Technology tools

Zoom has a great solution - allowing participants to choose their own rooms - that is made even more useful when you rename the rooms to match the topic or room expectations.

Introducing the all new Zoom Whiteboard, which enables brainstorming and collaboration on a persistent, expandable, digital canvas.

Explore the new features helping enhance collaboration, including Automatic Gestures, Zoom IQ for Sales, Zoom Whiteboard, Backstage for Zoom Events, and more.

How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary Have you ever wanted to create a useful chat summary from a virtual class meeting, presentation or panel discussion on Zoom (or some other videoconference tool)? For over 10 years now, I’ve been using a strategy I call the “hashtag chat summary” to ...

Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

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Whether you love it or hate it, or alternate between the two, teaching synchronously on Zoom might not be going away any time soon. Trust me, I know the struggle. […]

Creating video content for our courses can be done with sustainability in mind.

The Zoom chat is a tremendous teaching tool. So why aren’t more educators and facilitators using it?

Kids can now personalize their distance learning virtual backgrounds with these family-friendly, zoom backgrounds kids will want to use.  With students and teachers participating in more zoom meetings and engaging in distance learning, there are a lot of video conferences happening.

Zoom Focus mode is a new feature for Zoom meetings designed with digital learning environment in mind.

Instructors who teach live online classes should thoughtfully consider whether to require students to use their webcams during class.

Download any of these holiday backgrounds for free!

Zoom, an online video conferencing system, is now available to the UMN community!  Compare Zoom to Google Hangouts

Overview Teaching Effectively With Zoom - Checklists for download By Dan Levy On this website you can find the sample checklists of the concrete steps you need to take in order to implement the ideas provided in the book Teaching Effectively with Zoom. For more information, please refer to the ...

The mode keeps participants’ eyes on the host

We've got a step-by-step guide on how to change your Zoom name, profile picture and background, make a breakout room, add your pronouns and more.

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and ...

Remote teaching has revealed the importance for students of learning new skills and taking creative risks without being watched, argues Maggie Melo.

A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make Zoom breakout groups less boring?

Last summer, many instructors were scrambling to adjust to teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. For many teachers that meant developing videos for students to watch. We’ve discussed some of the research on how students learn from videos , and this week I want to take a look at how best to create