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Using Zoom for Live Classes, Meetings, & Office Hours
Using Zoom for Live Classes, Meetings, & Office Hours
Using Zoom, students can remotely join a video session and participate in an engaging lecture or class with active learning. You can use Zoom to offer office hours to stay connected with students or to conduct meetings with others.
Once created, your personalized link will launch Zoom and connect students with your personal meeting session. These Zoom meetings offer functionality such as shared screen, breakout rooms, and chat. You can also record the sessions and make the link available to students.
NOTE: Zoom has lifted the 40 minute time limit for basic accounts! Yay!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
IMPORTANT NOTE:
As we don't have enough to think about, we want you to be aware that "zoombombing" is a new thing. Internet trolls who have too much time on their hands and are just mean are now joining or hijacking Zoom meetings and showing inappropriate content. Pay attention to your "host" controls and send the meeting links privately through email or by posting in Canvas.
NOTE: Creating a password for your meetings may be helpful in preventing Zoom trolls. Also, in your settings, make sure that you have Only the Host can Share when someone else is sharing under Screen Sharing.
Suggested Recommendations for Using Zoom
Suggested Recommendations for Using Zoom
You and your students should download the Zoom application on your device BEFORE the first class meeting. It can sometimes take up to 15 minutes. You may want to have a "practice" session the first time when you are all in the same room.
Keep your class session at the same scheduled time. For example, if you teach MWF at 10 a.m., keep your Zoom sessions to the same time frame. The students are already used to meeting at those times. The consistency will be helpful with students who may also be taking additional courses that are also meeting synchronously.
YOU MAY WANT TO ASSIGN A STUDENT TO REMIND YOU TO RECORD YOUR CLASS SESSION! Just a friendly tip...from experience.
Microphones pick up all ambient noise, so keep your mic muted until it's your time to speak.
Remember that when on-camera, other activities such as eating, drinking, and shuffling papers are extremely distracting (and sometimes unflattering).
Check out additional tips and strategies created by Julia Osteen in the College of Education: Zoom Tips for Students
You can check out the resource from Zoom on Managing Breakout Rooms. To see the how to enable Breakout Rooms, take a look at the video above (Recommended Zoom Settings) around the 3:00 minute mark.
Have some fun letting Zoom "touch up your appearance" along with setting up some virtual backgrounds. You will need to activate Virtual Backgrounds in your Zoom settings.
UPDATED: This video will show several options for sharing your Zoom recordings with students.
This video will show you how to access the Zoom audio transcript once a recording has finished processing.
A Faculty Conversation about Zoom Best Practices
A Faculty Conversation about Zoom Best Practices
Listen in to this 25-minute conversation as faculty share their best practices when using Zoom. Using Zoom for student presentations is also a topic during the conversation.
Update from Zoom on Privacy Features
Update from Zoom on Privacy Features
Best Practices for Securing Your Virtual Classroom
Dear Valued Customer,
At Zoom, ensuring the privacy and security of your meetings is our top priority. Based on feedback from our education community, we’ve recently released a product enhancement to give teachers more control over their meetings.
Host Sharing Enhancements
As of yesterday, March 26th, the screen sharing settings within your account have automatically defaulted to “Only Host”. This setting gives hosts sole permission to share content within their meetings by default.
How do I give meeting participants the ability to share?
If you’d like to give participants screen sharing permission when hosting your next meeting, simply click the arrow to the right of the Screen Sharing icon, select Advanced Sharing Options and select All Participants.
If you’d like to re-enable participant content sharing at the account level, please visit zoom.us/account/setting > In Meetings (Advanced) > and select All Participants.
If your end users would like to re-enable participant content sharing at the individual level, please visit zoom.us/profile/setting > Screen Sharing > and select All Participants.
Please reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions at support@zoom.us.
Thank You!
Team Zoom
zoom-cheat-sheet.pdfIf you have any questions or need additional support, please submit the CTL Help Request Form.
If you have any questions or need additional support, please submit the CTL Help Request Form.
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