Zoom teaching bingo

[aside]

I had a student with a bathroom emergency during a test, of which I was not aware.  Noticing he turned his camera off, I told him to turn it back on.  Unfortunately, he complied.

[Langue_doc]

Oops!

[Danny]

On average about 2 of my 120 students use their cameras, so I'm mostly teaching to the black square crowd.  But during quizzes/tests they have to turn them on, and I've seen:

Woman turning her camera on while in bed and then quickly turning it off; it lasted just a moment but I believe she was in her underwear.  Thankfully the quiz sessions aren't recorded.
A guy who takes a deep vape every 30 seconds before blowing the smoke into his computer.
People zooming from their phones so all I can see is the ceiling.
People asleep.
People who unmute themselves and have very loud music playing.
People very obviously doing work for other classes.

[Aster]

Judging from my first round of major exam scores, I am reasonably confident that too many ZOOM students are not paying sufficient attention to their lesson content.

[RatGuy]

Judging from my first round of major exam scores, I am reasonably confident that too many ZOOM students are not paying sufficient attention to their lesson content.

and just wait until the inevitable "I was in all the classes, so why is my grade so low? You must have made a mistake" emails.

[Aster]

Judging from my first round of major exam scores, I am reasonably confident that too many ZOOM students are not paying sufficient attention to their lesson content.

and just wait until the inevitable "I was in all the classes, so why is my grade so low? You must have made a mistake" emails.

I had one class yesterday where not a single student showed up. ZERO. I stayed online for 15 minutes staring at myself.

[EdnaMode]

I've had a couple "Hey, Daddy! Whatcha doin'?" and "Can you come play with me?" questions with "Shhhh! Daddy's in class right now!" replies from the parent. Also, during the Q&A at the end of lecture had a couple small humans want to "say hi to the teacher," and that was sweet. I have a good percentage of adult students who are doing school for themselves and home school for the kids at the same time. I don't envy them that situation.

[AmLitHist]

I had one class yesterday where not a single student showed up. ZERO. I stayed online for 15 minutes staring at myself.

I'm waiting for this to happen to me. It will at some point, I'm sure.

[sinenomine]

A friend of mine who teaches middle school just told me she had a student fall out if bed while on Zoom.

[the_geneticist]

I've had students click the Zoom link to my office hours on random days/times trying to find their labs.  I guess it's the Zoom equivalent of having trouble finding the classroom.

[Aster]

I've had students click the Zoom link to my office hours on random days/times trying to find their labs.  I guess it's the Zoom equivalent of having trouble finding the classroom.

I had this happen a lot during the first two weeks of the term. It's pretty much gone quiet now.

[xerprofrn]

Cat made an appearance.
Dog made an appearance.

I actually like that.  Too many cat butts to count.

[xerprofrn]

I've had a couple "Hey, Daddy! Whatcha doin'?" and "Can you come play with me?" questions with "Shhhh! Daddy's in class right now!" replies from the parent. Also, during the Q&A at the end of lecture had a couple small humans want to "say hi to the teacher," and that was sweet. I have a good percentage of adult students who are doing school for themselves and home school for the kids at the same time. I don't envy them that situation.

This makes my heart melt.  It's a tough situation for students who are parents of small children.  I'm sure the kids LOVE their parents being home all the time, but extra stressful for the parents trying to engage.

[mamselle]

Cat made an appearance.
Dog made an appearance.

I actually like that.  Too many cat butts to count.

One of my students has two kitties, brothers, who love to perch on the sofa pillows under the windowsill behind her and watch the bird TV in the back yard.

If she's doing well with her scales, I sneak a peak at them, grooming each other....they're in that cute, lanky adolescent-stretchy, rubber-bandy cat phase.

In the folk dance I attend on Tuesday nights, there's are two dogs and a cat (in three different households) that like to either walk through the procedings (the dogs) or be carried around in the last slow dance (the cat--we do <<Les Noces>>) at the end.

Oh, maybe this is too much about cats. I should go back over to the cat thread.....

M.

[ergative]

I love seeing the pets, but I don't like drawing attention to individual students, so I usually make a general comment about how we never don't want to see pets on Zoom.

Yesterday I had a mostly black square crowd, but one of the squares used a 'thumbs up' reaction in response to a question and I felt oddly cheered by the sign of engagement. In retrospect that's rather pathetic.