When using Live Lessons with Zoom in your Thinkific course there's a few Zoom settings you'll need to review to make sure it works properly.
Required: Disable “Use Personal Meeting ID (PMI) when scheduling a meeting”
What is it?
Using your PMI for all new meetings means they're always accessible with the same Meeting ID and personal link. Because the Thinkific Zoom integration doesn't currently support recurring meetings, you'll need to make sure this setting is turned off.
How to Turn it Off
- Go to your Zoom profile settings
- Turn off Use Personal Meeting ID (PMI) when scheduling a meeting (switch icon should be grey)
Suggested: Disable “Only authenticated users can join meetings”
What is Zoom Authentication?
Zoom authentication requires attendees to sign into their Zoom account or create a Zoom account when joining a meeting or webinar. Zoom has made this a default, but you can turn off this setting in your Zoom account, so that students will not be required to login to view your meeting!
Your lesson is still password protected by default for security, but having authentication disabled means students won't need to create a Zoom account to access the lesson.
How to Turn Off Zoom Authentication
- Go to your Zoom profile settings
- Turn off Only authenticated users can join meetings from Web client (switch icon should be grey)
And that's it! Now students will be able to join your meeting directly from the Course Player without being required to login or create a Zoom account.
Learn more about Zoom's authentication feature here: Authentication Profiles for Meetings and Webinars