A new offering from Zoom allows large online video classes to hold breakout sessions in which smaller groups of students can interact with one another . Zoom provides students with videoconferencing technology and wanted to resolve the issue of insufficient interaction among students in large , online classes . Now , online classes with as many as 200 students can form as many as 50 breakout groups , with students able to use video and audio , chat , place notes on whiteboards and share screens . Furthermore , a breakout group can alert a Professor at any time if it needs help and instructors can visit any of the breakouts to ask or answer questions .
A new offering from Zoom allows large online video classes to hold breakout sessions in which smaller groups of students can interact with one another. Zoom provides universities with videoconferencing technology and wanted to resolve the issue of insufficient interaction among students in large, online classes. Now, online classes with as many as 200 students can form as many as 50 breakout groups, with students able to use video and audio, chat, place content on whiteboards and share screens. Furthermore, a breakout group can alert a Professor at any time if it needs help and instructors can visit any of the breakouts to assist or answer questions.