GoGuardian Adds Video Conferencing to Classroom Management
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/09/20
Education
technology company GoGuardian
is adding video conferencing within its K-12 classroom management
program. GoGuardian
Teacher
will enable educators to do one-on-one or group audio and video
calling, with screen sharing and lesson recording capabilities. The
program already allows teachers to view what's happening on student
devices. Now, they'll be able to interact with students virtually
without the use of an additional video conferencing program, such as
Zoom or Google Meets.
New
features in GoGuardian Teacher include:
-
Video
conferencing, enabling the teacher to initiate group video
conferencing with session-level management, including "locking"
students in on viewing only what the teacher is presenting, muting
students or disabling webcams during the session;
-
Administrator-level
control over when webcams can be enabled at the school level;
-
One-on-one
video and audio calling to let the teacher have private sessions
with individual students;
-
Screen
sharing with video and audio, to help the teacher more closely
replicate classroom instructional practices;
-
Lesson
recording, to let the teacher share the session with students who
couldn't attend in real-time; and
-
Student
control over declining video recording permission, which turns off
their audio and video, while still enabling them to listen in during
a teacher-initiated call.
"Schools
are adopting video tools to meet the needs of their students this
upcoming school year, however, many of these tools are not built for
the educational setting," said Tyler Shaddix, chief product
officer, in a press release. "With GoGuardian Teacher video
conferencing, we can continue to provide seamless support to
classrooms, no matter where teachers or students are located."
More
details are available in
a GoGuardian blog article.
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.