video feedback

Feedback

Zoom & Video

Video-based feedback — live or recorded — can personalize the feedback process and strengthen your students’ sense of connection with you and the course.

“Oral feedback (with the instructor’s voice, tone, and even video image) can feel more personalized to students and can improve their sense of connection to the instructor and the group, something especially important for remote students.”

Girons & Swinehart, p. 40

Synchronous feedback for an individual student takes place in a private Zoom meeting with the student. (Tip: Use a randomly generated meeting code, rather than your personal Zoom ID or a recurring class meeting ID, in order to ensure privacy and eliminate the possibility of Zoombombing.)


Whole-group feedback — or asynchronous comments for a particular student — can be given by way of a pre-recorded video. There are numerous ways of creating this, e.g., the YouTube video editor and Flipgrid, but if you’re accustomed to using Zoom, this is a handy way to record a video of yourself. Simply host a meeting with you as the sole participant, record it, and then retrieve the resulting .mp4 video file to post on Canvas.

If you’ve not familiar with making a video recording of a Zoom meeting, here are the basic steps:

Tip: Look at the camera while you speak rather than at your face on the screen. Looking at yourself (or anyone else on the screen, for that matter) draws your eyes away from the camera and creates the impression that you’re not speaking directly to them.

Once you’ve made the settings, host a meeting and follow these procedures:

For more details, see Zoom → Recording.


References & Resources

Boettcher, J. and Conrad, R-M. (2016). Simple rules for feedback in online learning (pp. 239-252). The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Girons, A. and Swinehart, N. (2020). Teaching Languages in Blended Synchronous Learning Classrooms. Georgetown, VA: Georgetown University Press.


Zoom's basic tutorial: [1:35]

How to Record a Meeting in Zoom (Video and Audio): [5.42]