This is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com I've got a
video on YouTube about zoom that I think has been played more than three hundred thousand times and
I've got a couple of other ones that have been played something like two hundred thousand times
so I get all those and loads of questions from teachers asking me questions about zoom and I'm
gonna go through today the most common problem and I probably get an email about this literally every
single day so I'm really hoping to show you the problem B to give you at least three solution so
I think for a lot of teachers this videos gonna be really useful hope you like the video and if
you do please like please like it please share it with other teachers please comment on it if
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to click on the bell to get the updates let's get started so everybody asked me the question rustle
can I share something with my students when they're in breakout rooms and the answer is
no you can't they are actually in separate rooms completely different breakout rooms to you so you
can't share anything in your breakout room because you're still in your main classroom and they've
now gone into breakout rooms which are different classrooms that they are in so we have to think of
solutions to the problem and there are various solutions and what I'm gonna try and do is go
through the key things like sharing a PowerPoint playing a video using the interactive whiteboard
setting up discussion questions and show you how you can deal with this problem as a problem and if
we're going to talk about interactive whiteboards and I'm just gonna quickly demonstrate this and
then show you an answer so let me show you this I'm in a breakout room at the moment okay and I'm
going to just open do a screen share and I'm going to open an interactive whiteboard and I'm gonna
just write on the screen really quickly so I'm just gonna click here and right and like that okay
so I've written on the screen now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to the main room and
open that interactive whiteboard but let's imagine I'm a student I've come back to the main room I
want to show my teacher what we've been working on on the interactive whiteboard I click on the
interactive whiteboard ah it's not there that is because I'm not in the same breakout room am I I'm
back in the main room with my teacher again now so it's a different interactive whiteboard just like
you've got a different interactive whiteboard in every classroom of your class or if you are
whiteboard in every classroom of your school so we have to save the work that we do so let
me show you now how to solve this problem so I'm in the breakout room gonna go to an interactive
whiteboard I'm going to a different breakout room this time so it's there's nothing now can I just
do a load of work all I need to do is click on here and just that's all I need to do actually
I don't even need to click on anything now I'm going to leave the breakout room and come back
to the main room in the main room the teacher says me right what did your group do I click
on screen share I click on interactive whiteboard I open it I'm a bit surprised there's nothing now
but I come up to save I click on showing folder and then I'm relieved to see that it is saved I
double click on it and then obviously I can start talking about it and of course everyone in the
group can see what I've saved on my interactive whiteboard just a little tip that is an image
so the best thing to do is once the students finished is simply for them to click on close
the image down and then obviously they can stop sharing and an another teacher or the teacher
can carry on with the lesson but that would be the easiest way okay just one final thing about
that you might be asking well where is that saved just point that out to you to your documents on
a PC I wouldn't be sure on a Mac and it's always gonna be at the bottom isn't it because it's got
the name zoom or one it's certainly one of your last files just click on it and it's done by day
and of course I can see here that I've been saving today's folders and that's at the same place where
you save your videos etc etc so it automatically creates a folder with all the content in it when
you save your interactive whiteboard so you save your chat or even if you save the recordings of
your sessions that you want the students to work in groups and to share a video well what you have
to do is you need to go to the video that you want to share click on it copy the link come back in to
you zoom session and then open up your chat window and then share the link and you need to do that
before the students come or before the students go into breakout rooms so that they have got a copy
and what I actually do is I tell them to click on it so that they've actually got it ready all
right they can always come back to the zoom room by just going down to here but actually make sure
that in the background they've got a copy of the video and that means that when they move into
their breakout rooms and someone wants to share the video they click on screen share and because
they've already opened it it will be available to them on the screen don't forget to click on
share computer sound otherwise the students won't be out of here the student who plays the video so
that makes sure that the sound also plays along with the video and then click on share so you've
got to share the video with the students before they move into breakout rooms and the easiest way
to do that is to put them or to share the link to the video before they move into breakout rooms in
the chat window and you want to share a document with your students because you want the students
to work on that document when they're in groups what you need to do is share the document in
the chat window before you get them to move into breakout rooms and tell them to open the document
so that when they move into breakout rooms one of the group I mean only needs one of course can
share this screen open the document and then the whole group can see it so the easiest thing to
do then again is to open up the chat window on the right-hand side and remember you can click here on
file and come down to your computer now you might share a document from various places but if you
want to grab it from your computer just simply grab a document you want to open and then that
then is being shared by your group now you can't see this because I'm logged in to another computer
here but I can see that that document is now open on my screen in my other computer and on my other
computer because I'm logged in as Tom it says download okay so you can't download it because
you're the one that shared the actual link but the student or shared the document but the students
will be able to do it so they can download the document or downloads the PowerPoint presentation
or download the PDF file or whatever you want them to share before they go into breakout rooms and
that's how you make sure that they can then all work on the same document hope you find that video
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