Set up your Zoom meeting link and distribute it to your students. If you plan to hold class (or office hours, or some other recurring meeting time) over Zoom, schedule your meeting as a recurring ...
It may not seem too surprising that one of the best-funded edtech startups in the past year of pandemic has been a company that piggybacks on the success of Zoom to add tools for running online ...
Before Covid-19, when I taught in person, I always asked my students to post weekly essays on a discussion board I call the “sandbox.” During the pandemic, the sandbox has proved an effective way to ...
Welcome to the new era of classes: open your laptop, plug in your headphones and hope the Wi-Fi in your apartment building is strong enough to support the hundreds of classes happening all at once.
Early this year, after the pandemic had moved my classroom online, a student asked if we could try “silent meetings” in a course I was teaching. At first I assumed that, like many of us, he was just ...
It’s hard for instructors not to see the chat function of Zoom as a distraction from the main event: their lecture. While many instructors have posted their thoughts about the chat on their blogs, ...
Remember the mad scramble to lock down all the Zoom videoconferences and remote classes with passwords to keep random miscreants from popping in uninvited? Well, Zoom reached an agreement in a ...
Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month-old startup has now raised ...
FILE PHOTO: Small toy figures seen in front of Zoom logo in this illustration picture taken March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo The company behind Zoom agreed this weekend to ...