Recording highlights automatically shows the important parts of a cloud recorded meeting, allowing you to quickly navigate to critical information. Zoom AI highlights the most important parts of a meeting and hosts have the option to adjust or edit the highlights. Hosts can save highlights as separate files so students can either watch the highlights or a whole meeting recording.

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Zoom AI automatically highlights important parts of the meeting, but you can adjust and add highlights as needed.

Note: The audio transcript of your recording needs to be complete before you can view Zoom AI generated highlights. The audio transcript of a recording is available some time after the cloud recording is available. You will get an email when the audio transcript of your recording is ready. 

To enable recording highlights, complete the following steps. 

  1. Sign into the Zoom web portal https://telcit.zoom.us/
  2. In the navigation panel, click Settings.
  3. Click Recording. 
  4. Select the Recording highlights checkbox.
  5. Click Save. 

To review/edit highlights on a recording, complete the following steps.

  1. Sign into the Zoom web portal https://telcit.zoom.us/
  2. In the navigation panel, click Recordings and Transcripts.
  3. Click the name of the recorded meeting. You will see a list of recording files.
  4. Click Watch Highlights or the play button . The recording will open and the transcript text appears to the right of the video with highlights already added.
    5. Note: Zoom AI may not pick up any highlights of the recording. You can still add highlights to the recording yourself. If Zoom AI does not pick up any highlights, the Watch Highlights button is not available but you can still click the play button  and then add highlights. 

There are several ways in which you can adjust the highlights in a recorded meeting:

  • To highlight everything a particular speaker has said in the recording, hover over the speaker’s name and click the highlight icon Image Placeholder that appears.
  • To highlight a specific paragraph, hover over the paragraph text and click the highlight icon Image Placeholder that appears.
  • To remove a highlight from text, click the highlight icon Image Placeholderagain.
  • To select highlights directly in the playback bar, click Edit Highlights below the playback bar and add or remove highlights by dragging your cursor. When finished, click Done.

When you’re ready to share the recording with students, you can either save the highlights to a new video clip and then share the clip with them, or you can share the original recording with highlights. If you share the original recording, viewers can choose to watch either the highlights only or the full video by clicking Only play highlights.


To save highlights to a new video clip, complete the following steps.

  1. Sign into the Zoom web portal https://telcit.zoom.us/
  2. In the navigation panel, click Recordings.
  3. Click the name of the recorded meeting. You will see a list of recording files.
  4. Below the playback bar, click Save as New Clip.
  5. Enter a name for the clip, then click Save Now.
  6. Click OK to confirm. The new video clip will process and be available under the original recording. It will be indicated with Highlights in the bottom-left corner of the video thumbnail.
  7. You will receive an email called Recording highlights clip "[Clip name]" is now available. Copy the link to send the highlights clip direct to students.  
    8. Note: If students access cloud recordings through the Zoom tab in Canvas, they will only be able to access the original recording and can select Only play highlights to see just the highlights of the video. If you would prefer that students see the new video clip with just highlights, then you need to link them directly to it.