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.
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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
Backchannel
Timeline
Grid
Map
Using Zoom’s Whiteboard Feature to Collaborate and Brainstorm During a Live Zoom Session
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.
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Poll & Discuss
Zoom Polling
Overview - video and written
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
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
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.
More on Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms can provide students with opportunities to collaborate and engage with one another.
This Zoom support page has videos and step-by-step instructions on how to get started with Breakout Rooms. Includes settings for hosts, pre-assigning participants to Breakout Rooms, and management of Breakout Rooms.
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.