Academic Innovation Zoom Guide for Faculty

Teaching Live-Online With Zoom

As you prepare to teach live-online, our Live-Online Setup Checklist will ensure you’ve covered all your bases. It includes all steps, from sending out the invite, to seeing who is present, to setting ground rules and expectations.

Read on for evidence-based practices and tools to help you engage learners and leverage the great features Zoom and other technologies have to offer. These options are ideal for teaching Live-Online, as well as for your In-Person, Blended, or HyFlex classrooms.

Active Learning Strategies for Live-Online Group Work

Collaborative Writing

Using Zoom’s Whiteboard Feature to Collaborate and Brainstorm During a Live Zoom Session

Poll & Discuss

Think-Pair-Share: Smaller Group Work

Large Group Discussions: Tools to Reflect and Share

Instructional Strategies for Group Work in a New Environment

Active Learning Strategies for Live-Online Group Work

These tools facilitate collaborative brainstorming, writing, and notetaking. They also encourage student social engagement, connectedness, and belonging.

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Collaborative Writing

Google Docs

Padlet Uses

Backchannel
- Nine Uses for Backchannel in Education
Timeline
Grid
Map

Using Zoom’s Whiteboard Feature to Collaborate and Brainstorm During a Live Zoom Session

Zoom Whiteboard
Video: How to Present a Zoom Whiteboard Lecture using your computer, plus an iPad/tablet, and either an Apple Pencil or another digital stylus, such as the more affordable Logitech Crayon.
Google Drawing
Zoom annotation

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Poll & Discuss

Zoom Polling
- Overview - video and written
- Review 3 Ways to Use Polls in Meetings
Poll Everywhere for HE
- Create an interactive classroom experience online
- Sign up for a free account
  - Note: Free accounts are limited to 25 max responses/answers (not participants) per poll
Discussion
- Zoom: Questioning Strategies to Increase Engagement

Think-Pair-Share: Smaller Group Work

Zoom Breakout Groups (also, see links below for more information)
Written responses to a partner in a collaborative Google Doc

Large Group Discussions: Tools to Reflect and Share

Zoom Chat
Ideas for using Poll Everywhere and Zoom Chat

Instructional Strategies for Group Work in a New Environment

When you can’t physically break your class into smaller work groups, Zoom offers options to keep students engaged. These creative instructional strategies can be used in physically distanced classrooms, online, and in a HyFlex model.

Engaging Questions

Faculty often express concern about student engagement during live lectures in Zoom. When students are remote, it can be challenging to ‘read the room’. This article provides concrete examples of questioning strategies to ensure students remain engaged during your Zoom classes.

Backchannel: Creating Opportunities for Informal Student Interactions

Create "backchannel" opportunities for students to engage less formally using any of the above tools, or the suggestions in this article Nine Uses for Backchannel in Education.

Supporting Remote Learners

Faculty play a critical role in supporting remote learners. Our worksheet will show you how.

Accessibility

Visit Zoom’s Accessibility Features page to review features for diverse users.

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Teaching Live-Online With Zoom

Contents

Active Learning Strategies for Live-Online Group Work

Collaborative Writing

Using Zoom’s Whiteboard Feature to Collaborate and Brainstorm During a Live Zoom Session

Poll & Discuss

Think-Pair-Share: Smaller Group Work

Large Group Discussions: Tools to Reflect and Share

Instructional Strategies for Group Work in a New Environment

More on Breakout Rooms

Engaging Questions

Backchannel: Creating Opportunities for Informal Student Interactions

Supporting Remote Learners