Signing up for free to Zoom includes Basic features that, however, do not:

• support Zoom service integration into other applications

• contain cloud recording

• and restricts the duration of meetings to 40 minutes if there are more than 3 total participants at the meeting.

  To use Zoom services with LearningSpace after completing the previous part, you need to upgrade your account and include as many hosts in your subscription plan as many virtual rooms you would like to configure and run concurrently in LearningSpace.

  • Upgrade your account to Pro if you plan to use 9 virtual rooms or less at the same time;

  • Upgrade your account to Business if you plan to use 10 or more virtual rooms simultaneously.

Once you finish registering your free Zoom account, you will be redirected to your profile, where you can find your account number, personal meeting ID, account information, and meeting capacity.

You can also view your subscription status in the License field on your Profile under Account:

Upgrade Your Zoom Account

Change Your Plan

1. Click on Upgrade in the Licence field on your profile next to your current subscription status.
   You will be redirected to the Plan Management tab inside Plans and Billing. 
   
   

2. Click on Manage and Edit Plan.
   
   

   
   
   
   You will be redirected to the Edit Plan page.
   
   

3. Go to Switch plan if you want to modify your subscription plan:
   
   

   
   
   

   1. Select Pro if you plan to configure 9 virtual rooms or less (up to 9 licenses);

   2. Select Business if you want to configure 10 or more virtual rooms (up to 99 licenses).
      
      

4. On your Current Plan page, select the number of users and subscription cycle:
   

   

   Zoom automatically calculates the monthly and annual fees afterward.

Add Cloud Storage

LearningSpace temporarily stores virtual event recordings in Zoom's cloud. A meeting recording is first saved to Zoom. The video recording is then downloaded from the cloud through a secure HTTPS channel to the Video Review module.

Downloading virtual event recordings to LearningSpace might take some time, so to ensure that your Zoom account has enough room to temporarily store every recording of a virtual event, we recommend purchasing the extra 100 GB/month/licensed host solution (as mentioned below). 
 
By default, Zoom offers 1 GB/month of free cloud storage per licensed user (starting from a Pro subscription), which will most likely be exceeded while conducting a virtual event.

What Happens to Recordings after Download?

To avoid running out of space in your Zoom cloud storage, cloud recordings are automatically moved to the trash folder in your Zoom owner account once LearningSpace has successfully downloaded virtual event recordings to the Video Review module.

The recordings will be stored for another 30 days until deleted automatically.
 

1. Open Plan Management, go to Cloud Storage, and click Add.
   
   
   

   
   
   

   To accommodate the temporary recordings of (even) a day's worth of OSCE training/examination, purchase the extra 200 GB/month solution:

   

   On the Payment tab, provide the

   1. Billing Contact information

      Besides basic details, the total employee count of your organization is required to continue.

   2. Payment Method, and

   3. Credit/debit card information.
      

2. Once you are finished, click Place Order. You will be presented with an Order Summary.
   

3. Click Confirm to complete your purchase.
   Zoom will confirm that your account has been upgraded successfully.

Following the Account Upgrade

Remove the License from the Owner Account

1. Click on User Management in the sidebar next to your Zoom profile.
   
   

2. Select Users. 
   You will be presented with your owner account on the Users tab.

   In the tab's header, you can see the number of licenses you can assign to virtual rooms (here, 8 out of a total of 9).

   
   

   
   
   
   
   

3. Click on Edit in the row of your owner account. 
   The Edit User pop-up opens.
   
   

4. In the User Type row, select the Basic radio button to switch your account to basic and free up a virtual room license. 
   
   

   
   
   
   

5. Click Save. 
   Your owner account type has changed to "Basic."

   The number of licenses you can apply increases by one (to 9 in our example) in the tab's header.

   
   

   

Disable Waiting Rooms

To disable this feature:

1. Log into your Zoom owner account.

2. Open Account Management on the left.

3. Go to Account Settings.
   
   

   

   
   

4. On the Meeting tab, scroll down to the Waiting room setting. 
   You can find the setting right away in the Security section.
   
   

   
   
   

5. Toggle the switch on "Waiting room."
   A dialogue will open where you have to confirm the setting:
   
   

   
   
   

6. Click Turn Off, and your change will be saved automatically.

Enable Auto-Save for Chat Conversations

Save Chats to the Cloud

Saving chat messages to the cloud can only be enabled for each virtual room/licensed user separately:

1. Log into your Zoom owner account.

2. Open User Management on the left, then select Users.

3. In Users, click on the user account you want to modify. 
   You will be redirected to the user account's profile page.

4. Once there, open the Settings drop-down.

5. Select Recording.
   
   

   
   
   
   

6. Scroll down to "Save chat messages from the meeting/webinar" under Cloud recording and make sure the checkbox is selected.
   
   

   

   NOTE: Zoom no longer supports JWT. We recommend creating an OAuth app as described in Build an OAuth Application in Your Zoom Owner Account.

Access the Saved Chat Conversations of a Virtual Room

Chat files can be retrieved from the cloud storage associated with each licensed user account in a LearningSpace virtual room.

By default, once meeting recordings arrive in the Video Review module, they are automatically moved to the Trash folder in the user account associated with the virtual room.

If a recording is in the Trash folder, you cannot download the meeting recording and its attachments, such as the chat history or the separate audio file of the recording, from Zoom.

Deleted cloud recordings can be accessed for another 30 days after they were moved to the Trash.

How to Recover Recordings from the Trash Folder in Zoom

1. Log in to your Zoom account as an owner.

2. Open Account Management under ADMIN on the left.

3. Select Recording Management.
   Here, you can access the cloud recordings of every user registered in your owner account.
   

   You can log straight into the Zoom user account of a virtual room to retrieve the recording of the virtual event.
   If you log directly into an account, go to Recordings.

   You can choose either option. Regardless of the approach, the steps for recovering your recordings from the trash are the same.
   The screenshots included in this section show the recovery process inside an owner account.

4. Go to the Trash folder by using the link on the right.

5. Select your recording from the list in the Trash folder.
   

   Tip

   The start time of each recording shows the moment when the SP in charge launched the virtual meeting from their learner pre-selection page. The recording immediately begins once the SP starts hosting the meeting.

   
   

6. Click Recover to move your recording back to your main recording page.

7. Confirm that you would like to recover the selected recording:
   

   Otherwise, the recording remains in the Trash folder, and you will not be able to download the recording and its attachments, such as the chat history or the separate audio file of the recording, from Zoom.

8. Click on the My Recordings link at the top of your page to return from the Trash folder.

9. Find your recovered video recording.

10. Click on the Topic of the meeting recording to display every file of the meeting recording

11. Hover over the chat file to view options. 

   

12. To display chat history side-by-side with the meeting recording, open the video recording by clicking on its title:
    
    

Save the Chat Locally

1. Log in to your Zoom owner account.

2. Open Account Management on the left.

3. Go to Account Settings. 
   

4. On the Meeting tab, scroll down to the Meeting chat - Auto-save setting. 
   You can find the setting in the In Meeting (Basic) section.
   
   

   
   
   

5. Toggle the switch to Auto saving chats.
   A dialogue will open where you have to confirm the setting:
   
   

   
   
   
   

6. Click Turn On, and your settings will be saved automatically.