Zoom Basics

Zoom is a full-featured video conferencing service that is available to all Pomona College faculty, staff, and students for online meetings, webinars, virtual teaching, and interactive sessions. Zoom enables communication across mobile devices, desktop computers and video-enabled classrooms and offers users features such as chat, screen sharing, a virtual whiteboard, polling, and split-screen video conferencing so you can see everyone at once, much like an in-person meeting. Learn more about Zoom features.

Activate Your Account

To create a Zoom account, open the Pomona College Zoom landing page, zoom.pomona.edu. Select 'Sign In'. You will be directed to the Pomona College Single Sign-on via Microsoft. Login with your Pomona College username (username@pomona.edu or username@mymail.pomona.edu) and password.

Zoom Apps

Before using Zoom, we recommend installing Zoom software for your device. The Zoom Desktop Client and Mobile Apps offer additional features that Zoom web portal does not offer. The Zoom web portal is primarily used for changing your meeting settings and Zoom Phone settings. You can also use the web portal to customize your profile.

Zoom App Information

Zoom for Mac and Windows.
Zoom for Android and iOS.

Zoom offers a number of additional apps for your mobile device that you may find useful.

Getting Started

Once your Zoom account is activated, we suggest reviewing Zoom Help Center's Quick Start Guide for New Users. Zoom also offers a number of video tutorials that are useful in acclimating yourself to Zoom. In particular, we recommend:

Getting Started with Zoom Meetings
Joining & Configuring Audio & Video
Zoom's quick introduction to the basic meeting controls

FAQ

Zoom frequently asked questions (FAQs) related to Pomona College, please click here.
For general Zoom frequently asked questions, please click here.

Data Security

Zoom is configured by default to help reduce the possibility of unknown or unwelcome guests joining a meeting or webinar; however, there are additional security steps you can take to ensure your Zoom sessions are private.

The following security measures are in place by default:

Phone number masked. When Zoom users join using a phone, only the first 3 digits (area code) and last 3 digits of the phone number will be displayed.
All Zoom sessions are encrypted by default. This ensures that your session cannot be eavesdropped on or tampered with.
Waiting room. Zoom has enabled the waiting room feature by default as a security measure. To learn how to turn waiting room off or on please visit: Zoom Waiting Room documentation.