of Physics