How do you decide how long a virtual classroom session should be?

Hi all,

I'm just doing some thinking around the length of virtual classroom (not webinar) sessions. Often they can be an hour, 90 minutes or more, but obviously can be 30 minutes or shorter, a couple of hours or even all day.

How do you decide how lo

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Zoom Facilitator and Participant Experiences?

I have been conducting virtual classroom training for many years. I have used Adobe Connect and WebEx Training as my virtual platforms for the vast majority of that time. I am currently facing a potential platform change to Zoom. In my research and t

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Online fatigue and how we should design our online programmes

We know that 'zoom fatigue' exists and maybe some ways individually how to avoid it:

1. Article in the National Geographic about why it happens
2. Article in the Harvard Business Review on how to avoid it

 

My question is:

Is there any research or empirical gui

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If it can go wrong, it will go wrong!

Hello all.

What are some of the most common issues that go 'wrong' in a webinar or virtual classroom session?

I have things like:
- People can't login
- People can't hear

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Annotation tools (workaround) on MS Teams

HI Lightbulbers !

 

I need to try and run an activity asking people to annotate a slide.  MS Teams doesnt have this (to my knowledge!) and wondered if anyone has a nifty workaround?  I am pretty good at most MS Teams Hacks - but this one is escaping me

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Pre Workshop Instructions

Morning I will be starting a series of Virtual Workshops next month on MS Teams. I would like to send a pre event message to help with the etiquettes and expectations of the attendees. Can anybody advise on the best practise in this communication or

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Adobe Connect 11!

It's here! Adobe Connect, the latest version has been launched, and it's packed full of new features and improved underlying technology. 

If you are a Connect user, or if you have found Connect to be a little clunky in the past, this upgrade is for y

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Clearing chat window?

Hi everyone, I can't find a way to clear the chat window in Zoom, like I can in Adobe Connect. Does anyone know if it can be done? Thanks!

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External company email addresses not able to see whiteboard on Teams

Hi All 

I am hoping that someone will be able to give me some advice and guidance.  I am currently using Zoom to deliver online classrooms however the IT department wishes me to use Microsoft teams (understand as zoom is an additonal expense).  The ch

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Online learning in Africa

I'm really interested to hear from people who have experience of delivering virtual classroom training in Africa. The bandwidth issues can be challenging when using platforms like Adobe Connect. Has anyone delivered over mobile technology?

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Use of names - how important is it?

I'm on a webinar/webcast and the host asked my question from chat by saying "someone has asked xxx" and then added with my comment "and someone has said xxx". Great that they asked my question at an appropriate point.

However, they didn't use my name

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Should you use chat in large webinars?

Hi all!

We had a great question from Wouter that was asked in a different thread about Producing. I thought it deserved its own thread so will copy it all out here below:

Wouter Ceyssens

"Hi,

Question concerning hosting webinars for 200+ attendees.
C

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