Zoom Service Level Agreement
1 General Overview
This is a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between the UC Berkeley campus community and Berkeley Information Technology (bIT) to document:
- Zoom Service Description
- General levels of response, availability, and maintenance associated with this service
- Responsibilities of bIT as a provider of these services
- Responsibilities of the clients receiving these services
This Agreement is valid from July 2020. Review will be completed every year, or as otherwise needed.
2 Service Description
2.1 Service Scope
Zoom is a feature-rich web collaboration service available to all UC Berkeley registered students, faculty, and staff. Zoom offers video-conferencing capabilities such as breakout rooms, screen sharing, whiteboard and annotation, polling, delegation of scheduling or hosting, participant chat, recording and more. Participants can choose between computer audio or telephone dial-in toll number for voice connections and Windows, Mac, iOS or Android smartphones and tablets for web and/or video conferencing viewing.
2.2 Service Offerings
There are multiple types of UC Berkeley Zoom accounts available:
Type of Zoom Accounts |
Description |
Who is eligible? |
Zoom Licensed (Pro) |
Licensed account holders can host meetings with unlimited minutes for up to 300 participants. |
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Zoom Basic |
Basic account holders have a 40 minute limit on group meetings, with up to 100 participants, and unlimited 1 to 1 meetings. |
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Note: CalNet Sponsored Guests are not eligible for UC Berkeley Zoom accounts.
Additional Zoom offerings can be acquired through the Telecom Catalog System such as:
- HIPAA compliant Zoom
- Large Meeting licenses (500, 1000 participants)
- Webinar licenses (500, 1000, 3000, 5000, 10,000 participants)
- Zoom Licensed “Plus” features (toll-free numbers and in-meeting call-out)
For associated costs, see: Zoom Service Description & Pricing Information
2.3 Operating Parameters
The Zoom service is provided to people who work for or attend UC Berkeley, including faculty, staff, students, and others for UC Berkeley related business, education and research.
2.4 Service Level Performance
For support requests submitted online via ServiceNow, response times will be tracked and reported as part of the bIT and Campus SLA.
3 Roles and Responsibilities
3.1 Parties
The following Service Owner(s) will be used as the basis of the Agreement and represent the primary stakeholders associated with this SLA:
Stakeholder |
Title/Role |
Contact Information |
Jon Hays |
IT Service Manager | |
Lexie Patten |
Zoom Service Lead |
3.2 bIT Responsibilities
bIT responsibilities and/or requirements in support of this Agreement include:
- Manage Zoom environment for UC Berkeley
- Manage Zoom add-on and integration requests
- Meet response times associated with the priority assigned to incidents and service requests in the IT Request ticketing system (ServiceNow)
- Post scheduled changes on the bIT Change Management calendar, notify IT managers and campus business partners, and notify all faculty, staff, and students when needed
- Follow the principle of least perusal, policy for access without consent, and other specifications in the UC Electronic Communications Policy
3.3 Client Responsibilities
Client responsibilities and/or requirements in support of this Agreement include:
- Adherence to the following policies:
- Zoom cloud recording is intended for temporary storage of UC Berkeley related meetings. Effective January 6, 2021, all Zoom Cloud recordings will be copied to Kaltura. Learn more: https://dls.berkeley.edu/frequently-asked-questions-about-zoom-kaltura-integration
- Contact the bIT Service Manager for additions or changes in established service levels
- Faculty, staff and student employees should contact the ITCS Service Desk for incidents
- Faculty requiring assistance with using Zoom for instruction should book a virtual or in-person consultation through Digital Learning Services (DLS)
- Students should contact the Student Help Desk for incidents
- Anyone who experiences attacks during a Zoom meeting on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation or other protected category, or is sexually explicit, should report the incident to zoom-misuse@berkeley.edu
4 Requesting Service
- Order Zoom add-ons through Telecom Catalog System
- Online/IT Request: https://berkeley.service-now.com/ess/create_incident
- Phone: 510-664-9000
- Email zoom-help@berkeley.edu
5 Hours of Coverage, Response Times and Escalation
For all requests, the bIT goal is to have a staff member assigned and acknowledge requests within four business hours of receipt. Campus priorities may require exceptions to this goal during certain periods of the Academic year.
5.1 Hours of Coverage
Zoom Service staff coverage is provided 8AM - 5PM, Monday - Friday except for holidays and campus closure.
5.2 Incident Response, Prioritization, Escalation, Service Request
Zoom service disruptions that impact essential campus business or are identified as impacting a division or the entire campus, will be responded to by the Zoom Service Team as soon as they learn about the outage. Information about Zoom service disruptions is available at https://status.zoom.us/
6 Maintenance and Service Changes
The Zoom Service abides by the standard maintenance and service change process whenever possible. Changes are listed on the Berkeley System Status page: http://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/
7 Pricing
Eligible Zoom Licensed (Pro) accounts are funded through the Productivity Suite tax and Student Technology Fee, and have no direct charge to users. Additional Zoom add-on services (such as webinars) can be purchased or acquired through the Telecom Catalog System.
8 Reviewing and Reporting
First-contact response time to incidents and service requests are published here: https://berkeley.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0013436