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Update: How to Use HyFlex Classroom
This past December, we made the following updates to How to Use HyFlex Rooms document (Google Doc):
Limitations of the Room Whiteboard
Using the physical whiteboard in your HyFlex classroom is relatively easy. However, we want to make you aware of a few limitations.
- Remote Zoom students have a harder time seeing the whiteboard; use Zoom's Spotlight feature(opens in new window) to help with this.
- You need whiteboard markers that work.
- Some HyFlex classrooms have environmental or space restrictions where the camera cannot be mounted in a position to see the whiteboard.
Annotating on your IPAD
Join your existing Zoom Meeting from your IPAD
- From your tablet, open the link to your Zoom meeting.
- Choose Do Not Connect to Audio if you are using it for the whiteboard.
- From Zoom, select Share Content. See below for annotation tips.
Zoom Whiteboard
- Pros: relatively easy, pretty darn decent control with Apple pencil
- Cons: Limited screen real estate; must save as a photo
Note-taking Apps
- Apple Notes(opens in new window)
- Pros: More sophisticated than zoom whiteboard, enables embedding media
- Cons: Single, scrolling note; not as easy to screen share as zoom whiteboard
- Notability(opens in new window)
- Pros: Allows you to add sections to your notes, import/export to your preferred storage area (Google Drive, Box etc), embed media
- Cons: Costs around $10, a little more difficult to screen share
Slides, Documents, PDFs
- Google Slides(opens in new window)
- It appears you cannot use Google's normal presentation markup
- You must export to PDF and then select Apple Markup
- PowerPoint(opens in new window)