In March of 2026 the Seminary renewed its Zoom license and with the new Zoom licensing model new features became available to faculty, staff, and students. Below are summaries of the best new features.

Zoom Scheduler

Do you want to have online office hours? Do you regularly meet with people outside of the Seminary and don’t want to go back-and-forth to figure out a time that works? Do you want to create a poll for people on a committee to say when they can meet? Zoom scheduler can help do all these things.

• You’ll want to connect your Google Calendar to Zoom for the scheduling. This Zoom article can help with that.
• Then you’ll want to set up your booking page (see this Zoom article).

Zoom Clips

Do you want to make a short professional looking video that combines your computer screen and your video in one talking head video? Do you need to send someone a short clip of how to do something? Do you want to annotate the computer screen as you talk? Zoom Clips can do all these things. See an example below.

The captions will show up when you view the clip in the Zoom cloud (like this link).

Or you can create an AI avatar to read a script for you in a Zoom Clip. The video and audio will be all AI generated. See this example below. Please note that you can only create 3 minutes of AI avatars a month.

Features For Students

• Zoom Meetings for up to 300 participants for up to 30 hours per meeting
• Zoom Whiteboards (unlimited) [Product Info] [Help Page]
• Zoom Scheduler (Link Zoom to your Google Calendar and let anyone self-schedule into your defined slots. This is like Calendly or other services.) [Product Info] [Help Page]
• Zoom Clips (Create and edit short clips and share them. Plus you can create an AI avatar to read a script when you don’t have time to record yourself.) [Product Info] [Help Page]
  • In your Zoom App click the “More” button to find Clips
    • You may wish to turn off Clip Comments in your Zoom Settings.
  • AI Avatar info: [Product Info] [Help Page]
    • This is turned off by default. To turn it on look in your Zoom Settings.

Features For Faculty and Staff

• Zoom Meetings for up to 500 participants for up to 30 hours per meeting
• Zoom Webinars for up to 500 attendees
• Zoom Whiteboards (unlimited) [Product Info] [Help Page]
• Zoom Scheduler (Link Zoom to your Google Calendar and let anyone self-schedule into your defined slots. This is like Calendly or other services.) [Product Info] [Help Page]
• Zoom Clips (Create and edit short clips and share them. Plus you can create an AI avatar to read a script when you don’t have time to record yourself.) [Product Info] [Help Page]
  • In your Zoom App click the “More” button to find Clips
    • You may wish to turn off Clip Comments in your Zoom Settings.
  • AI Avatar info: [Product Info] [Help Page]
    • This is turned off by default. To turn it on look in your Zoom Settings.