Create a Google Slide with 4 different breakout room options. Show it to students & ask them to put their room number preference in the Zoom chat. You can manually assign students to their chosen room:

Room 1 = Teacher Help Room
Room 2 = Chatty Group Room
Room 3 = Quiet Group Room
Room 4 = Solo Room

In Zoom, if you hover over a student name in the 'participants' list, you can rename them. After a quiz starter, you could crown the winning student with a subject specific title like 'The Graphic Guru' or 'Lord of the Code' for the duration of the lesson.... Students love having a fun new title that everyone has to refer to them by!

Drop a link to these traffic light backgrounds into your Google Classroom Stream & ask students to download them. During an MYP activity ask them to switch their virtual background to one of the traffic light colours to visually show a self-assessment of their understanding of the task!

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Use the Zoom chat to send messages to individual students. At the start of the lesson, you can assign one student a 'secret mission'. This is extremely useful for IN students who struggle to focus. Here are some mission examples:

1. At the end of the lesson, I'd like you to give 'Student X' feedback about their classwork.

2. Today's lesson keyword is 'Form' - tally chart how many times it's mentioned during the lesson.

3. Today you'll be team teaching! Whenever anyone in the class uses the hand-up button, use the Zoom chat to support them with their learning.