Distance Learning

Zoom Rolls Out New Features Requested By Educators

• By Kristal Kuykendall
• 04/11/22

Zoom has begun rolling out several new features for education users of its Chat and Meetings functions, fulfilling the most popular requests from teachers and administrators on its platform, the company announced today.

New features available now are virtual background and blur for Chromebook users; the ability to share content with audio in Breakout Rooms; and an LTI Pro integration in Breakout Rooms enabling educators to add students to a Breakout Room directly from their rosters and to assign Breakout Rooms in advance.

Other new features include:

• The ability to send audio and video messages into Zoom Chat (available now)
• The ability to rename participants in the Waiting Room (available now)
• Polling content will soon be hosted in a central folder associated with an account, instead of associated with a particular meeting, enable instructors to re-use polls or access completed polls later for grading purposes, Zoom said.

Learn more about Zoom’s new education features on its blog.