Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teacher training videos.com I've had loads of people asking me
about zoom and loads of people asking me Russell and having problems with this I'm having problems
with that so I've created a introduction to zoom but where I try to show you the typical things
that go wrong now I've been watching some of the videos on YouTube channels and some of them are
X and they really do a good job of explaining zoom but they don't tell you some of the obvious
things that you won't realize and this someone explains it to you for example when you open
up the chat window and begin to chat that doesn't mean to say that the chat window is opened on the
student screen they would have to click on chat as well to open up their chat to chat with you
now other systems don't work like that in other words if you change something the students also
see it but not zoom so that is a problem sometimes however there are other things about zoom that are
really good the screenshare functioning zoom is excellent so what I'm gonna do in these videos is
take you through the basics get you started up share your link get the students logged in get
you to understand the basic layout and then I'm gonna go into detail on some of the important
things that is screen sharing that is video sharing that is the way that the layout and
the chat works etc how you can control the audio there's a couple of really important things and
to do this I'm actually going to do a few of the parts with someone else as well on the screen so
we can actually kind of see a double interaction this videos take me ages I really hope it's gonna
help you if it does please like it please share it with other teachers I'm sorry that it's a
bit long please any questions leave them in the comment section and if you really like it then
come and join me on my youtube channel let's get started now you will need to create an account
in zoom your students don't need an account you will simply send them a link and they will be
able to join your webinar one thing is I'm just gonna if you click over and have a quick look at
the pricing just to make it clear from what I understand and it does seem that occasionally
they change these things but currently if you're working in a one-to-one situation then you are not
limited you can actually just practice for as long as you like and I've been practicing with this for
hours and hours in the free version - to really understand how it works if you're working with
bigger groups of between three and eight students you are limited to only 45 minutes but the free
plan can be a good way to start because you can at least practice and make sure that you know how to
work with zoom so that so I've got an account so I'm just going to jump over to my account so we
can actually start now to create straightaway our first actual zoom and to do that all I need to do
when you click on my account is click on schedule a meeting that's the easiest way to do it schedule
a meeting and we're going to create a meeting and get someone in the class quickly so I'm just gonna
write in a quick meeting with Keith okay so as I said I'm gonna meet up with a friend of mine in
a minute and go through a lesson with him so that we've got both the teacher view and the
student view I don't need to put anything else the only thing I need to do is choose the date
choose the time which you can do that from here decide how long it's going to be so for example
whether you're going to do it for one or two hours make sure that you've got the right time zone for
you and a couple of little tips now to really help you with this if you come down here my tip
to you is set it so host that's the person that's actually setting up the zoom is on video but that
the participants aren't if you've got ten fifteen to twenty students in the class and they've all
got their webcams on this is really gonna slow down the quality of the zoom so my tip to you
is not to do that you can turn on they're all the aren't there videos at a later stage anyway so I
always start with the videos off here you want both I very much doubt if any of your students
are gonna telephone in but that would mean that actually they can use both telephone and computer
for the audio come down to the bottom here a couple of other things to keep in mind this can be
useful as well mute participants on entry why well because if you've got twenty students all coming
in and they are all chatting then that's gonna create a lot of noise you really can only have
one person talking at a time when you're working with a kind of webinar online classroom so my tip
for you would be to choose that and then to click on save now once you've clicked on save there's a
couple of really useful things first of all here is the link to the actual webinar and you just
simply send that to your students but one thing that zoomed us is really helpful is they create
this really simple invitation and I can literally copy the top part of that invitation because I
know that my friend is going to connect on the link and just copy that and email it or paste it
into a website or wherever you want people know that they click on that button and they can join
your webinar so I've just sent an invitation to my friend I've just emailed him that invitation
so I know that any minute now he's gonna click and join so let's start the meeting and to start the
meeting we click here just click on start meeting now zoom does require a little plugin and so you
do need to download the plugin onto your computer once you've got it you should see this button here
which is going to open up zoom if you haven't got the plugin you will need to download it for the
first time download and run the plugin once you've got a new computer you've got it but forever
hopefully and therefore you'll just simply be able to start your zooms by clicking here so I'm going
to do that and it's gonna bring me into a little window where it's going to ask me first of all to
check my sound first of all click on this button and test that your sound is working so you can do
this by just do you hear a ringtone okay and the second one you can say yes and then the second one
if I'm going to change that and use this one here so that's yeah that's okay and then I'm going to
say beside hello hello hello hello hello hello and yes it's working so I'm going to click on yes so
now I'm ready now okay and this is the important thing once you've said yes to those you then need
to click on this button join with computer audio this will come up on the screen join make sure
you click on that because it's that that actually activates both your audio for hearing and for the
speaking so click on that button and you should be started okay and hopefully come into the room okay
we're on zoom now and I'm sorry that if you've got a ginormous face of me presenting to you
and if I can turn that after what you can see and the important thing is when you roll your cursor
over you'll see that the controls the most of the controls are at the bottom and I'm going to point
out a couple of really important things first of all you can want to open up the chat window
click on this button and that's going to open up the chat to the right hand side obviously that's
going to be one of the quick ways that you can communicate with your students so I'm just going
to click on that button now and you can see now it's opened up the chat window here on the right
hand side so you can close that if you click on it again it's going to close but open it up and
you can say hello and anyone that's joining your room will be able to see that so that's the first
thing now the second thing is you have actually got control of your video just for a minute I'm
gonna turn the video off if I come over here to the right hand side then if I click here you'll
notice that I can click on stop video but I can also restart the video at any time okay
by clicking here now let's go through some of the most important settings now another button
that people get confused about is this button here again rolling down make sure that you click here
because it's going to show you when participants join the room at the moment it's just me in the
room and we'll be talking about that in a minute but in a minute you'll see that other people can
join the room and that's where I'll see that they join remember you've sent an invitation out and
all your student should be able to join the room and as long as you've got that button turned on
you will see all of the people as they join and here is where your chat will be okay let's say
that you've sent out your invitations but you've forgot to sent an invitation to someone and you've
already got your room open is there any way you can quickly get the link to them well actually yes
if you come up to the here on the left and click here you can actually see the invitation URL and
you can even copy that so you can be in the middle of a presentation and quickly jump out open up
your email and send the invitation to someone if you need to now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna log
in on another account in another browser I'm gonna log in to my own zoom so I'm gonna open up another
browser and log in using that link so that then we can start to see what the students see okay so
I'm now logged in as a student and I want to see you to realize something if you look here first of
all obviously the teacher hasn't turned on the video so we can't see the teacher but also the
chatroom is not available and this is one of the mistakes that a lot of teachers make and it is one
of the problems with zoom in other words if you as a teacher open your chat window that does not mean
that the chat window is open to the students the students would still need to click here to open
up the chat window to sue to make sure that the chat window is available to them so they need to
do that and the same with the participants window okay so now they can see themselves and they can
see their teacher this is a problem with zoom as I said it's not necessarily my tool of choice
because there are certain things about it that I don't like one of them is that that you haven't
got enough control over certain features you might do something as the teacher and think your
students can see it and they can't so you need to explain to them that they need to click on both
the participants window and the chat window as well to make sure that they can communicate with
the students now in this case now we've got both of the windows open they can see themselves I've
called me and the student is called Tom and they can see the teacher here and they can also chat by
just clicking here at the bottom and saying hello everyone and that is sent to everybody in the room
sorry I spelled everyone okay so really really important points and when I've been doing some
training this week I've been doing quite a lot of individual training once I'd learned to use
this technology that was coming up as a problem however there are some really good features in
zoom in terms of teaching and we're going to focus on those in a minute okay so now we're going to
start to go into the part where we're gonna do some live sessions with teachers so that you can
kind of see what both the student can see and what the teacher can do and we're gonna start with me
being the participant and my friend Keith being the presenter we're going to talk about the audio
first because you can't have all your students speaking you've got to think about what you're
going to do to deal with that problem you can get the students to raise your hand their hands and
you can turn their audio on and I'm going to take you through that and highlight how we can deal
with it so when you're working with the audio you'll see the list of your students here and
the first thing is you can mute them all if you haven't muted them before they come into the room
you can mute them all here and then you can just roll over a participant and you can either turn
on or off their audio so that way you can say to a student when you want them to speak so they you
could they can either do that in a chat window or they can raise their hand and by doing that they
are able then you're you're able to say right okay I'm going to turn on the audio and you can
now speak because you can't have all the students speaking at the same time let's actually see Keith
doing that with me certain you want from here or I can turn you off right you wanna try that turn off
your audio yet it's already turned off your audio I could do that right so that that's interesting
for me to know this NC now I don't hear you but unless we turn you on again here yet then you go
back again brilliant okay so that's that's really really interesting that that facility so there's
seven so we talked a little bit about the things on the left hand side now there's a couple more
can you turn at the moment you can see me on the webcam do you have the control to get rid of my
ugly face yeah okay yeah I can you better get think of a sec with the video what got up here
is that I can if you boy and I can put your hand down yeah I can't silence you into the video menu
I can stop you look yeah then you just as a name so if you put in funny faces I'll turn you off if
you're putting me off and then let's just see if we can turn the video back on again yeah I'm just
done look before there we go okay then I need to click on that so that's really interesting
Keith when you stopped me right and then I need you to and then you set me up to start again I
had to click on start video to actually start that process yeah and I garrison obviously I'm running
the Spanish system ok keen to come to one of the most important things now and that's the ability
to screen share and the way that screen share works and this is really if you're a teacher this
is perhaps the most important thing I'll give you a couple of examples why first of all if you want
to play a video to your students you can open up the video onto your computer screen screen
share Froome and then you need to click on one button to make sure that the students can also
hear it and then you can play the video you can watch the video and they also see in the video
and once you finish you just stop the screen show and it comes back to normal so if you want them
perhaps to listen to a video and then to discuss questions the good thing about the screen share
is is one of the good things in zoom you've got control so when you pause it it's pause for them
as well not all screen sharing tools work like that now when you do screen share it doesn't
just have to be a video I could screen share for example an exercise so I can open up an exercise
onto the screen on my computer screen share it so the students can see it and then actually I can
even mark that exercise I can underline things on that exercise so to screen share I won't obviously
play my video while I'm doing this just to make it absolutely clear you come down to this button
here click on screen share and what you need to do is you need to choose which of the windows
you want to screen share so I'm going to screen share this tab because I want to play this video
but make sure that you click on this button here okay because if you click on that button it will
make sure that the audio plays for your students then click on the share button the video will
open you will now share in the screen and you can click on the video samba language helping
slave interventions and your presidented when you stop it stops for them as well you've got
control this is actually one of the really good features about working with zoom and then when
you've finished you click on stop and now you're back out of screen share that's the way screen
share works but I want to just take you through a few more things let's talk about some other ways
that you can use screen share okay so let's look at another option this could be with a document it
could be with a picture again I'm just trying to make the point that you can screen share anything
so I'm gonna screen share a PowerPoint slide and I'm going to click on share and open that onto the
screen the students will be able to see this now but if I come up to the top here and click over
on a note I can even choose to be able to draw on that screen so I can mark things as I'm talking
about them and that can be quite useful okay now a little tip if you're on this screen for example
and then you click on here and you want to move to the next screen so let's say I moved back to
this one you'll notice that the drawing still on the screen so while you're on that screen make
sure you come over to clear click on clear all drawings and then move to your next screen and
then of course the drawings will be click out of the way I hope that videos was useful please come
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