As the new semester begins (virtually!), we’d like to provide a quick round-up of all the latest Zoom security settings and features that are available for you to use in your classes, meetings or events. Enable Automatic Updates: Updating your Zoom software is important for keeping your security settings up-to-date, and will also provide you…
Category: Zoom
Technology and Course Materials Preparation for Spring 2022
As we plan for a remote start to the semester, and the hiccups and disruptions that we now understand are part of teaching in COVID-times, the Research Support & Curricular Technology team is here to support you. Contact us at teachtech@conncoll.edu with your questions or to schedule an appointment. Zoom: Maybe it’s been awhile since…
Zoom Feature: Immersive PowerPoint
A new Zoom feature some may have noticed is “PowerPoint as Virtual Background.” This feature, in Beta, overlays the speaker’s video feed onto a PowerPoint presentation and places PowerPoint controls within Zoom (advance slide, etc): To use this feature, select “Advanced” from the Screen Share menu, then “PowerPoint as Virtual Background.” You’ll then be prompted…
Zoom Feature: Captions
We are excited to announce that Zoom has made closed captioning available to all licensed Connecticut College users! This means that you can enable machine-generated captions or live transcripts for your Zoom meetings and online classes, and your participants can choose to make those features visible on their individual views. We highly encourage all meeting…
Zoom Feature: Sharing a Portion of Your Screen
Now that we are almost a full year into online teaching and learning, we are all very familiar with sharing our screen during the course of a class, meeting, or virtual presentation. It is second nature for us to share our entire screen or a single application during our many Zoom sessions. But did you…
New Zoom Feature: Co-host and Breakout Rooms
As of last week, Zoom introduced a new feature we know some of you will be very excited about. Co-hosts now have the same breakout room controls as the meeting host! This means that any named co-host in a Zoom Meeting can start Breakout Rooms, assign attendees to them, and visit them. Note that hosts…
