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WebEx: High-Leverage Reminders

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This week’s content is quick, especially valuable to those of you who are comfortable with the basics of WebEx, but would appreciate a reminder about some of the other teacher moves you can make using the WebEx platform.

http://Teaching in WebEx: High-Leverage Reminders (4:34)

At this point, you’ve taught more live WebEx classes than you ever thought possible. And you have made it this far. Are there aspects of WebEx instruction that continue to be troublesome? Are there rough edges that you’d like to minimize? A few tips or reminders might help.

In this video we’ll discuss: 1) the quickest (and easiest!) way to toggle back and forth during screen share; 2) setting up your virtual instruction space to give yourself a real-time canvas; 3) how to mirror your space so the computer’s perspective is the same as your own, and 4) a couple of reminders to keep your WebEx environment as safe and distraction-free as possible.

Additional Resource: Tips and Tricks for Cisco WebEx (10:03) – This is not a slick video, but she had me with her first tip:  how to turn off the “beep beep” whenever someone comes in late.  She starts with a preview of her content:  see if there’s anything here for you.

Let’s Chat! Using the Chat Bar to Maximize Engagement and Innovate Assessment

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The WebEx chat bar may be the most under-utilized tool in your virtual classroom. Few tools are easier for you to use, while also increasing the engagement of your students.

Every time students type in the chat, they are more engaged in your classroom. Every. Single. Time. Asking them to type in the chat a few times per WebEx session is good strategy because these will be more likely to be present and engaged with your content.

However, asking them to type in the chat bar is also good strategy for you because it provides you such an easy way to see if they are learning what you want them to be learning. Creating some routines and expectations around student use of the chat bar – if you do not already do this – has the power to transform your virtual classroom.

Please watch the attached video for chat bar engagement strategies learned from Columbia’s Teacher College. Let’s Chat:  Your Simplest Tool to Maximize Engagement and Innovate Assessment, 7:05.

Links in the “Let’s Chat!” Video: Baylor University,  Polls in WebEx 2:15; Edutech, Six Questions to Improve your Virtual Classroom (2:08)