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How to Create Your Online Learning Space/Classroom Management

I'm gonna start with the top 10 tools you might want to consider using as a teacher. The first one is follow host order when you're dealing with an online class or a remote class or mixed, you never know if the same order appears on each screen. So what you have to do is two things. It's very easy. First is when you're in gallery mode, you're gonna take one square, you're gonna click on it and drag it to an order that you want. So I place it there once I do that in my view menu in the top right here, I now see follow host order. This is a lifesaver for teachers. It's hard enough to look at one spot when you're looking at two spots for where students are at least, you know, they're in the same order which allows you to do things like call on students and say from left to right and you know, everybody's in the same order. That's your first tip is follow host order. Now, when I click this, it is set for the duration of your class until you release it or until you end the class. So if I go...

back up the view, you'll see a new one called released video order when I release it, it goes back to the way it was. Now let's stay there for a second as an educator. We all like when students raise their hand, right, well here it is and zoom, we're gonna do the same thing. So as you condition your students to this online world and really get them to understand what your class looks like in that world right down below on the toolbar here. If you follow my mouse, you'll see reactions. Well the big reaction on the bottom is raised hand tool. I would highly urge you to have them use the raised hand tool because we built a little ai into it to be smart. A lot of times when you're teaching in a hybrid world or a full remote world, it's hard to see who has been raising their hand the longest, who's been waiting patiently. And when I do this, as soon as I raise my hand, I'm going to go to the top left of the screen. Therefore as a teacher, I know the person in the top left has been waiting the longest and then all the way down from there. And the cool thing is if you have your order locked, once I answer the question and I lower the hand, I'll report back to the spot you put me in before. So it's just a handy tip as a teacher as you're managing all the things to do now that you have your gallery set the way you want to. We're gonna talk about another setting here called live transcription. Sometimes it's hard to see on the screen who's talking when you have 49 students on the screen. So live transcriptions built in the zoom and there's two things to consider here. Number one, I can assign someone to type, but that's only gonna be as fast as they can type. I can copy a token from an outside agencies. A lot of schools that teach students who are deaf and blind have agencies that will do the transcription for them. Or lastly I can enable live transcription. This is probably the best bet you'll get a notification that has been enabled and you can see at the bottom now as I talk the transcriptions coming up automatically, I would have this on the whole time because it's another way another vehicle to reach a learning style that maybe won't be reached by just speaking on video. So I'm gonna disable it for the purposes of our our chat. Now let's talk about something called breakout rooms. Breakout rooms is a great tool to consider when you're talking about group work in collaboration. So if there are 20 students in this class, I can go to breakout rooms and I can assign them individually auto, assign them or let them pick their own spot and send groups into sub meetings where I as the teacher can look into and talk into to foster collaboration and teamwork as they discuss their items that report back to the main meeting. So if I log him in manually you'll see when I click this, I'll create a screen and I'll have one room because only two of me in here. But as you get more and more students you can just drag them into the room that you want very easy once you hit go, I always make it fun and countdown because in 321, they disappear out of your room and go into their own meetings from there. You can kind of see who's in each room, You can talk into the rooms, you can actually join the room and come back out and then when you're done, you can have auto closed or close them on your own again, they get a countdown and they join you back in the space. So another way to mix up your lesson and to keep intention and engagement going at the same time. So play with breakout rooms. If you want to learn more about them, you can always visit our zoom learning center where they have an entire course just on using breakout rooms. Earlier in this lesson, we talked about the power of the hand raised tool. Well, there's another powerful tool within that same set called non verbal reactions. I love these. At the beginning of the class, I set the pace. I say, listen, we're gonna go on from here and talk if you need to get my intention or have a question or I'm going too fast. Use your nonverbal cues. What I do is I open up my participants panel here and you see there's several folks here in the room and down here under reactions. These are nonverbal cues, I can say, yep, I got it, no, I don't have it go slower, go faster and also I'm away, I don't really point that one of the students, but it's there if you need to, but if I can say in the middle of a lesson, okay, before I move forward, is everybody good? Yes or no? Use your cues? They all click yes, I'm good. And you'll see here that it comes up in the corner of my screen as well as in the participant panel next to my name. What I love using this for two is quick pulse formative assessments. Okay, quick quiz, yes or no, boom, they all answer, I can see quickly that there's seven yeses for knows just keeps the engagement going, keeps the student's attention span because they're not in front of you there at home. So nonverbal cues are a powerful way to kind of liven up the classroom and keep engagement at a high level, finishing up the top 10 tools, let's focus our attention for a few moments on the security shield, as I mentioned earlier, this is the hub of all things classroom management, I do have to say as a prior educator, administrator classroom management is still classroom management, even if it's virtual, so it's a matter of the expectation that you set ahead of time and that you train your students to respond to during class, we're gonna make it a little easier for you, so back down here, at the security shield, You'll notice two major sections. Let's start at the top the top session is controlling who enters and leaves your meeting. If I start with the top one lock meeting, that is finite, no one is getting into your meeting, not even administrator, no one gets in. Why I don't particularly care for this in a classroom environment is if students at home don't have stable internet or wifi connection and they drop out of the meeting, they can't get back in. So as an alternative, I love to recommend that we use enable waiting room because again it provides that barrier. The door is still closed but you can open it and let them in so the same level of safety and security but not as finite as lock meeting. Also you can hide profile pictures. You see a picture you don't like to see or if students are not on camera. Perhaps it's a college class and you don't want to just see a bunch of squares that say their initials. You can hide that to clean up the view So easy three checkpoints here. I can disable or enable by click simply clicking next to what I want the next one. I love the word, allow see the word allow here with me allow participants to do the following which means if I uncheck it, they can't do it. So this is genius. Pay attention here. If I uncheck all of these all the students can do our watch and listen, that's it. They can't draw, they can't annotate, they can't change their names, they can't chat, they can't screen share until you want them to. This is important. It's an easy way to manage the class when the environment isn't as easy because they're not right in front of you, you can't literally stand up and talk to them, You're doing it over zoom. So look with me here, I have the ability to turn these honor off one at a time to my liking. Maybe I'll keep chat on to keep a back channel or discard going, but I'm gonna take off screen share until I want them to share this way. They're not trying to interrupt my flow, my rhythm of teaching by popping images on the screen that maybe I don't want to see. And then lastly unmute themselves as a game changer because on mute themselves to answer questions that will just interrupt you in your flow. So what I would do is take this tactic and say, I disabled your ability to amuse yourself. If you have a question, put it in the chat and when the appropriate time comes to stop, I'll answer your question, address it accordingly. Set that from the beginning. It's an easy way to control your classroom. And lastly you can move a participant from the class. If they're misbehaving the first time you do this, it sends them to the waiting room where you can then chat into the waiting room and maybe give them a warning and if you do it again and you put them into the removed participant area, you now have an option of removing them from class that might seem passive. But what it will do is it will not allow that user to join that meeting again until the meeting has been ended and restarted. So now you would remove them from class and follow normal school protocols on behavior. Again, it's still classroom management and the last one I want to cover is kind of like a biggie, it's kind of like a silent giant in your corner. You know, you never want to use it, but it's there for you if you need to that is suspend participant activities. So if you're not certain there's 40, 50, 60 students on your call and you think you saw something or you think someone may have come in without being wanted in there and you can't find them, you're getting flustered, you hit this button and everything stops your video feeds, your audio feeds, your screen share and it kind of freezes it all in time. So you can concentrate and figure out what it is. If it's passive or just silly, you can remove it and move on to class. If it's something more serious then you can hit another button in that panel that says contact zoom security and zoom security will then respond and take care of the situation with you and your admin owner of the account. So again, that safety button, it's there for you. We never want you to use it, but it is there and it works great.