Training
The Online Consortium of Oklahoma has an on-demand course, Zoom Towards Engagement, which targets best practices when teaching online via Zoom. Participants who successfully complete this will earn a badge.
Adding a Link to Your Zoom Meetings
Online Learning and I.T. have installed a tool that allows you to make a connection from your course menu in Blackboard to your Zoom account:
Making A Direct Connection to a Zoom Room from Blackboard
Your Zoom Recordings
The College has limited storage space in Zoom, therefore, to make sure you don't lose your recordings there is a connection that downloads a copy of your cloud recording from College Zoom account into a folder in Panopto:
Establishing a Panopto connection and managing your recordings
Using a Green Screen
Using a green screen is beneficial in more ways than one. Beyond simply adding a custom background of your choice, it can be used to cast presentations with you presented in the foreground. You might think of this as a virtual representation of a real in-class presentation typically shown by a projector in a classroom. The following video walks through the process of implementing downloads into zoom to use presentations in your background:
How to turn your virtual background into a PowerPoint presentation on Zoom
Information provided by the Lead Interpreter from the TCC Resource Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The technique could help all users.
Other Advanced Features
Beyond the "Powerpoint as Virtual Background" option, there are additional advanced features. You may
- Allow a user to share a portion of the screen
- Capture and stream computer audio
- Present a video from a downloaded file, or
- Share content from a 2nd camera.
Sharing a portion of the screen will allow the host to give the participants more focus on specific details presented on the screen when necessary. It might also be used in a teaching scenario where certain elements are temporarily hidden, or simply used to omit other sensitive data on the screen.
Computer audio can be used where the host wants to share only audio from their computer and not the screen. As before, this can be done for the sake of focus, for convenience or to help remove visual distractions.
Alternatively, video files can be streamed by the host to others in the zoom meeting by selecting the "Video" option. This selection will prompt the host to select a locally downloaded file that will appear for the participants in the meeting.
Selecting "Content from 2nd Camera" will allow an additionally connected webcam or auxiliary camera to be captured and streamed within another window, also known as picture-in-picture, or PiP.