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Zoom - Importing scheduled meetings into your calendar

Here you can read about how to import a Zoom meeting that has already been scheduled in your Outlook calendar.

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About planning meetings and the calendar

You can plan meetings in Zoom either through the browser or in Zoom's desktop client. Zoom also has a plug-in for Outlook that allows you to schedule and invite to meetings directly from your calendar. Read more about how to download Zoom here - Zoom video lectures.

Importing a scheduled meeting from the desktop client

  1. Open the desktop client and click on Meetings.
    The Zoom desktop client, along with an arrow pointing to the Meeting button
  2. Select the meeting that you wish to import into your calendar, and then click Edit. This will take you to the meeting scheduler.
    The meetings tab in Zoom has been opened, and it shows the edit button for the selected meeting
  3. Scroll down towards the bottom of the meeting scheduler, where you will find a section entitled Calendar - tick off the box next to Outlook to import the meeting into your NTNU calendar. Next, click Save.
    The edit window for a scheduled Zoom meeting. An arrow is pointing at the Outlook calendar
    The edit window for a scheduled Zoom meeting. An arrow is pointing at the save button, which saves edits.
  4. A draft for a calendar event should now have appeared, which you can save in your calendar by clicking Send.
    The image shows the meeting popping up as a calendar event in Outlook

Importing a scheduled meeting from the browser client

  1. After you have logged in to the browser version, go to Meetings in the left-hand menu.
    Meeting overview in Zoom's web portal
  2. Here you will find an overview of upcoming meetings. Click on the name of the meeting you wish to import into your calendar.
    An arrow is pointing to the topic of a given meeting in the web portal's meeting overview.
  3. You will now see details about the meeting. Under "Time", you have the ability to import the meeting into your Outlook calendar. Click on Outlook Calendar (.ics).
    Edit window for a meeting in Zoom's web portal. An arrow is pointing to the button for importing the meeting into an Outlook calendar.
  4. You have now downloaded a file containing the calendar event, which you must open in Outlook. To do this, click on the file you downloaded (the download will typically pop up in your web browser; if not, you can find it under "downloads" in your local files). If you are asked to select a program to open the file with, select Outlook.
  5. A draft of the calendar event should now have appeared, which you can save in your calendar by clicking Save & Close.
    The image shows the meeting popping up as a calendar event in Outlook.

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