Zoom Playgrounds
Welcome to Zoom Playgrounds
Are you a tactile learner looking for some hands-on training within the Zoom platform? Are you a new/returning faculty member looking for a way to practice with Zoom’s features before your upcoming live session? Are you curious about what your students see during your live sessions? Then slide on over to a Zoom Playground!
When attending a Zoom Playground session, a Faculty Trainer will provide a space where faculty can play with one to three features or processes in a Zoom classroom setting. You will engage in guided exercises as both a student and an instructor, to increase your level of comfort with utilizing the online classroom technology.
Register for a Zoom Playground:
Playground Topics
Breakout Rooms
What's covered:
Assign and shuffle participants into different breakout rooms
Adjust various setting options
Share information through the chat
Broadcast a message
Experience the “Ask for Help” notification
Visit breakout rooms in session
End a breakout session
Screen and Video Sharing
What's covered:
Share your screen
Share a video with sound
Pause screen sharing
Open and share a document on your computer
Open the chat and participants list while screen sharing
Move and adjust the webcam view as both host and participant
As host, stop a participants share
WhiteboardS & Annotations
What's covered:
Share a whiteboard
Annotate on the whiteboard using different shapes, colors, and texts as both host and participant
Select, move, and adjust whiteboard drawings and texts
Delete and undo an annotation
Use the spotlight function
Save whiteboard annotations and locate them on your computer
Video Settings & Virtual backgrounds
What's covered:
Review the requirements for using a virtual background
Use a default virtual background
Add an image as a custom virtual background
See what backdrops work best with virtual backgrounds
Rotate a webcam image
Review various other video settings and their functions
Cloud Documents
What's covered:
Review the different types of cloud documents
Share a cloud document with others
Add comments and tag someone to a specific section of a cloud document
View edits as they occur in real time
Polling Options
What's covered:
Practice using Google Forms for polling
Practice using the whiteboard for polling
Review using the chat for polling
Review third party polling applications
Security
What's covered:
Disabling students’ ability to screen share
Disabling students’ ability to annotate over presentations
Disabling the chat
Stopping a student’s webcam during class