Add an Official UTHSC Zoom Background

Zoom allow for personalized virtual backgrounds. Communications and Marketing has created several official backgrounds for use by faculty, staff, and students.

  1. Visit Zoom and Teams Backgrounds to download an image.
    Windows Users: You will need to open your Downloads folder and double-click the .zip file you just downloaded. Drag the .png file in that folder to the Downloads folder.
  2. Open Zoom app from your desktop (not the Zoom website).
  3. Click on your Profile (top right), then select Settings.
  4. Click Backgrounds and effects.
  5. Select the + button at the end of Virtual backgrounds and select Add Image.
  6. Double-click the UTHSC Zoom background image located in your Downloads folder.
  7. Click the X (Mac: top left corner; Windows: top right corner) to close.

To delete a background, click to select it, then click the X. A dialog box will ask if you are sure you want to delete. Click the Delete button.

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This is not something that any UTHSC faculty, staff or student needs to request. You already should have one. By logging in with your SSO into tennessee.zoom.us, you are accessing your UT Zoom Licensed (Pro) account. However, if you are not using Single Sign On or SSO to login, you will not see it.