In April 2024, Zoom announced Zoom Workplace. If you're familiar with the Zoom desktop application, you will notice the new Zoom Workplace name throughout the app, as well as many new enhancements that are now available.
Available as of May 2024, Zoom's new screen sharing presenter layouts combine your video and shared screen to present everything in one frame to create a more engaging sharing session. Presenters have a few different layout options, ranging from having the content appear over-the-shoulder of your video, the presenter appearing in front of the content, or the presenter and the content appearing side-by-side.
As of April 2024, Zoom has enabled the profanity filter within the University of Miami Zoom tenant. The profanity filter prevents inappropriate words from being displayed by Zoom's automated captions.
As of February 2024, Zoom has made their new in-meeting chat experience standard across all Zoom Meetings to allow Zoom users to enjoy the latest features. This aligns in-meeting chat more closely with the feature functionality that users enjoy in Zoom team chat today.
Experience Copilot: Our AI-Powered, Data Protected Chat for Work
With Copilot, you get cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) chat that enables you to ask complex questions and receive responses based on information from the web, all powered by GPT-4 and DALL-E. This is the same tool introduced in September 2023 to our UM community, Bing Chat Enterprise; Microsoft recently announced that they renamed it to "Copilot."
Adobe Creative Cloud Deleted File Retention Period
In order to optimize cloud storage capacity, Adobe is implementing a new process for deleted files in Creative Cloud storage. As of June 4, 2023, newly deleted files will be retained for 30 days and then permanently removed. Deleted files stored for over 30 days in the Deleted folder prior to this date will also be permanently removed.
On a quarterly basis, Zoom will require everyone to use a recently updated Zoom client to continue hosting and participating in Zoom meetings. This change is being implemented to improve security, stability, and support. Those running unsupported Zoom clients will be prompted to update Zoom or join meetings from the web browser.
Known Issue with Zoom Recurring Meeting Links Created in Outlook
Zoom has identified an issue within recurring meetings created in Outlook calendar. (Please note that non-recurring meetings are not affected by this issue.) In some cases, recurring meetings are not recognized by Zoom as recurring, therefore the Zoom link created is invalid. At this time, Zoom recommends creating the recurring meeting on the Zoom site, and then sending the meeting details via Outlook calendar.
If you do not have a passcode on an existing Zoom meeting, a waiting room will be enabled by default. Newly created Zoom meetings require either a passcode or a waiting room.
In 2020, the University of Miami signed an academic enterprise agreement with Zoom for video and audio conferencing. Zoom was selected to augment the University's current video conferencing tools for its consistency across devices, integrations, simplicity, and flexibility.
University of Miami faculty, staff, and students have access to Qualtrics, the University's web-based survey tool, at no additional cost. With Qualtrics, you can create a range of surveys: from simple questionnaires to inquiries for detailed research projects.
Create an Inclusive Feedback Experience with Digital Annotation Tools
Digital Annotation Tools enable faculty to review electronic student submissions, directly provide personalized and detailed feedback on the assignment, and support a paperless classroom—ultimately, inviting students to have an active role within the feedback process.
OneDrive is a cloud storage service available at no cost to all active UM faculty, staff, and students. Some benefits of using OneDrive include online and offline document editing and syncing, seamless collaboration features, and editing and syncing files across web, mobile, and desktop.
University of Miami Becomes Florida's First Adobe Creative Campus
The University of Miami (UM) provides the full suite of Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe CC) software to all faculty, staff, and students at no cost, making UM the first Florida Adobe Creative Campus.
