Use Zoom Video Conferencing for Remote Learning?: Difference between revisions

Zoom is a remote conferencing program which provides a remote learning service that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, content sharing, and mobile collaboration.

Google Hangouts Meet and Zoom are both video conferencing services and, at their core, they offer similar features.  

Hangouts would be your choice if you're looking for simplicity. Hangouts works entirely over the web, with an account you already have. Zoom requires you to download an app (see details below), which boosts Zoom's features (listed below), but if you find that you don't need those features, stick with Hangouts.

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Those of you who have an existing (free) Zoom account, please follow these instructions to switch it to Riverdale's new Zoom account.

#When prompted select to switch to our community!

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If you're new to Zoom, and you're using a Mac Laptop, you can install Zoom through Self Service. If you don't have Self Service on your Mac, read [[Enroll in Self Service|this article]] for instructions on how to enroll.

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You can install Zoom from the [https://zoom.us/download Zoom Download Center].

Host controls allow you as the host to control various aspects of the Zoom Meeting, such as managing the participants. Please [https://youtu.be/ygZ96J_z4AY Watch this Video] for an overview of how this works.

On the Zoom menu bar you can easily mute/unmute your audio, and disable/enable video.  

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The Participants Panel will allow you to select a specific participant to mute. To mute a specific participant, hover over the participant's name and the “Mute” button will appear. Select the “Mute” button to turn off the participant's audio. See more on participant management in the section below.

Hosts and co-hosts can click Manage Participants in the host controls bar to display the participants list:

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'''Lock meeting:''' Don't allow other participants to join the meeting in progress.

Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, and can switch between sessions at any time.

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After creating the breakout rooms, click Options to view additional Breakout Rooms options.

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'''Countdown after closing breakout rooms:''' If this option is checked, the participants will be given a countdown of how much time they have left before being returned to the main room.

In the host controls, click the arrow next to Share Screen and click Advanced Sharing Options.

Close the window.

The in-meeting chat allows you to send chat messages to other users within a meeting. You can send a private message to an individual user or you can send a message to an entire group. As the host, you can choose who the participants can chat with or to disable chat entirely.

In-meeting chat can be saved manually or automatically.

*While in a meeting, click Chat in the meeting controls.

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*This will open the chat on the right. You can type a message into the chat box or click on the drop down next to '''To:''' if you want to send a message to a specific person.

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*When new chat messages are sent to you or everyone, a preview of the message will appear and Chat will flash orange in your host controls.

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'''Annotation tools'''

You will see these annotation tools:

Here's how students can annotate your screen while you're presenting, or vice versa. While viewing a shared screen or shared whiteboard, click View Options > Annotate at the top.

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If you started the shared screen or whiteboard, click More in the screen share controls for these annotation settings:

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Install the [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-scheduler/kgjfgplpablkjnlkjmjdecgdpfankdle?hl=en-US Zoom Scheduler Extension] for Google Chrome.  

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[https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/covid19.html This is a special support site] from Zoom which contains Demos, Tutorials, and a Blog for new users (like us!).