Zoom Brings New Features To Upgrade Your Classroom Experience

Zoom video calling app has turned out to be one of the most successful and trending apps, amid this lockdown. Be it business meetings or daily classrooms, it has helped to establish smooth communications between the masses, which resulted in unhindered working amid the prevailing Covid-19 situations.

Zoom aims to make the entire process of communication more effective, from the prospect of schools and various educational institutions. For this, it has announced to introduce some of the new features to its app that will eventually upgrade your virtual classroom experience.

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New Features To Be Introduced Include

Spotlight Feature: With this, teachers can design their class layout, by managing the seating arrangement of all the participants. This arrangement will not get affected by the entry or exit of any new participant. Along with this teachers can create a spotlight group of 9 participants, that will be visible at once, which will help in improving the focused group view.

Multi-pinning: Zoom brings this feature, keeping in mind, the needs of physically challenged students who are hard of hearing. Through this students can create a group of 9, which will include a teacher, an interpreter, and they themselves. Along with it, for students who wish to read together can create a customized group of 9 and begin reading together.

Audio Control: This feature will help teachers to selectively mute a student, only if a student grants the permission to do so, prior to calling. The settings will remain unchanged unless the student modifies it manually.

Original Sound: For the teachers that host music class, and find it difficult to manage it online, this feature is for them. Switching this mode disables the echo around (echo cancellation). Further, this feature helps to upgrade the audio from 2kHz to 48Khz, 96Kbps mono/192Kbps giving a better sound quality.

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To Sum Up

Introductions like these will undoubtedly boost the learning process. That will surely offer both teachers and students a platform to explore a new education system. Because of features like these, we expect a revolution both in teaching and learning patterns.

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