[H-GEN] Zoom through COVID-19?

[Simone Blomberg]

I went to a UQ workshop on Zoom yesterday. We (School of Biological 
Sciences) look like we will be using it for some lectures, tutorials and 
pracs. If your partner is only seeing 7 participants at a time, then I 
think Zoom could work well. Your partner may need to limit talking and 
video to one or a few at a time in order to conserve bandwidth so it 
doesn't crash. The UQ limit on the number of participants is 300. I 
can't believe that that many participants would work at all. But 7 
participants, yes. Will it be an obstacle? Only as much as Skype is an 
obstacle. I have the Ubuntu Linux Zoom client and it works fine for me. 
Windows and MacOS versions seem pretty similar, from what I can tell.

Simone.

On 18/3/20 3:52 pm, Greg Black wrote:
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> My wife is slowly coming around to the idea that continuing with
> face-to-face sessions for her counselling practice and her small
> clinical supervision groups and teaching might not be a good plan now.
>
> She can do some of this work by phone or Skype, but they're not useful
> for small groups or for couple counselling sessions.
>
> Zoom has been proposed as a solution. I have no experience with it and
> am hoping to hear from people who are familiar with Zoom. In
> particular, is it likely to be useable by her for small groups (up to
> 7 participants)? Will it be likely to be an obstacle for her
> clients/supervisees/students?
>
> If Zoom is the work of the devil and you know a better solution, I'm
> open to hearing about that too.
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