{"id":15664,"date":"2020-08-04T14:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=15664"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:28:41","slug":"student-engagement-in-synchronous-zoom-class-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/student-engagement-in-synchronous-zoom-class-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Engagement in Synchronous Zoom Class Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\"><a title=\"Zoom meeting\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@cwmonty\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/chris-montgomery-smgTvepind4-unsplash.jpg?resize=625%2C469\" alt=\"laptop screen with image of Zoom window with camera screen on\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Many faculty find themselves teaching remotely because of the pandemic. One topic related to remote teaching that comes up often is student engagement during Zoom class meetings. Instructors who meet their students synchronously through Zoom want to know that the students are paying attention and are engaged during the class session. Some instructors feel that for student engagement in a synchronous class they should force the students to turn their cameras on during the class meetings. This article by Karen Costa, a Faculty Development Facilitator, explains why it is a <strong>really bad idea<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/cameras-damned-karen-costa\/\">force students to turn their cameras on<\/a> from a trauma-awareness and equity perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for ideas for student engagement in Zoom sessions that do not require you to force your students to turn their cameras on?  In an article posted on LinkedIn, Karen Costa provides some practical strategies that can help you to engage your students in a Zoom session. A few of her strategies are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourage students to use non-verbal feedback including raise\/lower virtual hand, answer yes\/no to questions, speed up\/slow down, and emoji reactions (clapping hands, thumbs up).<\/li>\n<li>Ask informal questions throughout the session and encourage students to use the chat to engage with you and their peers.<\/li>\n<li>Use formal and\/or informal polls.<\/li>\n<li>Embrace the pause. Pause during the class session to give students time to think and answer.<\/li>\n<li>Invite students to share out via audio and or audio\/video in addition to answering in the chat.<\/li>\n<li>Teach students how to be on-camera in a Zoom session (e.g., lighting, background, virtual background, mute\/unmute microphone).<\/li>\n<li>Normalize the fear of being on-camera.<\/li>\n<li>Try using breakout rooms.<\/li>\n<li>Make the chat the heart of your session.<\/li>\n<li>Set the tone for engagement from moment one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this has piqued your interest, you can read more about these strategies in Karen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/making-shapes-zoom-karen-costa\/\">Making Shapes in Zoom<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we have Zoom how-to resources on our CAT FooD blog. You can find links for the Zoom how-to resources here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/#zoom\">Zoom How-to Resources for Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/#Zoom-student\">Zoom How-to Resources for Students<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>Photo credit: \u201cZoom call with coffee\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@cwmonty\">Chris Montgomery<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/license\">Unsplash<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many faculty find themselves teaching remotely because of the pandemic. One topic related to remote teaching that comes up often is student engagement during Zoom class meetings. Instructors who meet their students synchronously through Zoom want to know that the students are paying attention and are engaged during the class session. Some instructors feel that <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/student-engagement-in-synchronous-zoom-class-sessions\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Student Engagement in Synchronous Zoom Class Sessions\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[127,457],"class_list":{"0":"post-15664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"category-teaching","8":"tag-engaging-students","9":"tag-zoom","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-44E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16906,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-student-engagement-in-synchronous-zoom-class-sessions\/","url_meta":{"origin":15664,"position":0},"title":"ICYMI: Student Engagement in Synchronous Zoom Class Sessions","author":"Janice Florent","date":"June 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many faculty are teaching remotely as a result of the pandemic. 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