New Features of Zoom Make sure you have
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New Features of Zoom
Make sure you have the latest version of Zoom • From a browser, go to zoom. us/download • Latest version as of 1/20/2021 is 5. 4. 0. 0 • (how to find that – download the installer and hover mouse over it) • Zoom’s site says there was going to be another version released Monday, January 25, but it has “been deferred to a future date”) • Students have to update too!
• https: //blog. zoom. us/4 -new-zoom-features-educators-can-use-toenhance-virtual-teaching-learning/ • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Wjw. ZTRve 3 Zc All the Top new Features in Zoom • https: //www. google. com/search? client=firefox-b-1 d&q=how+to+blur+background+in+zoom#kpvalbx=_Ovw. IYNu. ABYib 5 g. Kdt. Ji. QAQ 15 how to blur background on Zoom • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=98 FVEop. GCcw
• Rearrange the participants’ pictures in the Gallery View, new entries to the meeting are added to bottom, right or next page. • Being able to pin a video window – and more than one • Useful for students who are using an interpreter due to deafness • Have speaker in one window, interpreter in another
Sharing Powerpoint slides • Using a Powerpoint slide set as the background • Note that it requires a more-than-basic computer (CPU, ram) • Screen sharing / Advanced / choose slides and click Share • Choose the pptx file and open • Controls for moving between slides at the bottom of the screen • Your video (face) will appear on the slides, can be moved around
Breakout Rooms • Participants can choose the room themselves • And can move from one room to another themselves • Co-host can also manage breakout rooms • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=G 7 fybu. BNZQQ How to share content when students are in breakout rooms
Video settings • From camera icon • Advanced video settings • “Adjust for low light” with slider – don’t go overboard with this, can end up with glare • Can adjust to either 25 or 49 participants in Gallery view
Audio settings • Audio settings under microphone icon • “suppress background noise”
Security • “End-to-end encryption” • but cannot chat! • Has to be turned on from both ends