Ideas for Remote Student Presentations

It will be most helpful—for both you and your students—if you adapt your expectations for student work. Consider allowing students to choose a way that’s doable for them to formally express what they’ve learned.

Offer a few different options (or let them propose their own):

  1. Students can use the free version of Screencast-O-Matic where they can make a recording of their computer screen as they show and narrate their PowerPoint slides. The resulting video can then be uploaded to UVM’s streaming server and shared with the class.
  2. Some students may already have some website skills and would like to create a (UVM-supported) WordPress website https://blog.uvm.edu to present their projects.
  3. There are a couple of options to holding “live” meetings (but please see the caveats, below):
    • Microsoft Teams is a UVM-supported software that allows for synchronous meetings. Synchronous means that participants are having a live (online simultaneously) conversation. (Whereas, asynchronous means that people can post work that others can view and respond to later.) Instructions for downloading and getting started are available on the UVM Knowledge Base Teams page, and they offer additional guidance for joining a scheduled meeting.
    • Zoom is a free application with similar video conferencing functionality. Some faculty are choosing to use a different videoconferencing platform (Zoom has come up quite a bit) because they are more familiar with it. Zoom currently has a meeting time limit of 40 minutes.
    • Caveats for live meetings

      Due to students’ variable time zones and internet bandwidth, synchronous sessions may be difficult for some to attend. So, if you do need to host live sessions, we recommend that you use the Teams record meeting functionality so you can share the resulting video with students who can’t participate during the live session. You may also need to provide some other options for students who can’t come.