Table Of ContentZoom for Online Teaching
Learn How to Use Zoom for Video Classes, Webinars,
Meetings and Video Conferences for Distance and
Remote Teaching
Written By
Paolo Daolio
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Zoom App- At a Glance
1.1 Zoom- A Video Conferencing Tool
1.2 Setup Requirements for Zoom
1.3 How Much Zoom Costs?
1.4 Zoom Security Issues
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Zoom App and Learning about its
Features
2.1 Downloading and Installing Zoom
2.2 Starting a Meeting
2.3 Scheduling a Meeting
2.4 Joining a Meeting
2.5 Conducting Zoom Webinar
2.6 Sending Invitations to Join a Meeting or Webinar
2.7 Feature of Screen Sharing
2.8 Zoom Phone and Zoom Room
2.9 Polling Feature
2.10 Non-Verbal Feedback
2.11 Virtual Background
2.12 Whiteboard Option
2.13 Annotation
2.14 Meeting Transcription
2.15 Option of Chat
Chapter 3: Zoom as a Tool for Online Teaching
3.1 Preparing for Class
3.2 Engaging Students Using Different Features
3.3 Specific Teaching Scenario
3.4 Zoom Assignment Setup
3.5 Zoom Individual Presentation Setup
3.6 Zoom Group Presentation Setup
Chapter 4: Choosing Zoom over Other Tools
4.1 Benefits of Zoom
4.2 Zoom vs. Other Meeting Tools
4.3 Zoom vs Microsoft Teams
4.4 Zoom vs Google Hangouts
4.5 Zoom vs Skype
4.6 Pros and Cons of Zoom
Chapter 5: Tips to Use Zoom App Effectively
5.1 Pre-Set your Meeting
5.2 Send Invitation to Clients Directly in Calendar Using Zoom Link
5.3 Mute Microphone when not Speaking
5.4 Inform Participants when you Record Meeting
5.5 Ensure Meeting Settings before you Start a Meeting
5.6 Share Screen when Presenting
5.7 Create a Meeting Agenda before you Schedule a Meeting
Conclusion
Introduction
Zoom Video Communications is an independent information service located
in California. It provides video telecommunications and online messaging
services through a peer-to-peer software system based in the cloud. It is used
for video conferencing, working from home, distance learning, and social
connections. Zoom's corporate model relies on delivering a product that is
easy to use than alternatives, as well as cost advantages, which involves
reducing infrastructure-level hardware expenses and ensuring a strong degree
of workforce productivity. It supports video chatting service, which allows
unlimited access up to a hundred devices at once, with a time limit of forty
minutes for free accounts having meetings with five or more members.
Customers have the opportunity to update by subscription to one of their
plans, with the maximum allowing up to a thousand persons simultaneously,
with no time limit. With the emergence of remote working in this scenario,
Zoom’s software utilization has seen a significant global rise starting in early
2020. Its software applications have been subject to review by the public and
media concerning privacy and security issues. A portion of the Zoom
working population is based in China that has given rise to concerns about
monitoring and censorship.
Business conferencing apps such as Zoom Rooms are accessible for fifty to
one hundred dollars a month. One screen can display up to forty-nine users at
once. Zoom has several levels: Basic, Pro, Enterprise, and Business. If you
are using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, participants do not have to
download the app; they can click on the link and enter from the web page.
For Macs, Zoom is not appropriate with Safari.
Banking institutions, universities and other educational departments around
the globe use Zoom. Zoom has a record of ten million regular customers, and
the app had more than two hundred million active users in March 2020,
generating expanded difficulties for the business. The company launched
version 5.0 of Zoom in April which resolved a range of privacy and security
issues. It includes the default passwords, enhanced authentication and a
meeting place security icon.
You can work remotely and on your passion with video conferencing through
Zoom. Zoom has features that can help you to organize a meeting formally.
Zoom is the best tool for online teaching as it gives whiteboard, annotation,
screen sharing, keyboard shortcuts and much more. Scheduling, joining,
starting a conference and sending invitations to your participants for a video
conference is easy with Zoom. It has an assignment and presentations set up
as a tool for instructors to involve students in a better learning process. For
feedback, there is a polling feature to create a poll and share with your
participants. If you are looking for an application for your meetings and
video/audio conferences, try out Zoom as it will provide you with the best
features as compared to other tools, including price plans.
Chapter 1: Zoom App- At a Glance
Zoom is an online conferencing application with a central, desktop interface
and a smartphone device for users to communicate from any place, with on or
off video. Users may decide to record meetings, work on activities, and view
or edit on screens with each other, all in one easy-to-use application. Zoom
offers high -quality video, audio, and remote screen networking functionality
through Windows Phone, Mac devices, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Zoom and
H.322/SIP room networks. Zoom is typical all along and commonly used in
this scenario. The video conferencing system has been the unquestioned
pioneer in space throughout the nine years since its establishment.
Zoom is one of the top video conferencing technology systems worldwide in
2020. It helps you to communicate with fellow workers remotely when in-
person interactions are not feasible and have become immensely useful for
social activities, too. Zoom has been an essential resource for tiny, medium,
and broad teams that want to stay in contact and maintain their normal
business processes with limited interruption-as well as being a firm favorite
of users.
Yet due to the current scenario, Zoom has lately seen an increase in technical
expertise. When more and more people are being driven to work from home
and remain safe, Zoom helps them to participate in fun ways to communicate
with their peers. Zoom is useful to companies, with the best features the app
provides, three options to Zoom and much more. If you operate a remote
squad, Zoom can help you keep in contact with them that its intuitive features
of video conferencing.
There is an expense to using the updated function plans from Zoom, which
needs to be paid. When you have the money, and the reaction is yes, invest in
an updated package of Zoom. If the response is no, go back to working with
your colleagues just the way you are working in free mode.
1.1 Zoom- A Video Conferencing Tool
Zoom is a cloud-based video conference method that allows you to host one-
on-one conference calls easily or group meetings. This will enable
individuals to interact remotely from their place, and to engage in a
conference, lecture, or work session. The Zoom application is downloaded to
your device and is installed on it. It is comparable for a laptop to using
google hangouts or Face time, and it works like any other application for
phones or tablets.
You will need to validate as a Department faculty, employees or student to
enable the certificate the first time you connect to Zoom in, but the app
should recall the password for subsequent logins. According to Zoom, the
app is "the pioneer in digital video networking with a fast, secure cloud
network for video and audio chat, interaction, talk, and webinars through
smartphones, laptops, telephone lines, and room networks".
Zoom is essentially a collaboration system that allows businesses and
individuals to keep in touch with each other through the capabilities of video
conferencing. The method has numerous benefits and strengths. If you are
curious if Zoom is right for your business, continue reading this Zoom guide.
This interactive communication device links interactive team leaders to one
another with powerful audio, video, and collaboration tools. Main aspects of
Zooming include High Definition live phone talk, VoIP (Voice over
Information Protocol) video conferencing, and quick message, digital
backdrops for video calling, sharing the cameras and interactive whiteboards
and hosting webinars on Zoom.
1.2 Setup Requirements for Zoom
Typically when people speak about Zoom, you will hear the following words:
Zoom Conference and Zoom Room. A Zoom Meeting applies to “a group
that holds a video conference using Zoom”. You may enter such meetings via
a webcam or smartphone. In the meantime, a Zoom Room is “the actual
equipment configuration that enables organizations from their meeting rooms
to plan and initiate Zoom Meetings”. Internet access - wired or cellular
internet (3G or 4G) and lowest possible bandwidth is six hundred kbps, and
1.6 Mbps is advised to use when conferencing with Zoom. Utilize the speed
test to verify the Internet speed. A headset-built-in to your Bluetooth device,
USB plug-in or wired, Built-in Laptop or Computer Headset Jack and if your
laptop or mobile has headphones, you will need to put in a headphone
because the speakers' voice would not scatter throughout the Zoom
conference.
Microphone
For Zoom conferences and video calls, it is suggested to have a USB
microphone with headset and earbuds. Suggestions for better performing
USB Microphone are;
Bluetooth Headphones
Headsets of Plantronics
Webcam
A webcam-one that is installed into your device or one that attaches through
USB to your device. If you want to use a better quality USB camera, Zoom
recommends these;
Logitech High Definition Webcams
High Definition Webcams via Microsoft
Supported Devices
Zoom is supported by these devices;
Android and iOS applications
Microsoft Surface PRO 2 to Windows 8.1
Xbox Windows PRO 3 operating Windows 10
Blackberry
Supported Web Browsers
These web browsers can support Zoom;
Windows: IE,7 +, Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome
Mac: Mozilla Firefox, Safari +, Google Chrome
Linux: Firefox, Google Chrome
1.3 How Much Zoom Costs?
When breaking down the pricing structure in Zoom, The video conference
