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Zoom Rolls Out New Features for Education

By Kristal Kuykendall
04/11/22

Zoom has introduced several new features for education users of its Chat and Meetings functions, fulfilling the most popular requests from teachers and administrators on its platform, the company announced today.

New features available now are virtual background and blur for Chromebook users; the ability to share content with audio in Breakout Rooms; and an LTI Pro integration in Breakout Rooms enabling educators to add students to a Breakout Room directly from their rosters and to assign Breakout Rooms in advance.

Other enhancements include:

The ability to s end audio and video messages into Zoom Chat (available now)
The ability to rename participants in the Waiting Room (available now)
Polling content will soon be hosted in a central folder associated with an account, instead of associated with a particular meeting, enable instructors to re-use polls or access completed polls later for grading purposes, Zoom said.

For more information, visit the Zoom blog.

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Kristal Kuykendall is editor, 1105 Media Education Group. She can be reached at [email protected].

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