As we look for opportunities to continue operations across campus, faculty and staff will want ways to connect with each other and with students in real time.

Wichita State has adopted Microsoft Teams as it's primary supported web conferencing application and is available to all faculty, staff, and students. But for those who prefer to use Zoom, it is also available in two levels: Basic and Licensed. Licensed is available at the department's expense. Both Teams and Zoom are integrated with your myWSU login.

Basic

Basic is no cost to you or the university. To sign up for an account go to: https://wichitastate.zoom.us/signup and register for a basic account using your @wichita.edu email address. This way, it will be linked into our university group and you’ll have single-sign-on access.

Licensed

We have paid for a very limited number of Licensed accounts for the entire campus community, so we ask you to consider ways in which you can use a basic account and still accomplish what you need to do at a distance. If you currently have a Licensed account but aren’t actively using it or your needs could be met with Basic, please contact us so we can downgrade your account and reserve those for high priority situations. At this time, students are not eligible for Licensed accounts, with the exception of graduate students with paid teaching responsibilities, with departmental approval.

Zoom Solutions

Keep in mind that even though the free Zoom service doesn't allow conferences to exceed 40 minutes, you can have as many conferences as you like, so you could hold a longer class period in a series of consecutive Zoom sessions. One suggestion is to use the “Personal Meeting ID” when scheduling meetings that need to have multiple meetings. Doing this will allow you to only share one link that is used for all the successive meetings.

If you need to connect more than 100 people, we suggest you visit with OIR to talk through ways of making your material asynchronous or which other tools may allow you to communicate with large groups.

Request Zoom

To request Zoom, submit a request via the Audio-Visual Media Support page. Please note that current licenses are limited, and there may be a waiting period. Until then, please see our information on using a Basic license. 

 Zoom Basic Features

  • 1:1 conferencing for unlimited time
  • Meetings of up to 100 participants, limited to 40 minutes
  • Unlimited number of meetings
  • Single sign-on through WSU Systems
  • Meeting/Conference recording
  • Phone dialup

Zoom Licensed Features

  • 1:1 conferencing for unlimited time
  • Meetings of up to 100 participants, limited to 24 hours
  • Unlimited number of meetings
  • Single sign-on through WSU Systems
  • Meeting/Conference recording
  • Phone dialup
  • $35/yearly cost

Visit the Zoom homepage at https://wichitastate.zoom.us to sign in or join a meeting. 

Looking for Zoom training?

OIR has step-by-step training get started with downloading, installing, scheduling meetings and more. Visit our Zoom at WSU Training page to explore the OIR-created materials or send us an email with your questions using the "Email Us" link found on this page.