 Hey, everybody, Frank O'Neill here. I'm going to walk you through how to use Zoom to teach your classes if you've never used it before. So this is assuming you already have downloaded Zoom, so you'll see I have the little Zoom icon here at the bottom, and that you have your own account, which will give you your personal ID, which you can see here, this is mine. So the first thing you want to do is you're going to click Copy Invitation, and then I open the Word document and paste it in. You don't need to share all this, or maybe you'll want to, but generally speaking, what I do is just share the Zoom meeting room. So this is the link that you'll share with your students, put into your courses when students click this link, they will be sent to your meeting room. So just so you know. So let's get this out of the way, and let's go ahead and pop in. So I'm going to click Start. This is going to start a Zoom session. Normally my face will pop up in here, but because I'm doing a screen capture, I'm already using the camera, so we won't allow that to happen. Just so you know, let's go ahead and minimize that, and I'm also going to mute it because I'm getting audio from my screen capture recording anyhow. But you are going to see here that on the left-hand side, and students are going to be able to use most of this stuff here, this is where you would unmute yourself. You're going to ask your students to be muted when they're not speaking, when they're not asking a question. So there's not a bunch of feedback. You're also going to want to have your students wearing headphones or ear buds that would be preferred to minimize feedback. If not, they'll have to turn their volume way down. So that's going to be how you can control the audio. When I click over here, it can change the microphone that I'm using, and you can test your speaker and microphone setup as well. Video, you can start the video or not, and you'll see it'll allow me to choose my camera. You'll notice I certainly don't look great, but you do want to make sure you have some light in front of you. So I actually have two lights shining on me. You don't want lights behind you that makes you look kind of like a dark ghoulish creature. You also don't want too much light blasting you out. So a couple of cheap lights aimed near yourself is usually a good idea. And then also audio or video, I do recommend using a different webcam, not the fisheye lens that's built into your computer. If I were to switch that, I'd look worse than I do. So that's just a couple of general tips there. And you have the invitation area here, but you shouldn't be inviting anyone, your student should have a link that they should be coming into this room already. When I click on manage participants, you'll see I'm the only one in here and I'm the host. Now, you can make other people the host, if somebody else were to get here before you, you can claim the host for yourself. But you will see that I'm able to mute and unmute people and turn people's cameras off at least. I've never actually forced a student to turn their camera on, but I'm assuming that's possible. So if you had 24 students in here, their names would all be right here. At the bottom, I can mute everyone, unmute everyone. And then you can see that I can mute them on entry. That way you don't get a bunch of feedback when people are first coming in. You can also play a chime for entering or exiting. I generally don't because if students are popping in late, it's causing some issues. And you can lock it if you want anyone else to come in, but I think we'll probably have some stragglers. So that's gonna be the manage participants pane there. I did jump over polls, so I actually set up a poll. So just so you know, I think you should, you should definitely find ways to interact and engage with your students. It's not gonna be as easy as it is in the classroom. So I think polls are a phenomenal way to do that. I would say in a typical 50 minute session, if you've got one or two poll questions, you're asking probing questions that students are gonna be answering probably in the chat. And maybe you break up into one group session. That's a very active, engaging session, maybe even more engaging than your face-to-face environment sometimes. So I did, if you've never built a poll question, it'll take you to the web browser and ask you to do them. I just built a test one with some options. I can click launch polling here, and then this would poll everyone that's in this class, and they could give their answers right there. And when we're done, you can click end polling. So it's a fun way to make sure that students are paying attention, and then you can share your results, but I don't have any. So I strongly recommend you build one or two poll questions for every class session. They'll be saved in there, and then you can choose them, and share them, and you're off and running. So that's gonna be the poll feature. I'll skip the share feature for now. The chat feature, you'll see when I click on the chat button, it opened the chat right below the management participants pane. So here, this will be where you would do a chat. So I always get things started myself when I come in with something small like that. I'll also type in a message that if there's any technical problems to let me know in the chat, cuz if they can't hear me, they don't know what I'm saying, so I would type it in the chat there as well. I do ask students to respond in the chat. I usually get a good amount of response. The best advice I could tell you there is, wait. Ask a question, you're gonna have to wait. It's gonna take longer than the classroom, so you're gonna have to be comfortable with that silence and wait for someone to engage. And that usually does get the ball rolling, especially with certain classes. Sometimes they're constantly chatting and it's awesome. What I will do is kind of teach a certain topic and then every few minutes, take a break to come and check the chat. Don't let the chat be bothering you every time somebody comes in. Don't let it ruin your train of thought. But let's say every four, five, six minutes is probably a good time. Two, I'm gonna check the chat and then answer all the questions and deal with everything there. All right, so that's gonna be the chat feature. The record feature is only gonna be if you have a Zoom Pro account. So we have unlimited access to regular Zoom accounts where you can have up to 100 participants. They can be up to 40 minutes long, but you cannot record them. So if you have a Zoom Pro account, you can go longer and you can record. But if you have a Zoom Pro account, when you click record, you're gonna see your two options. Record on this computer or record to the cloud. Strongly recommend recording to the cloud. In a couple of hours, Zoom will send you an email with a link and that link will you share with your students. I upload it right into my Canvas course shell and embed it and they can click on the lecture and I give it today's date. Recording to the computer, you'll have to wait for it to render and then it's gonna take a lot of space. So unless you're going to edit your recording, I don't recommend recording on the computer, just so you know. All right, so that's gonna be the recording feature. Close caption if you click it, it's only gonna say assign someone that's in here to try to caption as we go or to copy to use a third party service that makes you pay by the minute. So that's gonna be something that we, just to keep in mind, but we probably won't be using it. And then we have breakout rooms here. So if you set up a breakout room, let's say you have 12 students and you wanna break them up into three groups of four, you can tell it to put four participants in a room and then it can sort them automatically or else you can manually do it. Now, once you've created the rooms, you'll see that I created four breakout rooms, I can assign people to those rooms, I can rename them, but you'll see that I can also, there's nothing to join. So you can add more rooms, but you should be able to jump in and join, pop in and out of every room, but I can't do it because I don't have participants. So you can set up four breakout sessions, groups of three or four, whatever you're doing, and then you can be popping into them and you can call them all back at the end. So that breakout room is another great idea. If you're worried about teaching online or teaching with Zoom, I strongly recommend a poll question or two, asking probing questions in the chat and waiting for answers, and then using a breakout room per session. Those are great ways to engage your students, so don't be scared of this. I've been teaching online a long time and I've actually found it more engaging in the face-to-face environment. I'm being completely honest there because I hear from everyone on a very regular basis. So that's your breakout rooms. You click on more, it would just allow you to share this live on other platforms. So nothing to worry about there. All right, so sharing, sharing is gonna be a huge part of this. You'll see that since I have that Word document open, everything that's open on my computer I can share. So I could just click to share right on this Word document if I want. You can just keep sharing your screen, that's fine. If you had a second web browser open with a video ready to play, you could go ahead and do that. You could share what's coming in from your iPhone. When I click on Advanced here, you'll see that I can share from a second camera. If you happen to have one, you can share sound or you can share parts of the screen. So these are all good things to know. I am gonna show how to share the whiteboard. Now, whatever you're clicking on, if I wanna share my screen, whiteboard, whatever, this come down here. You can optimize for full screen if you're gonna play a video. You can share computer sound, but I'm gonna click on the whiteboard and click share. Now, as far as sharing video, if you have to share it during your limited time together, it's fine. But there's a lot of technical things that can happen with videos. I usually share them in advance. Have the students watch them prior to the session and then we talk about them. So here I have a whiteboard. I was thinking about this, like if you're a math teacher working on problems, or if you like drawing on the board, this would be the equivalent. Now, I'm kind of lucky because I do have a touch screen, which makes it easy, but I have terrible handwriting. So if you have a stylus or any way that you can write or if you're good with writing with your mouse, go ahead and give that a try. So that'd be how you use the whiteboard. When you click stop share, that will stop what you've been sharing and bring us back to our full screen here. Okay, those are all the things that I use in a typical Zoom session. I teach Zoom hybrid classes with up to 55, 56 students where everyone's zooming in from home. And this is how we make it run and it works very, very well. That's the low level stuff, the low hanging fruit. If you want to get more advanced as you go, then reach out and we can chat about that. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day.