Locking a Meeting

Locking a meeting will not allow any more new attendees once all your students have joined you can lock the meeting to prevent un-authorized people from joining

Click on Manage Participants
Click More
Click on Lock Meeting

Recording a Meeting

When in the meeting, click the Record button.

Attendees will receive a pop-up box informing them that the meeting is being recorded. If they consent to being recorded, they must press Continue, otherwise they can press Leave Meeting and will be kicked out.

Recording a Class for Distribution

Start a Zoom meeting.
Press the Record button
Teach your Lesson
End Meeting
It will ask where you would like to save your recording, save it somewhere you will remember.

Important Zoom Controls

Managing Participants : As the host of the meeting/class you can manage participants. This includes renaming, muting, and stopping their video. These will be useful if hosting a live class/meeting.

Video ON/OFF: Once in a meeting, you can turn your video on by clicking the ‘Start Video’ icon on the bottom left of your screen. To turn it off click the ‘Stop Video’ icon.

Muting: To ensure minimal background noise, it is HIGHLY recommended that you mute everyone on the call when they are not talking. This feature is turned on by default.

Chat in a Meeting: Meeting participants can ask questions during the meeting via the chat. Start by clicking on the Chat icon on the bottom right of your screen.

Sharing Screen: Click the Share Screen icon at the bottom of your screen to share your desktop.
- If you’d like to share specific windows or applications, you can choose to do so from the dialog box.

Sharing Screen and Audio from Computer:

When you are sharing your screen, there's a checkbox in the bottom left that you need to check for this to work, called "Share computer sound"

Ending a Meeting

When ending, press End Meeting
Be sure to press "End Meeting for All", otherwise students will remain in the meeting with themselves.

Using Breakout Rooms in Zoom

Click on the Breakout Rooms to open the controls:
Pick the following options:
1. How many rooms do you want to create?
2. Do you want to sort the students yourself (Manually) or do you want them to be assigned randomly (Automatically)
3. Create the room(s)
Click by the room to assign the students via drop down - and then click Open All Rooms
Once students are in the breakout rooms, click Join to enter a breakout room of your choice
To leave the breakout room, and return to the main meeting room, click Leave
To end the breakout rooms, and put everyone back into the main meeting room, click Close All Rooms
An additional feature is Broadcast a message to All use this to send a chat message to all students in all Breakout rooms

Tips for Virtual Lessons

For your first class, set aside some time to introduce your students to Zoom, and ensure they’re able to connect their video and audio.
Give an agenda or plan for each class by Screen Sharing a slide or document at the beginning of class.
Discuss online etiquette and expectations of the students in your first virtual class and periodically revisit these topics.
Allow for time to answer questions that your class has submitted. Consider letting them ask the questions ‘live’ by un-muting them after they have indicated they have a question via the chat feature.

Tips for Content Delivery

Look at the camera and make eye-contact with your students. This helps create a more personal connection while teaching class over video.
Take a second to check the chat, to check in with your students and get feedback.
Speak as if you’re face-to-face with the class, while ensuring you’re at the appropriate distance from the microphone. It is always okay to ask for feedback from students if they can hear you, or if you are too loud/too quiet.
When delivering a presentation, sharing images, files, or video - give your students a moment to open or take in what you’ve shared.
Embrace the pause. Take a moment after the end of your comments, and allow for students to engage before continuing on.

Student Troubleshooting

If a student’s audio/video is choppy, their internet may be under heavy use (bandwidth issue). Have the student turn off any other items using a lot of bandwidth (Netflix, Youtube videos, video game downloads).
If the entire class is receiving choppy audio/video, the bandwidth issue may be on your end.
Some student’s internet connections simply may not be able to handle Zoom. In this case, it may be better for them to watch a video later, rather than watch the live session.

Additional Resources:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/203650445-In-Meeting-Chat

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/216378603-Generating-Meeting-Reports-for-Registration-and-Polling

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476093-Getting-Started-with-Breakout-Rooms

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205677665-Sharing-a-whiteboard

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005706806-Using-annotation-tools-on-a-shared-screen-or-whiteboard