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A recurring class with one link, breakout rooms, polls and quizzes, focus mode, seating chart, recording a lesson and the attendance report.
A class in Zoom is an ordinary meeting that has a teacher with host rights, a permanent link for the course and a set of classroom tools: breakout rooms for group work, polls and quizzes, a whiteboard, the raised hand, focus mode so students see only the teacher, and a recording to come back to. After the lesson a report shows who was there, for how many minutes and what they answered in the quiz.
Students need no account; they join by link. The teacher needs a licence, and on the free plan a class will drop at the fortieth minute. Below, in order: before the class, during, after, and what the institution's administrator sets up.
| For whom | What |
|---|---|
| The teacher | A Zoom licence and the app; the account is created by the administrator of the institution or company |
| The student | The link to the class; the app is desirable, without it they join from a browser |
| The classroom | A screen and a camera in the room if some students are present; for a permanent room, Zoom Rooms |
| The administrator | An account in the educational organisation's name, single sign-on, recording policies |
On the free plan a group class lasts 40 minutes; the other limits are covered separately. A school, university or training department needs a licence for every teacher-host; the terms for educational organisations are on the Zoom for education page.
Do not create a new meeting for every lesson. In the app, "Schedule" → "Recurring meeting": weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, until the end of the term. The course will have one link and one ID; students add it to their calendar once. Settings worth switching on when scheduling:
or authenticated users only: strangers will not get into the lesson. On an educational organisation's account, joining can be limited to the school's domain.
the lesson starts quietly.
is off: without the teacher the class will not start the meeting.
, if lessons must be kept.
How to fill in the scheduling form step by step is in the scheduling guide. How to set who joins and who speaks is in the guide on participants and security. If students are registered in Zoom, the class can be gathered into a chat channel and called to a lesson with one button: how it works.
A presentation, a document, a browser window or a video with sound; how to start it is in the screen sharing guide. For explanations with drawing there is the whiteboard: both the teacher and students write, if allowed, and the board is saved and opens at the next lesson.
A student can draw over the shown slide: useful when going through a problem, harmful during a lecture. Switched on and off in the sharing menu.
A student raises a hand, the teacher sees the queue in the participants list and gives the floor. The reactions "yes", "no", "slower" replace a poll on the fly.
Questions along the way, links, files. In a large stream the chat is worth restricting: writing to the teacher only, so it does not turn into a conversation.
The class is divided into groups of three to five; each works in its own room, the teacher moves between rooms and brings everyone back at one click. Groups can be set in advance by list or students can be allowed to choose a room themselves. Details in the article on breakout rooms.
Prepared in advance, launched at any moment. Besides "single answer" and "multiple answers" there are matching, ranking, fill in the blank and short answer, and in quiz mode a correct answer is set and each student's score is counted. How to create a poll is in the polls guide.
The teacher sees all students, while students see only the teacher and the shared screen; other people's cameras and screens are hidden from them. Fewer distractions, more cameras on. Switched on in the "More" menu during the class.
The order of windows in the gallery can be rearranged and saved for this ID: at the next lesson the class "sits" the same way, and the roll call goes in order.
Automatic captions help those listening in a noisy place; for foreign students there are translated captions and simultaneous interpretation.
An online lesson loses the class after ten minutes of monologue. What works:
Any poll, even "which device are you on today". The class understands that answering is expected here.
An explanation, a question in the chat, a task in rooms, a walkthrough on the whiteboard.
Focus mode removes the main argument, "everyone can see me".
When joining, the student enters a first and last name; the teacher can rename too.
A five-question quiz instead of "is everything clear?".
What else to do with a class that is hard to gather is in the article on engagement: it is about webinars, but the techniques are the same.
A specialist from another city joins by link for twenty minutes, without installing or registering.
The teacher runs the lesson from a phone at a museum or a factory; the class watches and asks questions.
A student at home joins the lesson in the classroom, and if they could not, watches the recording.
A breakout room with a native speaker for ten minutes for each group in turn.
A waiting room from which the teacher admits one at a time.
for hundreds of listeners: that is already a webinar, with registration and a report.
Recording is switched on with the "Record" button or set to automatic when scheduling. In the cloud the recording gets a transcript and can be given to the class by a link with a password and no download; a local recording stays on the teacher's computer. What to choose and where to find what was recorded is in the recording guide. Breakout rooms are not recorded to the cloud; to record a group's work, allow local recording to one of its participants.
A Zoom AI summary after the class sends a digest with the main points: useful for those who missed it, and for the teacher to check what was said. On paid plans it is part of the licence.
In the teacher's account, section "Reports", for every class it is visible who joined, when, when they left and how many minutes they stayed. Poll and quiz results are exported as a table for each student. For the institution the administrator sees the same across all teachers, and on Business and above also the dashboard with connection quality. The types of reports are in the article on reports.
We set this up together with IT and train teachers: a licence works only when the teacher presses the right buttons without thinking. The terms for educational organisations and the buying procedure are on the Zoom for education page.
Schedule a recurring meeting with a waiting room, send one link for the course, use screen sharing, the whiteboard, polls and breakout rooms in the lesson, and look at the attendance report afterwards.
No, students join by link. The teacher needs an account. If the school requires sign-in for its own people only, students get accounts on the school's domain.
40 minutes with three or more participants. A paid teacher licence lifts the limit.
Breakout rooms: the button in the bottom bar, the number of rooms, assignment by hand, automatically or by the students' choice.
Polls → "Create" → quiz mode: questions with correct answers, each student's result in the report.
Students see only the teacher and the shared screen; the teacher sees everyone. Switched on in the "More" menu.
Account → "Reports" → "Usage" → the class → "Participants": join time, leave time and duration.
Yes, locally or to the cloud with a transcript. The recording can be given to the class by link without download.
It works without a VPN. Licences are bought under contract through a partner; the terms for educational organisations are on the Zoom for education page.
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