Require Authentication to Penn State
One method of preventing “Zoombombing” is to require all participants sign in using an @psu.edu email address. Students will need to sign into the meeting using the SSO option and authenticate to PSU. Students’ displayed name in the session are, by default, associated with their official PSU email address. Note: there i
- Visit https://psu.zoom.us.
- Click Sign in and log in with your PSU credentials.
- Click Settings from the left-hand menu.
- Ensure that “Only authenticated users can join meetings” is enabled. This should be your default setting. In the details under the setting, ensure that “psu.edu users only” appears in bold text, indicating it is set as the default. This setting applies to all new meetings scheduled after the setting was enabled.
- To review the default setting, select Edit to the right of the default @psu option. The screenshot below shows that the setting which requires user to sign in to Zoom using the psu.edu domain is set as the default authentication option.
- Select Meetings on the left-hand menu.
- Select one of your scheduled class meetings (from Upcoming).
- Scroll down and click Edit this Meeting. If the meeting is part of a recurring series, select the option to edit all occurrences.
- Scroll down to Meeting Options and ensure that the authentication settings require psu.edu sign in as described above.
- Click Save if you made changes.
Students will now be required to log in to their @psu.edu account when joining Zoom meetings. If you plan on having a guest speaker in class, change the setting to “Sign in to Zoom” for that meeting only and inform the speaker they will need to create a free Zoom account in order to join.