Importing and Removing Zoom Meetings in Canvas

1. Why Would I Need to Import a Meeting?

The Zoom tool in Canvas typically only shows meetings that were scheduled from within that specific course. You may need to import a meeting if:

  • You scheduled a single Zoom meeting for multiple course sections and want it to appear in each section's list.
  • You scheduled a meeting in the main FAU Zoom portal, but you want its cloud recordings to automatically appear in the "Cloud Recordings" tab for your specific Canvas course.

2. How to Import a Meeting into Your Canvas Course

  1. Navigate to the Zoom area in your Canvas course.
  2. Click the three-dot menu (...) located in the top-right corner of the Zoom tool frame.
  3. From the dropdown menu, select Import meeting. Uploaded Image (Thumbnail)
  4. A pop-up window will appear. Enter the nine, ten, or eleven-digit Meeting ID of the session you wish to import.
  5. Click the Import button.

The meeting will now appear in the list of upcoming meetings for that course, and its future cloud recordings will be available to students in the "Cloud Recordings" tab.

3. How to Disassociate (Remove) a Meeting from Canvas

You may want to remove a meeting from your course list to avoid clutter or if you imported it by mistake.

Important Note: Disassociating a meeting only removes it from the list inside Canvas. It does not cancel or delete the actual meeting from your Zoom account. The meeting will still exist and can be started from the Zoom app or web portal.

  1. In the list of upcoming meetings in Canvas, find the one you want to remove from the course view.
  2. To the far right of the meeting's name, click the (...) menu associated with that specific meeting row.
  3. Select Disassociate from the dropdown menu.
  4. A confirmation window will appear. Click Disassociate again to confirm.

The meeting will now be removed from the list in this Canvas course, but it will remain active in your Zoom account and in any other courses it may have been imported into.

Regardless of your methodology or approach, recorded lectures with students (in which their name, voice, and/or video is used) should not be downloaded or reused in any other course, section, or semester or shared with anyone outside of those registered for that particular course section. Doing so, is a violation of student privacy and FERPA regulations. 

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