Differences between Zoom accounts at SFU

Summary

See the differences between student and staff/faculty Zoom accounts at SFU.

Body

Power User refers to staff and faculty as they interact more often with these services. Regular User refers to students.

	Faculty & Staff	Students
Host meetings	✓	✓
Require a password for meetings	✓	✓
Chat, Polling, Screen sharing, Annotation, Whiteboard, Breakout Room	✓	✓
File Transfer	✓	✓
Waiting room	✓	✓
Local Recording	✓	✓
Cloud recording	✓	x
Participants join before host	✓	x
Option for Waiting Room	✓	x
Remote control	✓	x
Language interpretation	✓	x

Details

Article ID: 4073

Created

Tue 7/12/22 6:22 PM

Modified

Fri 12/5/25 2:31 PM

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