Inviting a Guest Speaker/Co-host to a Zoom Class Meeting

Zoom will need to be enabled in the course site in order to complete these steps. Instructions can be found at Enabling Zoom in Canvas

The following article outlines the steps to provide your Guest Speaker with the meeting information to your Canvas-Zoom meetings. 

Click on the Zoom link in Canvas. The Zoom Meetings page will appear.

Locate the desired meeting and click on the meeting link

Scroll down to the Invite Attendees area and click on the Copy the invitation link. The Copy Meeting Invitation window will 

Click on the Copy Meeting invitation button, paste the information into a new email, and send it to the guest speaker.

After the meeting starts you will want to add them as a co-host so they can unmute themselves and share their screen. More information can be found at Adding a co-host to a Zoom meeting

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