Tips to Make Your Virtual Classroom More Interactive

Keeping all your learners connected and attentive in a virtual classroom is a task. During virtual classroom sessions, learners can access mobiles and get distracted easily. Corporate tutors and teachers in educational institutions have faced this kind of challenge since the pandemic broke out.

However, as times progress, one needs to cope with technology and try to find ways to make the best use of it. Adaptability is the key when it comes to getting familiar with the technology. Thus, in this article, we will discuss a few ways through which you can keep virtual sessions more engaging and interactive.

1)Use the right platform:

With various tech tools at your disposal, you can make the session interactive. Whether you use virtual games, whiteboards, pointers, or break rooms, you have many tools with which you can add variety to your lessons. For instance, web conferencing platforms like Adobe Connect is a tool that has interactive features like chats, polls, desk-to-desk calls, and much more. Before you start using a tool, ensure you know how to make the best use of it and if possible, arrange an induction session where your learners can also get familiar with the tool.

2)Get your background and everything sorted:

As a tutor, you need to ensure you look presentable and have a sorted background. Any kind of movement in the background can make things worse as it can distract your learners. So, the best thing to do is use a constant and artificial background that you get online. Also, ensure your internet connection is stable so that there are no technical issues.

3)Gamify learning:

Learn to grasp the concepts more easily when you provide them with interactive learning opportunities. Gamified learning engages the learners and also improves knowledge retention. Interactive elements like gamification like the points, rewards, badges and leaderboards keep the learners engaged and make learning fun. It creates a healthy competition among the learners on who comes first on the leaderboard or gains more points as they finish more assignments. On a whole, gamification incentivizes the whole learning process with its interactive features.

4)Create a buddy system:

When you create a buddy system, your learners can be accountable to each other, discuss their doubts and come up with solutions for problems together. Collaborative learning is a great way to boost team culture as well. Build a peer review system where every learner reviews and tracks the progress of the other learner. 

5)Make use of communication tools:

In virtual learning, communication is the key. You can make use of social networking tools like Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, etc to form groups where you add all your learners so that they can discuss their doubts and get cleared. To keep it more formal, you can make use of tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams. The major benefit of this is that, even when the tutor is not available, the learners get their questions resolved from their peers and help each other out.

6)Try to keep it interactive consciously:

If you show a text-heavy presentation, your learners might get distracted. So, make sure you talk more rather than show a lot of stuff through presentations. Planning activities where your learners can interact with you on the chatbox, send in their queries, and ask them more questions during the lecture so that they stay attentive throughout.

Conclusion:

To wrap up, getting familiar with virtual training takes time. But as you go along, it gets easy and more flexible than conventional classroom training as everyone can attend the session from the comfort of their homes. Try out different ways to keep it interactive and see what works for you.