Could our academic colleagues encourage students to do this as soon as possible and take advantage of more advanced security and sharing features. To do this students need to visit and sign up with their University of Manchester email address. Media Services are now in the process of licensing our student cohort. Could our academic staff encourage students to connect their Zoom accounts. Update on student screen sharing and breakout rooms: Staffnet article. In order to license our staff and students based in China, contact Media Services who will need their email address/es to manually add them to our Zoom license. Users are no longer able to sign up for free accounts in China affecting how they would create an account that would normally be migrated to a full, licensed version. You can now create up 100 breakout rooms in a meeting. More information and security settings advice for meetings in the Staffnet article.Īlso the UoM license has been upgraded with enhanced breakout rooms functionality. Restrictions on screen sharing and embedding passcodes in meeting links have been lifted.

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