• Assessment
  While Zoom has a polling tool, it does not have a testing or exam tool. If you want to give your students a graded assessment, you will need to use another tool such as Canvas. And for more full-featured polling consider Poll Everywhere.

• Breakout rooms
  Zoom offers breakout rooms (see above for instructions on how to enable them) and you can either create them and assign students to them live during class, or you can pre-assign participants to breakout rooms before class begins. Unfortunately, there is no way to pre-populate your breakout rooms with content or instructions before class begins. In addition, when your class meeting ends the breakout rooms that you create in Zoom disappear and will not appear in your next class meeting.

• File sharing
  While you can share files using the chat box, Zoom meetings are not really meant to be file repositories. If you want to create a file repository for your course, use Canvas or Box.

• Polling
  If a poll contains multiple questions, your students must answer all of the questions and then click submit before Zoom will record any of the students’ answers. In addition, only single choice or multiple-choice questions are allowed. For more advanced polling features, use Qualtrics or Poll Everywhere.

• Whiteboard
  Zoom has a robust Whiteboarding tool that can be used both synchronously in a zoom meeting or asynchronously through the zoom app or at tufts.zoom.us

      To learn more about the Zoom Whiteboarding tool see: What is the Zoom Whiteboarding Tool?