Teaching group classes? Breakout rooms are smaller Zoom rooms you can separate your students into for small group activities. This could be anything from collaborating on a task or presentation to practicing a dialogue or mini debate together. Breakout rooms tend to work best with teenage or adult students, who have the maturity to work […]
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Want to inspire your students with an immersive virtual environment that puts them right in the context of your lesson topic? Check out Zoom immersive mode: Immersive mode This relatively new Zoom feature enables you to create or use a pre-made virtual background in which you and your students are directly positioned on the image
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Let’s learn how to record your classes, on both the Zoom free and pro plans: Note that on the free plan, you can only save locally (to your computer), whereas on the pro plan you can also opt to save to the cloud for more convenient sharing with students.
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Let’s learn how to schedule a class on Zoom: Scheduling a class To schedule a meeting on Zoom, first navigate to the “home” tab. Here, there are several options. The orange “new meeting” button will start a meeting straight away, whereas the blue “schedule” option allows you to schedule a meeting in advance. Once you
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Are you a school with multiple teachers? Our school plan allows you to manage your teachers’ memberships and billing in one central admin account: Sign up for the school plan today, or visit your account page to manage your teaching team.
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Struggling to choose the best teaching platform for you, or need guidance on using the Abridge Academy resources with your virtual classroom? Check out our detailed platform guides and free courses: Teaching platform quick guides Teaching platform free courses
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Abridge Academy lessons come with downloadable homework workbooks your students can use for extra practice outside of class. Let’s learn how to find and send these:
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Overwhelmed with writing extended essays in your after-class feedback? No worries – Abridge Academy has you covered with our automated lesson feedback report templates! These simplify lesson feedback to just a 2 minute activity at the end of every lesson:
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Do your students need a bit of extra practice when learning new vocabulary? Make your vocabulary teaching more engaging and memorable with these top tips:
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Struggling to guess how to play a particular game or activity? Need some extra tips for extension activities or grammar explanations? Check out the teacher notes on every slide:
