Zoom offers full end-to-end encryption as a beta functionality. This functionality must be explicitly enabled for a scheduled meeting. We recommend using this in teaching only in exceptional cases for particularly sensitive content (e.g. patient data), as various functionalities of interest for teaching will then no longer be available, in particular breakout rooms and polling. A detailed list can be found on the Zoom help page https://support .zoom.us/hc/en/articles/360048660871-End-to-end-E2E-encryption-for-meetings. In addition, host and participants must be using Zoom Client version 5.5.0. or later. Participation via the Web Client is not possible. To make sure you have the latest version of Zoom installed on your computer, open Zoom and click on your user icon/image in the upper right corner. Then select "Check for updates" and install the latest version if needed.

It is recommended to always use the same link for a course throughout the semester. To do this, create a recurring meeting in Zoom. This is the only way to ensure that the link (or meeting ID) does not expire during the semester. The ID or link for a recurring meeting will not expire until 365 days after the meeting was last started. On the other hand, the link or meeting ID for a one-time scheduled meeting expires 30 days after the meeting is scheduled.

With the Zoom license of the University of Basel, live teaching events can be held via video conference (so-called "meetings") with up to 300 participants. Upon request to the IT service desk, the maximum number of participants can be increased to 500. In addition to audio and video, various functions such as chat, polls or breakout rooms are available. The functions in Zoom-Meeetings cover the needs of highly interactive events as well as non-interactive lectures and can be adapted to the needs of your own courses in the settings. In addition to such "meetings", Zoom also provides a webinar platform, but this is less suitable for university courses, as some features of interest for teaching are not available (e.g. breakout rooms, meeting responses, file transfer, waiting room). If you need the webinar functions for other purposes, please contact the IT Service Desk (supportits@ unibas.ch or phone +41 61 207 14 11). A comparison between meetings and webinars on Zoom can be found on this website https://support.zoom.us/hc/de /articles/115005474943-meeting-and-webinar-in-comparison.

The University of Basel has a Zoom license with a capacity of 300 participants per meeting. Upon request to the IT Service Desk, the maximum number of participants can be increased to 500. Transmission problems usually occur due to insufficient WLAN connections of the participants. In such cases, it can help to turn off video and audio output at the participants' end (i.e., participants can see and hear, but cannot be seen and heard). This can be controlled centrally by the host.

You probably have an account on Zoom.us. All members of the University of Basel (i.e. lecturers, staff and students) will be able to log in to https://unibas.zoom.us/ in the fall semester 2020 using your Unibas or Stud.unibas email address. To connect an existing Zoom account to the Uni Basel license, please follow the instructions in chap. 5.4 at https://tales.nmc.unibas.ch/de/online-lehrveranstaltungen-17. If you encounter problems logging in with your unibas or stud.unibas address, please contact the IT Service Desk directly (support-its@unibas.ch or phone +41 61 207 14 11).

Guests can be invited to the event in Zoom by the seminar leader and provided with presentation rights accordingly. To give the guest full host rights, activate the "Co-moderator" function in your Zoom settings under "Meeting". Afterwards, you can designate someone as host in each meeting in the participant administration. They can then leave the meeting themselves without ending it for the others.

If you want your students to interact in small groups for an assignment during an online lecture/seminar, this is possible within the existing session: Zoom offers the possibility to create "Breakout Rooms" where participants can work in smaller groups without leaving the original session. As the meeting host, you will need to enable this feature in your online Zoom profile. In your Zoom profile, follow Meeting In Meeting (Advanced) Breakout Room Settings and enable this feature. Then the Breakout Rooms option will appear at the bottom of the Zoom video conferencing interface of host and co-hosts, because in addition to the host, co-hosts can also manage the breakout rooms. Here is a link to a video explaining how to proceed. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476313

University students are also included in the Zoom license of the University of Basel in the fall semester 2020. Thus, students can hold meetings with up to 300 people of unlimited duration. Furthermore, the SWITCHmeet tool is also available: https://unibas.meet.switch.ch Instructions for this can be found here: https://edutools.unibas.ch/de/uebersicht-tools-2

As a host and co-host, you have the option to create breakout rooms that allow participants to select a room if you have Zoom version 5.3.0 or later installed. Participants can then also move freely between breakout rooms. However, for this to work, the participants must also be using version 5.3.0 or higher. To make sure you have the latest version of Zoom installed on your computer, open Zoom and click on your user icon/image in the top right corner. Then select "Check for Updates" and install the latest version if needed.