Zoom Guide
This guide will be updated as we figure out the best way to use Zoom for hours and other course activities.
Setup
Follow the instructions here to install Zoom.
If you don’t have a webcam, or don’t want to use a webcam, we ask that you make sure that your Zoom account is set up with some image as your profile picture (otherwise, you’ll show up as a blank screen on Zoom). Any image is fine, though we would prefer to see who you are.
- Login to Zoom through brown.zoom.us, and then head to brown.zoom.us/profile. The image next to your name is the image that Zoom will display when your webcam is off. If you are comfortable showing a picture of yourself, that would be nice on our end, but we understand if you aren’t comfortable doing that.
- If you’re having trouble uploading an image, it may be because it is too large. Here are guides to reduce image file size for Windows and Mac
Lecture Q&A Guide
You can join lecture and conceptual hours through the Zoom call pinned on Piazza. This is a persistent Zoom call, so if you join the call at the scheduled lecture or conceptual hours time, we’ll be there!
TA Hours Guide
From now on, the SignMeUp queue for TA hours will have a title with links to each TA’s Zoom call. When a TA claims you, that is an invitation to join their Zoom call.
Sign up for hours as you normally would through SignMeUp. When a TA claims you, that is an invitation to join their Zoom call.
- TAs may claim you while they are helping another student. In this case, you will be placed in the waiting room of that TA’s Zoom call, and it may be another 15 minutes before you are helped.
- When you are claimed by a TA, please be ready to be helped within 15 minutes. If it is your turn to be helped, and you are not in a waiting room, or not at your computer when the TA adds you to the call, you will be marked missing.
Please be ready when you are close to being called. If we claim you on SignMeUp, and you are either not in the Zoom call, or not responding when we take you out of the waiting room, we will put you back in the waiting room, mark you missing, and move on to the next person.
Cool Zoom Features / Using Zoom for Projects
Zoom has some useful tools that we’ll be using to help you at hours! The most important of these is the share screen feature, which lets us:
- See your code and Pycharm window
- Annotate your screen! With Zoom, we can draw arrows and write text on your screen, which should be helpful if we’re trying to point something out in your code.
- Control your screen (with your permission).
Note that you can also use all of these features! You can create your own Zoom call, invite your project partner to it, and pair program with them with the aid of these share screen features. To annotate or control your partner’s screen during screen-sharing mode, make sure to enable the “Remote control” feature in your Zoom settings.
Zoom Guide
This guide will be updated as we figure out the best way to use Zoom for hours and other course activities.
Setup
Follow the instructions here to install Zoom.
If you don’t have a webcam, or don’t want to use a webcam, we ask that you make sure that your Zoom account is set up with some image as your profile picture (otherwise, you’ll show up as a blank screen on Zoom). Any image is fine, though we would prefer to see who you are.
Lecture Q&A Guide
You can join lecture and conceptual hours through the Zoom call pinned on Piazza. This is a persistent Zoom call, so if you join the call at the scheduled lecture or conceptual hours time, we’ll be there!
TA Hours Guide
From now on, the SignMeUp queue for TA hours will have a title with links to each TA’s Zoom call. When a TA claims you, that is an invitation to join their Zoom call.
Sign up for hours as you normally would through SignMeUp. When a TA claims you, that is an invitation to join their Zoom call.
Please be ready when you are close to being called. If we claim you on SignMeUp, and you are either not in the Zoom call, or not responding when we take you out of the waiting room, we will put you back in the waiting room, mark you missing, and move on to the next person.
Cool Zoom Features / Using Zoom for Projects
Zoom has some useful tools that we’ll be using to help you at hours! The most important of these is the share screen feature, which lets us:
Note that you can also use all of these features! You can create your own Zoom call, invite your project partner to it, and pair program with them with the aid of these share screen features. To annotate or control your partner’s screen during screen-sharing mode, make sure to enable the “Remote control” feature in your Zoom settings.