Early this year, after the pandemic had moved my classroom online, a student asked if we could try “silent meetings” in a course I was teaching. At first I assumed that, like many of us, he was just ...

Set up your Zoom meeting link and distribute it to your students. If you plan to hold class (or office hours, or some other recurring meeting time) over Zoom, schedule your meeting as a recurring ...

Before Covid-19, when I taught in person, I always asked my students to post weekly essays on a discussion board I call the “sandbox.” During the pandemic, the sandbox has proved an effective way to ...

“There is a way to be good again.” This was the topic that we discussed in our recent Zoom class. It’s from the book “The Kite Runner” and it is this thought that leads to the main character’s ...

During class, students will often type everything a professors says. This sort of rote stenography is very, very ineffective. First, students have to focus so hard on capturing every word that they ...

Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month-old startup has now raised ...

In the last 14 months, we’ve had to get creative about finding new ways to be together and learn new things. Those of us lucky enough to have a strong internet connection and a working computer have ...

Remember the mad scramble to lock down all the Zoom videoconferences and remote classes with passwords to keep random miscreants from popping in uninvited? Well, Zoom reached an agreement in a ...