Use these instructions to synchronously share a one or more video clip clips during a Zoom meeting. This can include segments of DVDs, or other formats of video media (.mp4, .avi, etc.).

Note that sharing video clips during a synchronous class session is a technologically intensive activity and is taxing on the internet connection and the computer processor (for you and your students). If there is an asynchronous way of sharing the same content that will fit in with your pedagogical goals, then please consider doing thatthat may be a more effective option.   

Built-in media players on Macs and PCs sometimes have problems screen sharing videos. When showing video clips, we recommend using the free and open source VLC media player. 
VLC media player is available to download from https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html 
If you do not already have VLC on your computer, download the appropriate version for your computer (PC, Mac, etc) and install it. 

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Steps for Screen Sharing video clips:

1. Before starting your Zoom meeting, you'll want to prepare the Prepare your video clip. 

   1. Open the video file or DVD (preferably with VLC player) and have it ready to play in a separate window.  Cue the video to the start of the section you want to share and pause the video, and leave this window open on your desktop.

2. Launch your Zoom meeting, when ready to share the video, proceed with the next steps

3. To ensure the best possible quality of the video share

   1. Turn off their cameras

   2. Mute their Microphones
   3. Disable Chat (click on the Security icon Image Removed to show the security pop up menu and make sure there is not a tick next to the word Chat.  If there is a tick there, simply click on it with your mouse to remove the tick)

4. ave everyone in the meeting (including yourself):. 

5. Prepare your Zoom session for video sharing. Much like turning off the lights, drawing the blinds, and making sure everyone is quiet before starting a film in a traditional classroom, each participant should

   1. toggle off cameras

   2. mute microphones
   3. and you (the Host) should disable Chat: left-click the Security icon Image Added and, under Allow participants to:, deselect the word Chat. 
6. Click on the green Share Screen icon  in the meeting control toolbar.  This will display a window showing all the different windows and screens that you can share.  It will look something like this:
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7. Select the window that you want to share. The window you select will be surrounded by a highlighted in blue frame.  In this example, the window selected also has the orange and white cone icon of the VLC media player.
8. It is essential that you tick both boxes on Select both boxes (Share computer sound and Optimize Screen Sharing for Video Clip) at the bottom of this screen
   • Share computer sound - this ensures that the audio that accompanies your video clip is also shared. If there is no audio that accompanies the video clip, then it is ok to leave this unticked.
   • Optimize Screen Sharing for Video Clip - this ensures that the shared video is of the best possible quality.  Do not leave this unticked when sharing video clips.  
9. Click on the blue Share button, and your screen share will begin. The screen being shared should be surrounded by a green frame .  Do not (but don't worry if you do not see this frame).Click on the play button in
10. Play the video clip window if (you paused the video at your start point in step 1). When playing your clip, displaying it full screen may make it more viewable for your audience.The Share screen control bar should display during your screen share, it looks like this:Image Removed  Usually, full screen mode can toggled on and off by clicking on an icon that looks something like one of these:  Image Added or Image Added
11. You should be able to see the screen sharing control bar (If you don't see the screen share menu below, try hovering your mouse over the green bar that says "You are screen sharing".  This should make the control bar visible):
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12. Note that you can Stop Share or Pause Share with this tool bar. If you have a different another video or file that you want to share, and it is already open on your desktop, you can click on New Share  and select a different window to share, without stopping or pausing!  This allows you to switch from one screen share to the next, withoug without having to pause or lose time during your session to find the file location.
13. When finished sharing, simply click on Stop Share and you will be back in the resume your Zoom meeting.  Remember to ask people to umute unmute and turn toggle their cameras back on, if you want to continue the meeting. You can also reenable chat, through the Security tool 

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