Communicate and Interact with Participants
Read about how to ask effective questions that better support learning outcomes, then use the Zoom tools such as chat, Q&A, polls, and non-verbal feedback icons to ask and answer questions.
NOTE: Be sure to enable these features under your Meeting Settings tab in the Penn State Zoom Web Portal in advance of your session.
Ask and Answer Questions with Chat
- Zoom: Questioning Strategies to Increase Engagement Download Zoom: Questioning Strategies to Increase Engagement (PSU resource, Word Optimized for Accessibility )
- Zoom: Questioning Strategies to Increase Engagement Download Zoom: Questioning Strategies to Increase Engagement (PSU resource, PDF Optimized for Printing)
- Chatting in a Zoom Meeting Links to an external site. (External resource)
- Enabling or Disabling In-Meeting Chat
Links to an external site. (External resource)
- NOTE: Control who the participants can chat with: everyone or only the host.
Gather Information and Check for Understanding
- Using Non-Verbal Feedback and Meeting Reactions
Links to an external site. (External resource)
- NOTE: Meeting participants can select from a variety of non-verbal feedback icons such as raise hand, yes, no, etc.
- Conducting Polling in Meetings Links to an external site. (External resource)
- Conducting Polls in Webinars Links to an external site. (External resource)