Happy digital teaching!
Get to know Zoom
Install the correct version of Zoom
All students and staff at UiO are licensed to use the full version of Zoom, where privacy and security are better than the free version of Zoom, and UiO has made key settings to further enhance security.
Have you already used or installed Zoom?
Main features of Zoom
Once you have logged in to Zoom, you will enter a main menu, where you can choose to create meetings, join meetings or plan future meetings.
Try it out with a colleague
Before your first meeting or lecture, you should try out Zoom with a colleague. Send an invitation, start the activity and see how the different features you want to use, actually works. If you should encounter problems, you can fix them or contact your local IT staff to get help before your first digital lecture. After testing, problems will have been dealt with, and you can meet your students with confidence.
Invite the students to class
If you use Zoom with Canvas, your invitations to classes/lectures will show up directly in the students' schedule with the correct meeting ID.
To learn more about how to use Zoom with Canvas, you should take the online course which guides you through the most important features for using Zoom together with Canvas, including:
- how to activate the Canvas room in Zoom
- how to invite to meetings via Zoom in the course Canvas room
- send Zoom links to external guest lecturers
- administration of participant list
- Go to the Zoom and Canvas online course (in Norwegian only)
Preparations before inviting to a meeting
If the course you are reaching is not in Canvas, you can invite students to lectures in Zoom in from Zoom or from Outlook.
- Create and invite to meetings (lectures) from Zoom
- Cerate and invite to meetings (lectures) from Outlook
Do you want to learn more about Zoom?
See all Zoom guides for UiO users
Inspiration for better digital teaching?
If you need inspiration to plan the pedagogical side of teaching, KURT and LINK have created a great website for better digital teaching.
Plan your digital teaching
Digital teaching requires a different type of preparation than regular teaching.
It is important to ensure that there is a correspondence between what you want the students to learn, how the teaching is carried out and which forms of assessment you use. The pedagogical choices you make provide guidance on how the teaching activities should be set up, and how and when to use the digital tools such as Zoom.
Practical preparations in Zoom
- Using co-hosts, alternative hosts and UiO external hosts
- Meeting or a webinar? What is the difference?
- Consider whether you want the participants to register (security feature)
- See how you can
The lecture
The actual digital lecture does not have to be so different from regular teaching. You can read up on different ways of conducting lectures and seminars, on our website about conducting digital teaching.
Some general advice is:
- Lower your shoulders, and breathe and talk calmly through the activity
- Make shorter sessions, preferably of twenty minutes duration
- Ask for feedback from students between sessions so that they have a slightly more active role.
- Review these guides:
Tips for practical preparations before a teaching activity
- Test your microphone and camera in advance so you know that it works.
- Sit well, straight back. Make sure that the camera is level with your eyes. It is never a good idea to film yourself from under the chin or nose.
- Have a visually orderly and tidy background. Optionally use UiO backgrounds.
- Encourage the students to use video. It is much nicer for everyone if you can see each other, and also makes it easier for lecturers and fellow students to talk when you can see each other.
Recording the lecture?
You can record lectures and other teaching, as long as you follow UiO's regulations for streaming and recording digital teaching.
- See the UiO website about privacy when streaming and recording lectures
- See regulations for streaming and recording of digital teaching
There are different provisions for compulsory and voluntary teaching. Familiarize yourself well with the regulations in advance of any recording or streaming.
Make recordings available to students
Use the integrated feature "Kursopplasting" to upload your video to the semester page and the students' timetables. See guide for uploading video to the semester page / timetable.
Questions?
- Techincal questions or questions about tools and applications: Contact the UiO Helpdelsk
- See all guides and help pages for Zoom at the UiO
- Do you need help with the pedagogical part of digital teaching? Contact KURT eller LINK. See points of contact for pedagogical advice