Katie

As a UK qualified teacher (PGCE, QTS and TEFL), Katie has taught in the UK, Japan and China as well as online. She has experience working with every age group from young learners up to university preparation classes, including English as a Second Language and STEM subjects. Outside of teaching, Katie loves learning languages and travelling!

Zoom: Remote control

While the basic Zoom tools allow your students to engage with your lesson through annotations, you can take your teaching to the next level by and allow full interactivity with the Abridge Academy lessons using the Remote Control tool. Remote control feature The remote control feature allows you to give students control of your mouse […]

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Teaching on DingTalk

DingTalk (known as DingDing in China) is a popular Chinese messaging app for businesses – aiming to be a professional equivalent of WeChat for work purposes. They also launched a “virtual classroom” system, which was a popular option for Chinese schoolteachers who were taking their classes online during the coronavirus pandemic. Advantages and disadvantages Advantages

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Teaching on ClassIn

ClassIn is one of the most popular Chinese online teaching software systems. Unlike Zoom, ClassIn has been specifically designed for online teaching, so has several additional features which can be very valuable for students. This lesson will briefly introduce ClassIn and some of the key features. We will learn how to create a class, invite

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Teaching on Zoom, VooV or Zhumu

One of the most popular online teaching/ conference software platforms worldwide is Zoom. Originally designed for business conferences, Zoom became particularly popular with teachers taking their classes online during the pandemic, and it is also used by many online tutoring companies such as Outschool. However, Zoom is only partly accessible in China – students can

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