1st Zoom Lecture for ACCT1511 1B Term 2

Hi Everyone,

• Turn off for the "Waiting Room" option, this way students can come in to the meeting straight away, no need to click 'admit'.

• Turn off for the "Only authenticated users can join: Sign in to Zoom" because around 10 students couldn't do this sign in, I'm not sure why that this. This way any student can click on the link, then type in their own name themselves.

• You can make a person a co-host in advance - if they are going to be lecturing as well on the course. You can do this by copying in their email address into the 'co-host' box down the bottom of the "Advanced Options".

See my intro slides for the first lecture here. 

I just taught the very 1st Zoom Lecture for ACCT1511 1B Term 2 this morning and it worked great!

Just some tips for you - when you create the Zoom Meeting in the "Advanced Options" (see attached) for the meeting make sure you:

I had about 10 students who sent me an email saying they couldn't login because I had accidentally left the "Only authenticated..." setting turned on and even though they tried going to the Zoom website to authenticate themselves it wouldn't let them through. I can only assume that there is a Zoom issue. So I did a last minute work around (flying by the seat of our pants, MacGyver style) and sent them via email a Microsoft Teams link for a Meeting and I shared my screen of the Zoom and hosted them in Microsoft Teams. This is a good work around. I found that the Hand raise button had disappeared for the Zoom Lecture, I'm not sure why, I'll have to investigate this. When I launched a subsequent meeting by myself it had appeared ok. 

I played some music during the waiting period at the start of the lecture and also during the breaks this made it more relaxing than the silence of Zoom with nothing happening. 

I ran a feedback survey at the end of the Lecture and student were happy - the only comment was they asked for more use of Polls to liven up the class. The latest version of Zoom does allow you to prepare Polls at the start of a class and you can reuse the questions later on. At the start of a lecture click on the "Polls" button and then there is an "add" section, this will launches a web-browser to load polls. You can then select the Polls as the lecture continues. I ran 3 polls during the introduction section of the lecture and students seemed to enjoy this. In these polls I asked students some general questions such as "How are you feeling today?" and "Why are you studying 1B?" "How long ago did you study 1A?", just to gauge a bit of the audience and how they are going. I think using Polls will be great feature to liven up the Lectures during the Term. There were some great chat-box questions posted and I stayed around for about 5 minutes after the lecture and students asked a few questions at the end. 

You are all welcome to come sit-in on the 1B Lectures during the Term to check it out - I have posted the links in the School's Online Teaching Channel. There are 3 more lectures this week for 1B! 703 students enrolled and increasing daily with more students signing up. Week 2 our tutorials will start, the tutors will use Collaborate Ultra because for most of them they are very comfortable using Collaborate. We will use Socrative as the polling system and ask students to login to Socrative in advance of the tutorial and then push question to them. 

Overall great to survive the first lecture of Term 2! 

Looking forward to hearing how your week goes!