ZOOM

Muting All - Use this feature when you need to mute your entire group all at once.

Recurring Meeting - This is perfect for scheduling class meetings that happen each day.

Basic Troubleshooting Tips - Students not coming through clear? Video glitching? Talking with no sound? Audio too loud? This video is for you.

Rules and Expectations - A PDF of picture cues to use with the class.

Waiting Room - How to admit from the waiting room. Remember you can also click on the 3 dots on a participant during a meeting and put them back in the waiting room.

In Meeting Chat and Chat Settings - This will show how to turn chat on and off and how to send messages to everyone or private messages.

Screen Sharing - There are lots of tips in this video related to screen sharing:

• 1. • 00:30 Keyboard Shortcuts for Sharing Your Zoom Screen

     • 01:26 How to Stop Participants From Zoom Screen Sharing

     • 03:46 How to Optimize Zoom Screen Sharing for Video

     • 05:00 How to Share Only a Section of Your Zoom Screen

     • 06:45 How to Poll Your Zoom Participants

     • 12:03 How to Annotate Your Shared Zoom Screen

     • 12:59 How to Stop Participants From Annotating in Zoom

Co-host - This is an important feature when you have another adult in the Zoom with you.

Recording a Meeting - A way to record your class sessions or to record lessons to share with the class for asynchronous lessons.

Hand Raising & Reactions - You may use this feature to interact with students while they are on mute. They can raise their hand and send a few reaction emojis that will appear in their video window.

Turning Off Student Camera/Remove/Waiting Room - Features to be familiar with in order to regulate student video feeds.

Gallery to Speaker View - This is not only a key feature for you to know so you can view your class, but is also important to teach your students so they can change the group view as well.

Spotlight VS Pin a Video - Use this feature to view students or yourself as the only video being presented to everyone (spotlight) and to view a particular student on just your device (pin).

Renaming - Do you have a student who has logged in and their name is not there or is incorrect? There is an easy way to fix this.

Breakout Rooms - This is a wonderful way to give students an individual room to be in to work (and you can pop in and visit them), and a place for small group with a specialist to happen while you continue to teach in the main room. Read below for some specifics.

• Pre-naming a Breakout Room - You can have different subjects or topics for breakout rooms, set these so they are recurring.

• Rules and Expectations - A PDF copy that you can use with your students.

• General Tips and Tricks - Some quick tips including:

  • 00:26 Mute All Zoom Participants Keyboard Shortcut

  • 01:58 Hide Floating Zoom Control Panel

  • 03:15 Turn Off Zoom Video by Default

  • 04:30 Virtual Backgrounds for Zoom

  • 06:04 Zoom Calendar Add-on for Google & Outlook

  • 07:59 New Share and Pause Share When Sharing Zoom Screen

  • 10:23 How to Annotate in Zoom

• Ideas for Breakout Rooms

Spotlight VS Pin a Video - Use this feature to view students or yourself as the only video being presented to everyone (spotlight) and to view a particular student on just your device (pin).

Whiteboard Screen Share - Go to 1:40 in the video to jump to Whiteboard use and settings.

Annotations - Write over a screen share, use a spotlight (laser pointer), and type text over any screen share including videos.

Two Devices Suggestions - Do you wonder why some teachers have more than one computer logged in to their Zoom session? Here is a quick video showing some suggestions for using more than one device.

How to Share a Partial Screen - Want to share only a part of your screen so you can do something else with the other part of your screen?

Chat with Just the Teacher - There is a setting in "chat" which will allow for participants to only send a chat to you and not to the entire group or to send private chats to others (*Co-Hosts do not see these chats either).

Breakout Rooms and Multi-device and Monitoring - This takes some planning but you can have several windows open in order to monitor multiple breakout rooms.

Polling - A tool to use to check for understanding or to get feedback from students. You can set this up ahead of time or can do a poll while in the Zoom session.

• • Go to 6:45 for description of POLLING

Airplay - How to connect your iPad or iPhone to your Zoom via Airplay.

Using Virtual Backgrounds and Filters - Just some fun to see if the students are paying attention. (And directions to make sure you have updated your Zoom online.)

10 Rules When Teaching Online with Zoom - Some key points from the video:

• How to Minimize Zoom

• How to Use Breakout Rooms

• Why Does the Screen Share Keep Changing?

• Why Has the Zoom Window Disappeared?

• How Can I Share Content with My Students in the Breakout Rooms?

• Why Can't My Students Hear When I'm Playing a Video?

• Why Does the Chat Window Open in the Middle of the Screen?

• Why Does the Participant's List Open in the Middle of the Screen?

• How Can the Participants Update Their Names?

• How Can I Send a Message to Students When They are in Breakout Rooms?

• How Can I Move People in Breakout Rooms to Different Rooms?