By Dr. Hassan Jaleel
Synchronous Lectures
- Online lectures via Zoom/Google hangouts/Skype etc.
- Pros: Interactive sessions
- Cons: Requires access to high bandwidth internet connection
Asynchronous Lectures
- Record lectures offline and upload on LMS
- Pros: Does not require high bandwidth internet
- Cons: Lacks active interaction with students during lecture
Synchronous + Asynchronous Lectures
- Deliver online lectures via Zoom/Google hangouts/Skype etc
- Record these online sessions
- Upload the recorded lectures on LMS
- Interactive lectures with the students who can join online
- Students without access to high bandwidth internet can watch recorded lectures
Quick Guide to Zoom
- Download the desktop app from the link https://zoom.us/download and install it. Zoom can also be installed on cell phones and tablets.
- Create a free account using your LUMS email address.
- Sign in using your account. You will see the following window
Meeting Setup
Meetings can be scheduled in advance
- Click on Schedule tab
- Fill in the details regarding the start time and
- meeting duration. For Meeting ID you can
- select Generate Automatically or
- Personal Meeting ID. The Meeting ID is important
- as it enables other participants to join in the meeting.
- Press Schedule tab at the bottom once all
- the required information is provided
Meeting Setup
- Once a meeting is setup, you can click on the Meeting tab at the top to see your scheduled meetings
- To send an invitation to others one easy easy way is to click on Copy Invitation
- You can send the invitation to your students through an email via LMS
- The announcement contains zoom meeting link as well as the Meeting ID
Zoom Meeting
- The meeting window looks like this
- Each participant can
- Mute/Unmute personal audio
- Start/Stop personal video
- Raise hand to ask question
- Share screen
Screen Sharing
- Each participant can share personal screen via Share Screen.
- Share screen provides various options
- You can either share your screen or a particular application running on your system.
- There is a white board option as well for scribbling
- These options are useful for quickly switching between different applications like power point/pdf and some software like MATLAB for live demonstration.
Meeting Recording
- The host can also record the meeting
- Click on the more tab at the bottom
- There is an option to Record on this computer
- Once recording starts, everyone can see it on the top left corner of the window
Meeting Recording
- Once recording stops and the meeting ends, Zoom formats the video and compresses it.
- The resulting video is saved in the \Documents\Zoom
- You can change the settings of video recording from Settings/Recordings
Synchronous + Asynchronous Lectures
- Deliver online lecture by scheduling a meeting on Zoom.
- Use screen sharing options for the slides or live demonstration.
- Use white board for short notes and scribbling using mouse.
- If you have a tablet with stylus, you can write comprehensive notes using white board or any other writing app
- Record the live lecture
- Upload the lecture on LMS or youtube for students who did not have access to high bandwidth internet.
Demonstration
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- Here is a link to an online lecture for EE569: Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xkpocBRT_LZH30u2pl8eiYN7TEit8yd2/view?usp=sharing
- I hosted the meeting through my personal laptop.
- Around 12 students attended the lecture.
- I also joined the meeting through my IPad pro. and shared the screen of my IPad.
- Instructions were given through a writing app in IPad pro.