Question

• How can schools better utilize tools like Zoom as an alternative to face-to-face classroom settings? What the benefits of using tools like Zoom vs. in-person class rooms and drawbacks.
• What advantages do sites like Dropbox and Google Drive have over e-mail as a way of sharing and collaborating on creating documents? What has been your experience with these tools?

Answer 1

Answer - The schools can use the apps such as Zoom to have the online class and interacting with the students during the time when it is not possible to have the face to face interaction. These sorts of apps are more useful when there are some emergency situations such as the spread of the pandemic. This app will also be helpful to the school to conduct online seminars, discussion, and guest lectures

Answer = Benefits of apps like Zoom=

It is possible to conduct live video chat and to include many users

It is possible to share the screen during the call

One can analyze the meeting analytics

It facilitates the online discussion with many individuals

Disadvantages=

If there are many users one has to pay for having better service

There can be an issue of connectivity and poor video and audio quality

Some apps may not provide the chat and video content simultaneously

Answer 3= Benefits=

It can ensure the proper back up of the important files and documents

Files can be shared with others while maintaining the ownership

the larger size of the files can be shared with others

These apps such as Google Drive have their own substitute for MS office platform

It is possible to edit the shared document

Yes, I have worked on Google Drive and I feel that it is a very good productivity enhancement tool and will be quite helpful in improving sharing of documents securely