If you’re accustomed to teaching in-person, I’m sure hybrid or online teaching has required some changes to your lessons. At first glance, the modalities of synchronous online classrooms and in-person classrooms may seem at odds. However, many types of assessments (e.g., exams, essays, quizzes, discussions) can be used for both synchronous online and face-to-face (f2f)… Read more »
Tag: zoom
Quick Tip of the Week: Allow Students to Choose which Zoom Breakout Room to Join
With a recent Zoom update, we can allow students to choose which breakout room they want to join. Instructors could specify topics of discussion for breakout rooms and let students join those based on their interests. Similarly, students could join breakout rooms based on their role in a group project, the type of question they… Read more »
What To Do If You’re Zoombombed
You’ve probably heard of “zoombombing,” a kind of cyberattack in which unwanted guest(s) disrupt Zoom meetings. Oftentimes, zoombombers are interested in cheap pranks or distracting meeting hosts and participants. But on rare occasions, their distractions are more malicious: offensive images, hate speech, or pornographic material. Whether unamusing pranks or malicious trolling, zoombombing is an unwanted… Read more »
Engaging Students Online with Zoom Video Conferencing
In this post we look at video conferencing, focusing on Zoom, IU’s web conferencing and collaboration tool. Some reasons to use video conferencing in your class include: Participate in a class while you are out of town Hold office hours online Set up peer tutoring sessions so that students can help one another Hold online review sessions…. Read more »
Summer of Learning with CITL | Part I
As the semester comes to a close, we all set our eyes on the summer. Some of you may be teaching a course this summer, some may have research trips planned, while others may be taking the summer to enjoy Bloomington. At the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, we will be doing a little… Read more »
A Tale of Two Tools: Creating Instructional Videos Just Got Easy
IU offers you quite a few options for creating various types of instructional media, but which ones are the simplest to use? Setting up each piece of software, testing what it can do for you, trying to get over that learning curve, and uploading it to an accessible location on the “interwebs” can take precious time… Read more »