Zoom is a video communications software that encourages collaboration through remote video conferencing, chat, polling, annotation and more! This provides educators with the opportunity to bring the world into face-to-face classroom conversations. It enables students to work and learn together using digital whiteboarding, breakout rooms and group chats.
License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (2020)
2024 Update: see current Zoom Terms of Service and educational pricing; know that Zoom experienced widespread adoption during the COVID-19 emergency online teaching response, and expanded its features and affordances; know that as of 2023 Zoom embedded an AI 'companion' which can offer translation, feedback, and summaries of meetings, among other possibilities, but this raises privacy concerns regarding meeting data.