Zoom – Faculty Learning Hub

February 5, 2024

Student Engagement Through Industry Software Demonstrations and Peer Feedback

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ryanne Spies has taught at Conestoga full-time since 2013, and for a number of years as a part-time/sessional professor. Prior to teaching, she worked as...

Faculty Stories/Teaching

September 19, 2023

Teaching in Zoom

Reading Time: 4 minutes At Conestoga, many faculty use Zoom to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use Zoom...

Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams

July 6, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Annotate

Reading Time: 3 minutes Opportunities to share reactions, expressions, and ideas are vital to the creation of a rich learning environment and classroom community. Even when classes are conducted...

Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

March 27, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes Conestoga College encourages teamwork and collaboration in diverse groups where students can learn from each other. Small group discussions in person or virtually help promote...

Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech For Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

January 9, 2023

More Ways to Up Engagement in Your Synchronous Online Class

Reading Time: 5 minutes Creating Opportunities for Higher Levels of Engagement Students experience higher learning gains when they are taught through a more interactive classroom (Knight & Wood, 2005)....

Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

October 25, 2022

Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 7 minutes “[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching

July 9, 2022

Informed Student Participation in Class Recordings

Reading Time: 4 minutes This teaching tip offers suggestions for helping students understand the way a course may use and distribute recordings. It explains the recording features of Zoom and Teams...

Online Synchronous/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams

May 12, 2022

What’s New in Zoom?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Zoom is constantly updating and adding new features. Consider allowing automatic updates to your Zoom client to take advantage of new features and maximize your...

Zoom or Teams

May 2, 2022

HyFlex Rooms

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is HyFlex? Hybrid Flexible (commonly known as HyFlex) is a course delivery mode where students can choose to participate in classes either synchronously or...

Classroom Tech/Tech For Teaching

May 1, 2022

Polls in Zoom

Reading Time: < 1 minute One way to improve students’ participation in synchronous learning activities can be to use polls in Zoom. Using single and multiple choice questions, you can...

Gamification/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams

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