Adding an alternative host to your Zoom meeting

Alternative hosts can start a meeting on behalf of the Zoom user who created the meeting. This is especially useful in planning ahead for absences. You can only add alternative hosts who have a @coursemojo.com email address.

Because of syncing behavior between Canvas and Zoom, we recommend only editing alternative hosts within the Zoom Video Conferencing LTI in Canvas, not from within your meeting in the Zoom web portal. To do so:

1) Open your Canvas course and navigate to the Zoom Video Conferencing LTI link on the left. (If Zoom Video Conferencing doesn't appear, you may need to enable it in Settings > Navigation.)

2) Click the three dots on the right and click "Manage alternative hosts":

3) Your email address should already appear as an alternative host. Add the email addresses of anyone you'd like to add and click their address in the drop-down menu:

4) A green "Add success!" message should appear at the top of the page. Repeat the process for anyone else you need to add.

Note that this adds alternative hosts for every meeting associated with your course - so if you have two Zoom meetings you use for the course, this will add alternative hosts to both meetings.

As long as they're signed into Zoom with their @coursemojo.com email address, alternative hosts will just need to click your Zoom meeting's link in order to start it.