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Zoom Guidance

Please click on the categories below for information and resources.

**To protect privacy, meeting links, passwords, and recordings should be shared responsibly**

There are some settings to consider when setting up Zoom for instruction:

Personalize your passwords to assist with memory and ease of use
Mute participants upon entry
Turn nonverbal feedback on
Set class norms - review them and hold students accountable for them
Break meetings up intro small bit-sized chunks (offer step away from the computer breaks)

Meeting links can be shared in 3 ways:

There are some basic ways to offer participation in a virtual meeting:

ALL synchronous meetings should have a clear and stated purpose
Assign "Class Duties" (e.g. Discussion Leader, Chat Monitor, Attendance Checker)
Offer multiple ways to participate (verbal, chat, collaborative space, non-verbal signal)
Use collaborative space (Google Slides or Doc, Padlet, etc)
Utilize Co-Hosts to assign students leadership roles
Consider times when annotation is instructionally beneficial
Using the Whiteboard feature can be useful particularly for demonstration (you can autosave this!)

Here are suggestions for connecting to the humans in a virtual meeting:

Breakout Rooms are AMAZING! Consider these ideas:

Breakout rooms for exploring, practicing skills, sharing, and solving problems.
Can be in dyads, triads, or small groups
Can be by topics or skills
Can be selected by students or teacher
Can use whiteboards or share screens in breakout rooms
Consider appointing a Room facilitator and a time keeper
You don't even need to have a whol, they can enter the meeting and go straight into a breakout room to work with peers!

Screensharing should be used purposefully and intentionally:

Examples for screensharing are demonstrations, sharing of results, agenda sharing, source for activity, and more!
Generally, limit to host only, but consider when there are times to allow participants to share screens (e.g. sharing work or walking a student though how to do a task)
You can select what you share by selecting the entire desktop, a window, or a portion of a screen

There are some clear considerations when recording sessions:

Don't start the recording until the meeting actually starts (avoid recording the hang out time waiting to start or additional questions at the end)
Maintain privacy - The students' faces and names are in the recordings so they should only be shared in private venues. Images of Zoom meetings are also inappropriate in a public venue unless all participants are approved for publishing on the internet. (Even then, it is appropriate to ask the students' permission.)