PowerPoint has built in audio features that are great for adding audio to slides to create mini lectures and presentations that are easy to edit.

This article contains the steps for instructors to follow to create a Zoom virtual room and link within a Blackboard course, using the Blackboard/Zoom integration.

Zoom is a cloud-based videoconferencing and collaboration platform. With Zoom you have the flexibility to create virtual classrooms and invite students to join from their desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Students can also share content from their devices such as PowerPoint presentations, and YouTube videos.  Zoom is available to all faculty, staff, and students for academic purposes.

The Zoom for Outlook add-in is designed to allow you to add Zoom meetings to any new or existing calendar events, edit or update Zoom meeting settings, and even schedule meetings on behalf of other Zoom hosts within Outlook web and desktop apps.