
You may also use the raise hand function to visually take stock of the number of students who would answer “Yes” to a certain question. Once you have addressed a student’s question, you can lower their hand by hovering over their name and clicking “Lower Hand.” Students are also able to lower their own raised hand. There will also be a blue hand icon on the top left-hand corner of their video windows. The students who have raised their hands will have a blue hand-shaped icon next to their names, and will move to the top of your participant list. In order to see who has raised their hand, you need to open the “Participants” tab in the menu bar at the bottom of your Zoom window. This is when Zoom’s “Raise Hand” function can be useful.Īsk your participants to use Zoom’s “Raise Hand” feature by clicking the “Participants” button and then pressing “Raise Hand”. However, once the number of participants in a Zoom session increases, it will become more difficult to see who has their hand raised further, you may not be able to see everyone’s video at the same time in Gallery View. Therefore, you may be able to have students simply physically raise their hands in their videos in order to signal to you that they want to share something. When interacting with about 10 or fewer students, it is possible to see all your students at once in Gallery View. Learn how to use Zoom Polls on our FAQ page. The built-in polling function can let you ask your students various multiple-choice questions within the Zoom meeting. Find out how to use this feature on our “ Breakout Rooms in Zoom” page. Breakout Rooms is a feature of Zoom that divides students into groups for small-group discussions. Two other Zoom features that facilitate participation are Breakout Rooms and Polls.

You may want to share the “ Zoom Guide for Participants” with students in order to inform them about using various Zoom functions in order to participate in class. This page will cover the following Zoom functions: You can also solicit more detailed non-verbal feedback from students during a meeting by enabling buttons that allow for students to vote yes/no, ask for a break, and more. You can see which students want to contribute to class discussion with the “Raise Hand” tool, and allow for text-based information exchange with the in-meeting chat.


Zoom includes a number of features that can facilitate student interactions with the instructor and interactions among the students.
