Be sure to record your Zoom session so that students can review it later. You can select whether to record to your own computer or to the cloud. Recording to the cloud is likely easier to manage, especially for long recordings, which generate very large files. You can verify in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that you are recording your session. You can find your recording by logging into Panopto.
Use Zoom’s screen sharing function to share any slides you use with students while you narrate them. Select which window on your computer you’d like to share.
For larger classes, ask your students to mute their microphones and use the Raise Hand button when they’d like to speak. For this to be most useful, be sure you are viewing the participant’s list. This may also be a place to utilize a student chat monitor. As the instructor, you can lower someone’s hand by rolling your mouse over the icon. Students have access to a variety of other non-verbal reactions, too. You can encourage them to use these reaction buttons as you move through the lecture or activity.
For group discussions, use Zoom breakout rooms. Breakout rooms allow you to assign groups of students to their own, private Zoom session either randomly or by name. As the main meeting host, you can drop into any of the breakout rooms to observe the discussion, just as you would do in a classroom. A video about breakout rooms is available here.
If you are using a tablet and pen, try sharing the Zoom whiteboard for live note-taking, formulas or equations.
There is a quick link to the meeting URL and settings in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
Note that the Settings screen allows you to change the skin tone you use for reactions in the course.
For synchronous courses; if you have your in-class students & remote students all in Zoom, be sure to have in-person students mute their mic & use a headset.
