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person can shut off their video, but apparently she

didn't think to do that.
In Zoom, a teacher can have breakout rooms

for the students to go into. There the students can
discuss the assigned topic. After a given amount of

time, the teacher can close the rooms, bringing

everyone back together to go over what they
discussed. I will often do this, then join each room

briefly to see how it was going. When the students
or the teacher go into a breakout room, their

microphones automatically unmute. In joining one
room just after opening them, one girl turned to a

roommate and said, "I can't go with you right now.
I have to work with these dumb people in this

stupid class." After she turned back to her
computer, another girl said, "So, us dumb people

are ready to start the discussion, are you?"

One person was munching chips and slurping
pop in one class, apparently unaware her mic was

on. A few people asked her to mute her mic, but
she couldn't hear them. Luckily, I was able to do it

reasonably fast.
I have had students fall asleep and snore,

probably with their hand on the space bar so they
pressed down on it as they fell asleep. The problem

was I could mute them, but the space bar

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