Zoom: How to Log In and Start a Meeting or Webinar

All Penn State Zoom users

There are multiple ways to launch your live Zoom class meetings, including the Zoom menu option in Canvas, a web browser, or the Zoom desktop client. You must sign in to your Penn State Zoom account to ensure you are able to enter your meeting since your professor may have enabled security settings that require it.

Sign in to Zoom

If the security feature has been enabled, you will see the following pop-up. Click Sign in to Join.

Click Sign in with SSO.

Enter psu in the Company Domain field and click Continue.

On the WebAccess screen, enter your User ID and Password and then click LOG IN.

You are now signed in to your Penn State account.

Join Your Zoom Class Meeting

There are three options for entering your live Zoom class meeting.

1. From Canvas:
   1. Click Zoom from the Course Navigation menu on the left.
      
      
      
      
   2. Locate the class meeting and click Join.
      
      
      
      
   3. Click Open Zoom to launch the meeting.
      
      
      
      
2. From a web browser:
   1. Paste the meeting link into the address bar of your web browser and press Enter.
      
      
      
      
   2. Click Open Zoom to launch the meeting.
      
      
      
      
3. From the Zoom desktop client:
   1. Click the Join button in the Zoom desktop client.
      
      
      
      
   2. Enter the meeting link or ID into the meeting ID field and click Join to launch the meeting.
      
      NOTE: If you enter the meeting link, Zoom automatically extracts the meeting ID.