Friday Live Discussion Groups with 90 Students on Zoom: Organized Chaos?

Abstract

In an attempt to maintain social connection with a large lecture-style class, this teaching case describes how we used the Zoom Break-out Room function to run live discussion groups during fall 2020. Using a combination of Google Docs, Canvas, and Zoom one instructor and one TA describe how they managed to run discussions on contemporary tourism issues to compliment asynchronous online lectures. Advice for replicating this assignment and for transferring it back to the traditional classroom is given.