Running a Zoom Session
Know the various features of Zoom and how to enable and use them in your meeting.
Breakout Rooms
You can break your Zoom session into a number of breakout rooms. You define how many rooms and how to assign participants (either automatically, manually or by allowing participants to self-assign).
You can break your Zoom session into a number of breakout rooms. You define how many rooms and how to assign participants (either automatically, manually or by allowing participants to self-assign).
- Automatically: Zoom divides participants evenly across the number of rooms you specify
- Manually: you decide which participants are allocated to each of the rooms
- Participants choose: you specify the number of rooms and open them; participants can then select which room to join and can move between the open rooms as they desire (check out UAB's short video on Self Select Breakout Rooms)
'Zoom Bombing'
This is where someone who is not invited to be in your teaching session joins via a public link and uses screen-sharing to project graphic content to unwitting participants, forcing hosts to shut down their online session.
If you are running a teaching session in Zoom, and one of your students behaves inappropriately, this is not Zoom bombing. This is a student conduct issue.
Things to consider to prevent Zoom bombing:
This is where someone who is not invited to be in your teaching session joins via a public link and uses screen-sharing to project graphic content to unwitting participants, forcing hosts to shut down their online session.
If you are running a teaching session in Zoom, and one of your students behaves inappropriately, this is not Zoom bombing. This is a student conduct issue.
Things to consider to prevent Zoom bombing:
- only have link details available on access controlled sites like Blackboard (i.e. do not share Zoom links on public platforms).
- consider using a password.
- understand where and how to mute, turn off camera or eject students from a meeting.
- set out Zoom session etiquette with students.
- make sure settings allow Host to control who shares screen and when.
- consider having a co-host to moderate activity.