Creating a Meeting Room

1. Logon to Connect - Open a web browser and enter http://connect.rit.edu into the address bar. Use your RIT Computer Account.
   
   
2. List Meetings - Click Meetings located at the top menu of the page.Then click New Meeting to create a new meeting room.
   
   
   
   
3. Meeting Information - Fill in the information on the Meeting Information page then click Next.
   1. (3A) Start Time: Meeting start time is only for reference if you send an invitation from Connect Meeting. The meeting room will be available before the meeting time and will remain available indefinitely after the meeting has ended.
   2. (3B) Recommended Meeting Access: RIT Faculty, Staff, and students who have been added as participants to the meeting beforehand are all registered users. Persons affiliated with RIT will use their RIT Computer Account (DCE) to log-in to Connect Meeting. Those not affiliated with RIT will need to log-in as a guest and you will need to accept them in at the time they log-in.
      
      
      
4. Select Participants - If your meeting is set up so only registered users can log-in to your meeting you will need to add them as a participants.
   1. (4A) From the Available Users and Groups list located to the left, use the Search option at the bottom to locate a group (i.e. course number) or an individual user you want to add.
   2. (4B) You may need to create your course group first so that it appears in the Available Users and Groups.  Detailed instructions can be found here.

   3. (4C) Once you have found the users or groups in your search highlight the name and click Add button. This will move the name over to the Current Participants list to the right.
      

      You will need to ‘create’ your course number or specific participants to Connect Meeting if you do not find them after searching in the Available Users and Groups box. Review these instructions on how to add your course number. If you are having difficulty please contact Teaching & Learning Support at tlsupport@rit.edu or 585-475-2551.

5. Send Invitations (Optional) - You can choose to send an invitation to users that are registered for your course. If you do not want to send an invitation, then you can copy the meeting URL from the Meeting Information that will appear after clicking Finish.
   
   
   
6. Click Finish to complete creating a meeting room, you will get the URL to that meeting room that you can send to your participants.