One of the best things about Zoom is that the platform gives account holders the ability to record their meetings and webinars, saving them to the platform. In order to do so, you first need a Zoom account that includes a storage upgrade. Otherwise, you won’t be able to save your Zoom meetings to the cloud.
In addition, if you allow it, your meeting attendees can record the meetings as well. If they don’t have an account where they have paid for the cloud storage upgrade, they’ll need to save it to their computer or electronic device.
Recording Meetings and Webinars
Recording your meetings and webinars in Zoom is as easy as adjusting your settings and then, when your meeting gets started, setting the recording in motion.
Correcting Your Settings
Step 1: Sign in to Zoom (make sure that you’re the admin and can change the account settings)
Step 2: Go to Account Management, from there, go to Account Settings
Step 3: Go to the tab labeled Recording
Step 4: On that tab, check to ensure that the setting for Cloud Recording is turned on
Step 5: If that setting is off, press the toggle until it turns on
Recording a Meeting
Step 1: Host a meeting in Zoom
Step 2: Go to the Zoom meeting toolbar and select the Record button
Step 3: Set it to record to the cloud
Once your recording is in progress, you have the power to either stop or pause it during the meeting. However, clicking on End Meeting will also stop the recording.
Note: Zoom needs to process the recording before you can view it. The recording won’t be available immediately after your meeting ends. Instead, you’ll have to wait until you get an email from Zoom letting you know that the recording is available.
Storing Recordings
Unless you’ve chosen local storage (i.e. your computer) as the place to store your recording, Zoom will save your recorded webinar or meeting to the cloud. You can access these recordings by:
Step 1: Logging into Zoom
Step 2: Go to your profile
Step 3: Click “Settings:
Step 4: Select “Recordings”
Step 5: Open the folders
Transcriptions
One of the most interesting things about Zoom is that the platform can transcribe your recordings for you and save them to the cloud along with the recording itself. You can even add the transcription to the recording as a kind of closed captioning.
Start by:
Step 1: Sign in to Zoom (make sure that you’re the admin and can change the account settings)
Step 2: Go to Account Management, from there, go to Account Settings
Step 3: Go to the tab labeled Recording
Step 4: On that tab, check to ensure that the setting for Cloud Recording is turned on
Step 5: If that setting is off, press the toggle until it turns on
Step 6: Go to the Advanced settings
Step 7: Select the option for Audio Transcripts
Step 8: Press Save