Zoom provides an online space for virtual classes where all participants can be seen and heard in real time. This tool can add a social dynamic to an online course or provide a way to hold interactive lectures online in blended or traditional face-to-face classes.
This document, Concordia Educational Technology Guidelines for Faculty and Students (the “Guidelines”), provides essential guidelines from Concordia concerning the use of Zoom at the university.
Zoom is a video conferencing tool that can be used in an academic setting to facilitate online learning. Faculty members can use it to provide lectures, tutorials and office hours.
This workflow guides you through the steps for moving your live classes into an online format. Online classes will be held using the web conferencing tool Zoom, facilitated through Moodle. This workflow will guide you through the process of:
The steps created by Concordia's Access Centre for Students with Disabilities will guide you through the process for settings up and enabling closed captioning so that students have access to text-to-voice content and live transcriptions.
Zoom has a simple security feature that allows the host to suspend all participant activities during a class meeting.
Running a Zoom virtual class (meeting)
Remember Concordia will be using Zoom to host online virtual classes. You must activate your Zoom enhanced licencebefore using Zoom for the first time.
Breakout rooms allow the host to split meeting participants into separate rooms. Breakout rooms can facilitate different kinds of group work such as discussions, problem solving, brainstorming and peer teaching.
Overview - We only advise enabling Breakout rooms if you plan to use them
In addition to offering step-by-step videos on using a multitude of functionality, Zoom also offers live training webinars everyday (Mon-Fri) and recorded training sessions. Be sure to select the appropriate time zone when registering for a live session.
Once you have determined the appropriate content for your Zoom session, plan a session that takes advantage of your time with students and the interactive features of Zoom.
How and when virtual office hours are scheduled will depend on your course and the needs or your students. Generally, when holding office hours, there are two ways to proceed: You can either have hours scheduled at the same time each week or at different times during the week.