
Any bigger classes would probably benefit from having the Zoom feed of the “lecture” recorded and then uploaded for consumption. Use: for classes of less than 50 people, it is feasible to run them live through Zoom and engage in discussion with your students. Up to $15 a month if your institution does not have an arrangement with Zoom. Scotch tape and scissors and/or other everyday household materials for jerry-rigging the “document camera stand”Ĭost: approximately $0 if you already own a reasonably modern laptop/desktop/tablet and cellphone.A tall cardboard box or another material to jerry-rig a “document camera stand” out of (at least 2’ tall).Paper or a small whiteboard and something to write with.Potentially, a second web-camera if your main device (laptop or desktop) lacks a “selfie”/user-facing camera.THIS) – we will call this our “document camera” A relatively modern cell-phone (anything made after 2017 should work) OR a web-camera (e.g.If you are not planning to record your instruction, the following works with a big-screen tablet as well. User messages will be disabled on the server, but I will try to keep it up-to-date with more resources related to this topic. If you have any questions, I have set-up a discord server where you can contact me - look for KDMath on top of the user list: My DM's are open on both Discord and LinkedIn, although the former allows faster chats for troubleshooting. IF YOU SUCCESSFULLY USE THIS GUIDE please POST A PICTURE IN THE COMMENTS of what your final set-up looks like - it is extremely encouraging to see the results of other people as more and more of us will have to fiddle with this. Here is a short video that will be useful as a reference, especially for the jerry-rigging parts, as well as a visual guide for the more-visually oriented among us: VIDEO

The guide is geared towards disciplines that make plenty of use of on-board writing in particular just organizing a Zoom meeting and having your students show up is sufficient if there is no huge component of instructor writing live during a class. This can be useful for all classes without labs or other physical hands-on learning.

In this guide, I will explain how to create a zero to low-cost set-up to teach classes remotely using the video conferencing platform Zoom.
