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When students click on the link the course menu, they will see all of the scheduled meetings set up for this course.
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Create a Narrated PowerPoint Using Zoom
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Securing Your Virtual Classroom
As Fairfield University and other colleges have moved to remote teaching this spring, some instructors have had the experience of non-students managing to intrude on live Zoom meetings. These disruptive incidents, which often include injecting offensive material into the session, can quickly derail a class and undermine the teaching and learning that is taking place. To help prevent such intrusions in your classes, here are some steps you can take to effectively secure your Zoom sessions.
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Lock your virtual classroomDid you know you can lock a Zoom session that’s already started, so that no one else can join? It’s kind of like closing the classroom door after the bell. Give students a few minutes to file in and then click Participants at the bottom of your Zoom window. In the Participants pop-up, click the button that says Lock Meeting. Control screen sharingTo give instructors more control over what students are seeing and to prevent them from sharing random content, Zoomrecently updated the default screen-sharing settings for their education users. Sharing privileges are now set to “Host Only,” so instructors by default are the only ones who can share content in class. If students need to share their work with the group, however, you can allow screen sharing in the host controls. Click the arrow next to Share Screen and then Advanced Sharing Options. Under “Who can share?” choose “Only Host” and close the window. You can also change the default sharing option to All Participants in your Zoom settings. Enable the Waiting RoomThe Waiting Room feature is one of the best ways to protect your Zoom virtual classroom and keep out those who aren’t supposed to be there.
The virtual Waiting Room can be enabled for every class (in your settings) or for individual classes at the scheduling level. Lock down the chatInstructors can restrict the in-class chat so students cannot privately message other students. We’d recommend controlling chat access in your in-meeting toolbar controls (rather than disabling it altogether) so students can still interact with the instructor as needed. Remove a participantIf someone who’s not meant to be there somehow manages to join your virtual classroom, you can easily remove them from the Participants menu. Hover over their name, and the Remove option (among other options) will appear. Click to remove them from your virtual classroom, and they won’t be allowed back in. Security options when scheduling a classThe great thing about Zoom is that you have these and other protection options at your fingertips when scheduling a class and before you ever have to change anything in front of your students. Here are a few of the most applicable:
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