NIU has purchased an educational site license of Zoom and has enabled access for all faculty and students to use for educational purposes. Microsoft Teams remains the primary collaboration tool for the university.
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The university has purchased an educational site license of Zoom and all NIU faculty and students now have access to use Zoom. While Microsoft Teams remains the primary collaboration tool for the university, Zoom is now also available as another alternative synchronous collaboration tool for use in NIU's instructional environment. To learn more about use of Zoom and to get started, please see the available resources and answers to frequently asked questions available below.
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Getting Started - Frequently Asked Questions
No. Our educational site license permits only faculty, instructors, teaching assistants, and students to have access to create meetings. Staff will not have access to create or manage Zoom meetings. Anyone however can attend a Zoom meeting.
Microsoft Teams remains the primary collaboration tool for the university.
All NIU faculty and students already have access! All you need to do is login to Zoom at https://niu-edu.zoom.us using your NIU Account ID (example: A123456@mail.niu.edu or z123456@students.niu.edu) and password to login where prompted, just like you would to login to Blackboard or Microsoft O365. If you previously had a personal Zoom account using your NIU email address, you'll be prompted to change the email address of your personal license to a non-NIU.edu email address.
In order to use Zoom with NIU's educational site license you must login to NIU's Zoom login URL: niu-edu.zoom.us and enter your NIU email address (example: a123456@mail.niu.edu / z123456@students.niu.edu) and your Account ID password, like you use for logging into Blackboard or Microsoft O365. Moving forward, you should always login to Zoom using this NIU Zoom login URL. You can find a "Login to Zoom" button prominently on NIU Zoom support pages if your forget this URL.
This is due to a change made in how individual Zoom accounts registered with mail.niu.edu and students.niu.edu email addresses interacted with the new enterprise license. These users will have to change their email address on those accounts to something not NIU-related by following these instructions.
No. Your NIU faculty / student Zoom account remains separate from your personal account.
To login to your NIU Zoom account on the Zoom app, do the following:
- On the Zoom app, logout of your personal account.
- On the Zoom app, click Sign in
- Click Sign In with SSO
- In the "Your Company Domain" field, enter https://niu-edu so that the domain listed in the sign in box is https://niu-edu.zoom.us
- enter your Account ID (ie: a123456@mail.niu.edu or z123456@students.niu.edu) and password when prompted and submit
The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning has developed and shared these Zoom introductory PowerPoint slides.
Check NIU's Zoom frequently asked questions and Zoom's help center. You can additionally contact Zoom support for technical assistance.
For assistance with teaching with virtual meetings tools like Zoom, contact the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning.