Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. They’ll also be able to see the names of the other participants, as well as any emoji reactions.Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
While Zoom’s new focus mode will put the teacher’s video or screen share front-and-center for students, it won’t be the only thing on their screens.įor one, participants will still see their own video, as well as any videos or screen shares that are spotlighted by the host. In the United Arab Emirates, public schools will fully reopen in September with a remote learning option, the country’s Emirates Schools Establishment announced in June. “It is going to the beginning of a new era in education, where blended education is the new norm.” In November, Saudi’s Minister of Education Hamad al-Sheikh, speaking at a media briefing on the last day of the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Riyadh said blended education – a hybrid of online and physical learning – had become the new norm because of COVID-19. This feature comes as the new school year approaches, and as the threat of COVID-19 lingers meaning many classrooms around the world may continue some form of remote learning. It provides some of the control found in Webinar mode, without the complexity and lack of flexibility that comes with it - for instance, a teacher could turn on Focus mode while presenting, and then turn it off when it’s time for a class discussion.Īnd, while hosting a Webinar costs money, Focus mode appears to be available to free accounts. The host will still have access to all participants’ webcams, but other people will not be distracted by the live videos of their peers.
Once the host enables Focus mode, the other participants will no longer be able to see each other on the call. The company first revealed the feature in a blog post on The Verge. Zoom’s Focus mode, which can be used by anyone but is designed for teachers to help keep students’ attention during remote learning sessions.
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