7 Things You Should Know About Zoom

7 Things about Zoom

Mark Summey, Instructional Designer

1. Lecture Capture
   Flip your face-to-face classroom or just post your lectures for students to review. Canvas uses several integrations to post your lectures in the course. Panopto, Kaltura (My Media), and Zoom are all integrated to seamlessly provide video for students. Since these applications are not part of the Canvas platform, the video file storage will not count against the file storage limit for your course. You can even set your Zoom recorder to automatically upload to your My Media space. Contact a member of the Learning Technologies team for an introduction to these services.  
2. Screen Capture
   Do you rely on screen capture for instruction? Set up a Zoom meeting (just don’t invite anyone). Record the meeting and select Share Screen. Proceed with the demonstration and provide voice-over. Save the recording to your My Media space and deploy into a Canvas module.
3. Video Conferencing
   Get together with your online students in real time. Connect your face-to-face class with a guest presenter or even another class in another country. Zoom is the conferencing solution that is easy to set up and use. Offering higher definition and better flexibility than Skype, Zoom allows you to communicate with up to 50 participants in one meeting.
4. Video Assignments
   Allow your students to submit Zoom videos to assignments. Music instructors can watch and evaluate an instrumental or vocal performance. Art instructors can review student video creations. Educators can review student teacher examples. The list goes on and on. It’s simple to set your assignments for video submission. The video appears in the SpeedGrader the same as a file submission. 
5.  Assignment Comments
   Want to make your assignment comments a little more personal? Use your computer, tablet, or phone to record comments to your students in the SpeedGrader. 
6.  Announcements
   Make your announcements to the class ‘in person’ if you can’t be in the classroom or if the course is online. Student survey responses consistently indicate that students feel more engaged when instructors use video as a way to communicate with the class, both as a group and personally. Zoom is only one option for video recording. 
7. Grading with Zoom
   Did you know you can use Zoom to do markups and give feedback in SpeedGrader? Students get to hear and see your markups as you critique their submissions. The engagement is almost like a face-to-face meeting. Students get to see and hear exactly what you are talking about as you grade their submissions.

Contact any member of the Learning Technologies team (Anna Catterson, Kristy Duggan, Mark Summey) for more information or a tutorial on any of these Zoom options.