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Any regular system maintenance and server restarts will be scheduled weekdays between 5am and 7am and Sundays between 5am and 12pm. All users should be aware that the system may become unavailable during this maintenance time.
As described in Cornell University Policy 5.10, Information Security, any information that contains any of the following data elements, when appearing in conjunction with an individual’s legal name or other identifier (for example, email address), is considered to be high-risk (confidential)…
To greatly reduce Cornell's risk of suffering data breaches, it's critical to identify what confidential data must be stored (temporarily or permanently) on a staff computer or departmental file server, to secure and track confidential data while it's being stored, and to delete that confidential…
Accepting individual responsibility for the university information entrusted to your care is essential. Data security is a problem that cannot be solved by technology.
If you work with highly sensitive information about other people, especially data classified as confidential under…
With identity theft due to the loss of online data a major concern these days, Cornell needs to better protect sensitive data stored in electronic form, particularly the personal information that students, employees and others associated with the university have placed under our trust.
When installing the Mac CU VPN client, you receive an error that the vpn.pkg file is damaged.
How to Solve this Problem
The error message is misleading. The installation package is not damaged. However, a security setting on your Mac is preventing the client installation. To solve this…
Users who are designated as Space Administrators for a space have access to a number of functions that space users do not, including controlling access for the space and configuring a theme for the space. Space administration tools are located in Space Tools found in the lower left corner…
Zoom
Standards-Based Video Conferencing
Use Cases
Casual, on-the-fly Instant Messaging (IM)
Yes
No
Casual, on-the-fly audio chat
No
No
Casual, on-the-fly video chat
The following link will take you to the vendor's help documentation:
Zoom Video Tutorials
Zoom offers a variety of learning options for users:
Zoom's user blog has a great post on Best Practices for Conducting Successful Meetings.
LinkedIn Learning has a 45-minute video on Starting and Running a Zoom Meeting.
If people will be hearing you speak, be sure to turn off notifications from messaging and other apps on your computer before the…
In general:
Students can only create Cornell Zoom recordings in local storage (not Zoom Cloud recordings).
Faculty and staff who attend a meeting can create recordings in local storage if the host has given them that permission.
Faculty and staff who host a meeting can choose local or…
The following link will take you to the vendor's help documentation:
Zoom Screen-Sharing Help Topics
In response to reports of audio quality issues in Zoom meetings, investigation has turned up a range of causes, rather than a single issue within the service. The vendor has suggested that it's possible some of the reported issues may be related to running older versions of Zoom. If you encounter…
The following link will take you to the vendor's help documentation:
Zoom Host Controls Help Topics
The following link will take you to the vendor's help documentation:
Zoom Scheduling Help Topics
Schedule a Zoom Meeting
Go to your personal Zoom Meetings page (link opens app), where you can:
The following links will take you to Zoom's documentation:
Be sure you have logged in to the Cornell Zoom website before joining Cornell-related Zoom meetings or webinars.
Joining a Zoom meeting or webinar is generally as easy as:
A meeting is a Zoom event where one person is the host and all other participants have equal footing. The host can share hosting responsibilities with other participants. Any participant can share their screen. A basic meeting can have up to 300 participants, and a Large Meeting option for up to…