Zoom Integration

Connecting Zoom lets Academy LMS create Zoom meetings for you and show them inside your courses. You build one app in the Zoom App Marketplace, paste three credentials into Academy, and after that every live class you schedule gets its own Zoom link, meeting ID and password automatically.

Note: Zoom is one of the two providers in the Pro Meeting addon. You need Academy LMS (free) and Academy LMS Pro active, the Meeting addon on, and a Zoom account that can create apps.

Before you start

Academy needs a Server to Server OAuth app. Zoom retired the older JWT app type, so a JWT app will not connect.

Step 1: Turn on the Meeting addon

Go to Academy LMS → Add-ons, search for Meeting, and switch the toggle on. Zoom is not a separate addon, it is a provider inside this one.

Step 2: Open the Zoom setup

Go to Academy LMS → Meeting and click Add New Meeting. Academy shows the two providers it supports. On the Zoom card, click Setup API.

Leave this dialog open. You will come back to it in Step 8 with three values from Zoom.

Part 1: Build the app in Zoom

The next six steps happen in the Zoom App Marketplace, in a separate tab. Zoom adjusts this interface from time to time, so a button may sit somewhere slightly different from the picture.

Step 3: Sign in to the App Marketplace

Open the Zoom App Marketplace and sign in with the account that should own the meetings. Every meeting Academy creates will belong to this account.

Step 4: Start a new app

Open the Develop menu and choose Build App, or open Manage to see apps you already have.

Choose the Server to Server OAuth app type. This is the type Academy supports. Do not pick a JWT app.

Step 5: Name the app

Give the app a name. Only you see it, so something like your site name works well.

Step 6: Fill in the app information

Zoom asks for basic company and contact details before it will let you activate the app.

Complete the basic information, including a contact name and email.

Step 7: Copy the credentials

Open the App Credentials page. It shows the three values Academy needs: Account ID, Client ID and Client Secret, each with a Copy button.

Keep this tab open, or paste the three values somewhere safe for a moment. Treat the client secret like a password.

Step 8: Add the scopes and activate

Open the Scopes section of the app.

Click Add Scopes.

Search for the meeting scopes and tick the ones that let the app create and read meetings, then confirm. Without these Zoom will authenticate but refuse to make meetings.

Finally open Activation and activate the app. An app that is not activated will not issue tokens.

Part 2: Finish in Academy

Step 9: Paste the credentials

Back in the Zoom Setup dialog, fill the three fields in order:

Academy asks Zoom for an access token before it saves anything, so a mistake in any of the three is reported at once rather than surfacing later when you try to schedule a class.

After it connects

Go back to Academy LMS → Meeting and click Add New Meeting. Zoom no longer asks for setup, and you get the meeting form instead. Fill in the title, the start time and the duration, and Academy creates the meeting in Zoom and stores what comes back.

The meeting then appears on the Meeting screen with its Meeting Token and Password filled in from Zoom. Add it to a course from the course Builder, and enrolled students join from the curriculum.

Migrating from a JWT app

If your site was connected with the old JWT credentials, that app type is no longer supported and the connection will fail. Build a Server to Server OAuth app as in Part 1 and save its three credentials over the old ones. Meetings you already created keep their links, since those are stored on the meeting itself.

Troubleshooting