Displaying a Zoom Class on a Classroom Projector

Instructions that students can use to display Zoom lectures on a classroom projector.

This guide is for students who are taking an entirely online class with lectures delivered via Zoom, and who also have designated classrooms ("Zoom Rooms") to gather in to attend the lecture. One convention is for every student to listen to the lecture with earphones/headphones, but it may be more engaging and immersive to put the instructor up on the classroom projector. This article explains how to do that.

If you have trouble with these instructions, please reach out to the IT Help Desk to have someone dispatched to your classroom.

1. If you use this method, every student in the classroom must mute their computer's system audio and microphones.
   • Any student who doesn't do this will cause audio feedback from the instructor being captured by the microphone, or the instructor being played back into the microphone. Or worse: both!
2. One student will need to sign into the instructor station computer.
   1. The computer should be on Windows's login screen. If it's not, the previous instructor did something wrong. Log out if able, or use the power button icon on the bottom right to restart the computer.
   2. Select Other User in the bottom left, and log in with your NKU username and password.
      • Your username is the portion of your email address before the @.
3. Sign in to Zoom Workplace. You only have to do this part once.
   1. Open Zoom Workplace, click Sign In, and use the SSO button.
   2. The company domain is nku.zoom.us.
   3. A browser window will open to NKU's sign on page; use it to sign in.
   4. The browser will ask if you want to use Zoom to open a link. Check the box to always allow that if it appears, and then say yes.
4. Find the link to your Zoom session(s) and open it. You can access your email at webmail.nku.edu.
5. Start up the classroom's projector system and select the PC input.
   • The classroom speakers, microphone, and camera will not work unless the projector system is on and the PC input is selected.
   • Every classroom has a slightly different system; if you need help for this part--or any other part, really!--please call the IT Help Desk.
6. Join the meeting; you're good to go! The instructor station computer should not be muted. It should be the only computer in the room playing and recording audio.