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BENEFITS OF ZOOM FOR REMOTE INSTRUCTION

• Waiting room:

  • Push participants to the waiting room

  • Send a message to the waiting room

  • Allow everyone or just some in from the waiting room.

• You are notified if someone attempts to join your meeting when you are not there.

• Takes attendance for every meeting

  • Data on: Who came in

  • Arrival time, how long they stayed and if they logged off and back in with time stamps

    • Reports>Usage reports>Usage you can look at up to 30 days of reports at once, click the number of participants scroll right to see the link number off screen

  • Downloadable reports.

• Breakout rooms

• Polling

• Whiteboard

  • Screen Annotation

• Screen sharing

  • Includes giving someone the "remote" which is useful for troubleshooting problems (You are able to control a students screen in that example)

• Recording saves the video & audio, the chat, the video separate, the audio separate and more

  • Options to record just the shared screen, the speaker view or another view

  • Save a chat

• Option to require registration

  • What you name the meeting is what participants will see when they join, even if it's at the wrong time

  • You can put the subject, period and class time, so if a student joins at the wrong time they know when they try to join as opposed to waiting for the class to start

• You can remove privileges on the fly

  • Chat only host

  • Chat everyone

  • No one can chat

  • Participants can or cannot unmute themselves

  • Participants can or cannot annotate the shared screen

  • Participants can or cannot share their screen

  • Make someone co-host, give someone else full host privileges

• Option to assign your co-teachers and/or para's to co-host in the meeting setup

Additional Tips:

• After October 16, 2020 you will no longer be able to use a personalized Zoom room link for meetings. For security reasons, all meetings must be scheduled individually with the proper settings.

  • Now that personal meeting rooms have been disabled, you can set a recurring meeting with no fixed recurring time and just use that repeatedly

  • How to schedule a secure Zoom meeting

• Students don't have access to Zoom because they are not logged in to their student accounts:

  • Log out of Zoom

  • Select SSO (Looks different for laptop vs. iPad)

  • Type NYCDOE if it is not already there.

  • Log into the NYC screen with username (without @nycstudents.net)

  • Video Tutorial on How to Reset Zoom to SSO

• How to enable an audio notification when a student enters your Zoom and the participation screen isn't up:

  • While in a meeting, click on "Participants", then the "..." icon, then check play sound. There's no way to have this on by default so hosts must remember to do it every time.