Virtual Learning Tech Tips

Teachers: Top Features for Securing Your Virtual Classrooms & Enhancing Students’ Learning Experiences

August 20, 2020 Article (6 minute read)

https://blog.zoom.us/teachers-top-features-for-securing-virtual-classrooms-enhancing-student-learning-experiences/

How to Sanitize Your EdTech Equipment

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Sanitizing Your EdTech Equipment

Zoom Tips

• By default, your waiting room is enabled.
• Monitor your waiting room carefully before admitting participants.
• Consider assigning a trustworthy co-host who can assist you in monitoring your waiting room.
• Disable the screenshare feature for participants.

Google Classroom Tips

• Customize notifications in Settings.
• Communicate with individual students or an entire class on the Stream.
• Turn off assignments from posting to the Stream, making it for announcements only.
• Connect parents to Google Classroom with Guardian Summaries.
• Use weekly topics to organize your assignments.
• Schedule assignment posts in advance. 
• Create quiz assignments using Google Forms.
• Check how your assignments look from the students' point-of-view.
• Use the Google Classroom folder in the Google Drive to quickly review and grade assignments.
• Use the comment bank to speed up feedback.