Virtual Classroom (Zoom)
What is Virtual Classroom?
Zoom is a virtual classroom system that allows participants to communicate, view presentations, interact with learning resources and work in groups in an online classroom. The software can also be used to host a meeting with UQ and non-UQ people by simply sending them your meeting room URL.
Work with Zoom
- Installing Zoom (ITS)
- Customising your Zoom profile (Zoom)
- Zoom troubleshooting guide
- Organising a Zoom meeting (ITS)
- Joining or leaving a Zoom meeting (ITS)
- Test your audio (Zoom), video (YouTube, 1m 3s)
- Test your webcam (Zoom), video (YouTube, 1m 3s)
- Sharing a screen in a Zoom meeting (Zoom)
- Participating in Breakout Rooms (Zoom), video (YouTube, 1m 15s)
- In-Meeting Chat (Zoom), video (YouTube, 1m 14s)
- Reactions in a Zoom meeting, video (YouTube, 50s)
- Polling in a Zoom meeting, video (YouTube 1m 2s)
- Stopping all incoming video in a meeting or webinar (Zoom)
- Communicate and collaborate online (Digital Essentials)
Want to test?
If you wish to check your microphone and/or webcam works, email training@library.uq.edu.au one of our staff will be in touch to create a one-on-one Zoom meeting for testing purposes.
Zoom etiquette
We all have a role in creating a learning environment of mutual respect, courtesy and safety, including when using Zoom or other online teaching and learning platforms.
This requires consideration of some basic principles:
- Arrive on-time when Joining the Zoom meeting, as you would to any other class.
- Allow your tutor sufficient time to start the Zoom meeting. They may need to troubleshoot or wait for other students to join.
- Test your audio and test your webcam when joining the Zoom meeting.
- Mute your microphone on entry to the Zoom meeting and keep it muted.
- Keep your webcam off to preserve bandwidth, unless instructed to do otherwise.
- Raise your hand if you would like to ask a question verbally and wait until the host indicates that you can speak.
- Use the in-meeting chat to ask non-verbal questions and wait until the host finds time to answer your question.
- In the event of poor internet connection or drop-outs, click on the Zoom link again to re-join the Zoom meeting.
- If you encounter any technical issues, first refer to the Zoom troubleshooting guide. Otherwise, watch the recording at a later date (if available).