Overview
- Special arrangement has to be made by ITSC to allocate a large meeting license, which allows up to 1000 participants, and Faculties should submit a request to ITSC using the application form.
- Apart from “Meeting”, ZOOM can conduct “Webinar” which allows up to 10,000 participants. “Meeting” and “Webinar” have different functionality.
ZOOM Licenses
- Generally speaking, webinar is suggested for events open for public.
- For comparison, please refer to https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005474943-Meeting-and-Webinar-Comparison.
- All CUHK staff and students are granted the meeting300 license to host meetings up to 300 participants
- For other licenses:
- For meetings, the University has some large meeting license for 1000 participants
- For webinars, the University has a few webinar licenses of 500 / 1000 / 3000 / 5000 attendees.
Webinar Licenses
- One-time webinar500/1000/3000/5000 licenses can be arranged by request free of charge. Please consider the options suggested in webinar settings in http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/c_systems/zoom/Zoom-Webinar-Basic.pdf.
- If dedicated webinar licenses are needed, the listed prices of various webinar licenses are available at https://zoom.us/pricing/webinar.
Large Meeting License
- One-time meeting1000 license can also be arranged by request free of charge. Please consider the options suggested in https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/c_systems/zoom/Zoom-MeetingOptions-LargeMeetings.pdf and the following:
- Disable Join Before Host
- Enable the Waiting Room Feature
- Limit Sharing to the Host
- Make Co-Host the speaker (only available to the host): Assign the attendee to be a co-host. You can have an unlimited number of co-hosts.
- Stop Video: Stop the participant's video stream so they are unable to start their video.
- Rename: Change the attendee name that is displayed to other participants. This change only applies to the current meeting.
- Put in Waiting Room: Place the attendee in a virtual waiting room while you prepare for the meeting. The host must enable waiting room for this option to appear.
- Put On Hold: If the waiting room is not enabled, you'll see this option to place the attendee on hold.
- Remove: Dismiss a participant from the meeting. They won't be able to rejoin unless you allow participants and panelists to rejoin.
Additional suggestions:
- https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/c_systems/zoom/ZOOM-SuggestionsRecentAlerts-2020April.pdf
- https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/c_systems/zoom/ZOOM-Suggestions-SecureOnlineInvigilation.pdf
Additional reference on ZOOM Security:
- https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/privacy-and-security.html
- https://zoom.us/docs/doc/Securing%20Your%20Zoom%20Meetings.pdf
Additional references on ZOOM Online Events
Application Form
Steps to check your ZOOM user account profile for the assigned license(s) and capacity
- Visit https://cuhk.zoom.us/profile and sign in via CUHK Login
- Check "License Type"