Zoom is for SYNCHRONOUS meetings/lectures. Other services like this you might be familiar with would be Skype or Google Hangouts. You could schedule a Zoom meeting for your class and email them the link to join. With Zoom, you'll be able to see your students, speak to them, have them speak to each other and to you, etc. You can share your screen to show them something on your computer or a whiteboard. You can have them share their screens or whiteboard as well. There are even annotation tools when sharing a screen or whiteboard. A really useful feature of Zoom is that you can use Breakout Rooms. So if you have a class of 20 and you'd like them to discuss something in groups of 4, you can make 5 breakout rooms. You can then pull them back into the main room when you're ready.

Note about recording Zoom meetings: Depending on the circumstances, it is very possible that you have a few students that do not have computers and that would make it difficult for them to join the Zoom meeting. There is a mobile app but I don't know that I'd want to rely solely on that for a whole 40 minute meeting. As a result, you should consider recording your meetings and uploading them to Panopto for students to view on their own time later.

Getting Help with Zoom

The zoom support page. has tutorials and guides for every single thing you could do in zoom.
This Using Zoom page I created is also helpful and focuses more on the essentials.
Zoom created this PDF that's a guide for teaching with Zoom.
- Note: That PDF has links to a bunch of other Zoom resources too.
- This file is a sample of what you could send to your students to help them.
This Zoom Test room. is a great place to practice
This is the download page where you can get the Zoom Client for Meetings.
This video shows you how to record a Zoom meeting and then upload it to Panopto for your students to view later.
- My apologies for this particular video being less well-scripted than my videos usually are. I made it quickly to get it on this page. I'll re-make it after the COVID-19 scare is over.
As always, you can also contact the IT Helpdesk at helpdesk@wilson.edu