Here in the Postgraduate Learning Design media team, we’ve noticed how guest lecturers who’ve been brought into a class via Zoom use the virtual background feature to display their business name or logo.Īnd, beyond the online classroom, you can use these same techniques in your meetings. With so many lessons being recorded and delivered on Zoom, custom backgrounds are a great opportunity to distinguish yourself.

These backgrounds can be uploaded to your account for free, moving your virtual background game beyond the Golden Gate Bridge stock image to, say, the inside of the TARDIS from ‘Doctor Who’.īut – going beyond privacy, humour, and self-expression – virtual backgrounds can also be used to enhance the multimodal presentation capabilities of Zoom. Or perhaps it’s a tool for breaking the ice and engaging with students? Lifting your virtual background gameĭo a quick online search and you’ll see lots of organisations, such as the BBC, have created Zoom-ready backgrounds. Maybe you’ve already used the feature – to hide your messy bedroom office perhaps? Maybe you’ve used a virtual background to humorous effect, or as a means of self-expression. Let’s face it, when you started at UTS you probably didn’t envisage inviting teams of people from work into your home on a daily basis. By now everyone is pretty familiar with the virtual background feature in Zoom.

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