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All Swarthmore faculty, staff, and students have a basic Zoom account for video web-conferencing— just go to http://swarthmore.zoom.us. Sign in with your Swarthmore College username and password. You can use Zoom to have an audio or video chat with anybody else and you can invite up to 99 other people into a meeting for a total of 100 people on one call. The only limit to a basic account is that you’re limited to 40 minutes per call. (To hold a meeting longer than 40 minutes, you need a Licensed account—read on!)

Why Zoom?

Over the past few years, Media Services has seen a boom in requests for support for web-based video and audio conferencing services (such as Skype, Google Hangouts, WebEx, and GoToMeeting.) While these tools are handy, we haven’t always been satisfied with their quality or ease of use.

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From a Mac or PC, log in into your Basic Zoom account (limited to 40 minutes) at http://swarthmore.zoom.us using your Swarthmore username and password. If you would like to start using Zoom for College business and you need longer than 40 minutes, contact Media  Media Services (avbox@swarthmore.edu) . We can upgrade your Basic account to a Licensed account, which has no time limits on meetings. Media Services can also set you up with supplemental web cameras, headphones, and microphones.

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