5 Easy-to-Fix “On-Camera” Mistakes College Students Make During Live Zoom Classes
Amid the pandemic, there’s been a massive shift to “live” online college classes.
Yeah, you know what I’m talking about, Zoom calls.
This fall, the vast majority of college students in the United States are taking at least some, if not all, of their classes via Zoom. And while you’d be hard-pressed to find many students ready to complain about the newfound luxury of joining live online class lectures from literally anywhere and everywhere, except the classroom, students are still trying to get used to all of it.
There are two main types of live Zoom class formats right now, those in which professors require you to be “on camera” during the lecture and those that don’t.
For this article, I’m going to talk about the classes in which professors require their students to be on camera. While many college professors don’t require their students to be live and in color online, there are plenty that do.
I’m one of them. Yeah, that’s just how I roll. Sorry, students.
In the midst of teaching my first live Zoom classes this semester, freshman year experience seminar courses, I can speak to several common “on camera” mistakes students are making as they work to get used to taking online…
