If your courses in Blackboard have been merged, any Zoom meetings and subsequent recordings that were previously created in the original (“child”) courses will not appear in the merged (“parent”) course, which is denoted by “mm” in the Course ID.

After merging courses, instructors have the following options for setting up and using Zoom:

Scenario 1: All class sections meet at the same time

If your classes meet at the same time, with all sections, you can manually create a recurring meeting from within the merged course (instructions: Manually Create Zoom Meetings in Blackboard). This will make all class meeting links and recordings available through the ‘USC Zoom Pro Meeting’ app.

Scenario 2: Individual sections meet separately

Some instructors decide that separate meetings are still necessary, even though the Blackboard environment is merged.

If you would like to meet with the students in your section separately and prevent students from other sections from joining and having access to class recordings, you can set up a Content Area in the merged/parent course that only your students have access to (by setting an Adaptive Release ‘member’ rule), and where instructors or TAs manually add the Zoom meeting information/link, as well as the links to each of the meeting recordings. The video tutorial for this process is available below: