Access Meeting Recordings

Access Local Recordings

If you recorded your meeting locally to your computer, you can access the local recording files on the computer that recorded the meeting.

By default, local recordings will be placed in the following directory on your computer:

• Windows: C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\Zoom
• Mac: /Users/[Username]/Documents/Zoom
• Linux: home/[Username]/Documents/Zoom

To understand Zoom's recording file formats, view their Understanding File Formats (opens in a new tab) help page.

For more detailed information about local recordings and how to access them via the desktop client or web portal, view Zoom's Finding and viewing local recordings (opens in a new tab) help page.

Access Cloud Recordings via Web Portal

To understand Zoom's recording file formats, view their Understanding File Formats (opens in a new tab) help page.

Step 1

Within a web browser, navigate to and sign in to the University Zoom web portal. For instructions, please view the Access University Zoom Web Portal help page.

Step 2

Select Recordings in the left-hand navigation menu.

Step 3

Within the Cloud Recordings tab, it will show you a list of all cloud recordings that have been recorded within the last 130 days.

Step 4

To share a recording, select the Share button listed for that meeting. This will bring up a window with other options to choose from like who can view, the ability to share it with specific people or email addresses, as well as apply advanced share settings like applying expiration dates and passcodes.

Step 5

To download or delete the recording, select the More menu option and either select Download or Delete.

Step 6

To view a recording, select the name or title of one of the meeting recordings. Then select the thumbnail of the video to view the playback or access editing capabilities.

Access Cloud Recordings via Brightspace

To understand Zoom's recording file formats, view their Understanding File Formats (opens in a new tab) help page.

Step 1

Within a web browser, navigate to and sign in to the Brightspace Homepage (opens in a new browser).

Step 2

From the list of My Courses select the course from which your meeting recording was conducted.

Step 3

From the course Navbar select UA Tools and then select Zoom.

Step 4

Select the Cloud Recordings tab.

Step 5

Select the meeting topic link.

Step 6

Depending on your account's cloud recording settings it will show various recording files available for viewing (video recording, audio only, or chat text files). Select the Play button for that particular recording file to view or listen to the recording. Select the Download button to download the recording to your computer. Select the Share button to share the recording if desired.

Access Cloud Recordings via Panopto

By default, your Zoom cloud recording is automatically copied over to Panopto so that there will always be a backup of your recording that exists once your Zoom cloud recording is deleted out of the Zoom cloud after 130 days. Where your recording will be stored in Panopto will depend on which of the following situations pertains to you.

1. You have an existing Panopto account. Your Zoom cloud recording will be copied to a folder named Meeting Recordings which exists within your personal folder named My Folder.
2. You don't have an existing Panopto account. Your Zoom cloud recording will be placed in a folder that has your email address as its name. This folder is only accessible by campus Panopto admins. Once you create your Panopto account, you will have access to that folder. That folder is automatically renamed to Meeting Recordings and moved into your personal folder named My Folder.
3. Meeting was scheduled via Brightspace course and Panopto course folder was created. Your Zoom cloud recording will be placed in your course Panopto folder.
4. Meeting was scheduled via Brightspace course and Panopto course folder was not created. Your Zoom cloud recording will be placed in a folder named Meeting Recordings which exists within your personal folder named My Folder.

To summarize, it is imperative that you have an existing Panopto account established before you conduct and record your Zoom meeting to the cloud. This will ensure that your cloud recording gets directed to the appropriate Meeting Recordings folder within your personal folder. To create a Panopto account, view the Access Panopto help page.

Also, if you are scheduling your meetings via Brightspace and recording them to the cloud, it is imperative that you create your Panopto course folder before you conduct and record your Zoom meeting to the cloud. This will ensure that the recording will get directed to the course Panopto folder. To create your course Panopto folder, view the Access Panopto via Brightspace help page.

For the above situations 1, 2, and 4, the recordings are placed in a folder named Meeting Recordings. Do the following to access the Meeting Recordings folder.

Step 1

Sign in to Panopto using one of the methods mentioned in the Access Panopto help page.

Step 2

In the left-hand navigation menu, select My Folder.

Step 3

There will be a subfolder within your My Folder with the name Meeting Recordings. Select the Meeting Recordings folder.

Step 4

You should then have access to all of your Zoom cloud recordings within this folder.

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