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All following Q&A sessions only via Zoom.
Written on 11.05.2020 08:49 by Lars Prehn
Dear Students,
Since Zoom had no problem handling the load of all courses that started last week, we will solely rely on it for future sessions and shut down our parallel Youtube stream. We provided the Youtube stream initially as a back-up for the Zoom session; the added complexity for using both platforms, unfortunately, reduced our audio and video quality noticeably. We apologize for the inconvenience during the last Q&A session.
Starting with today's Q&A session at 2 p.m. CEST, we only rely on Zoom. This enables us to use all of Zoom's features, including polls and raising hands; therefore, we ask you to change the way you interact with us during the session. You still join the session muted and with your video disabled. If you want to verbally ask a question, please use the raise-hand feature (you can find it at the bottom of the participant's box). Afterward, The lecturer will unmute you. Besides raising your hand, you are still able to write questions to the chat.
Since we saw significant demand for videos of the Q&A sessions, we will start to record them. We will ensure to anonymize chats in the recordings—if you include a colon in your username, we _can not_ guarantee that your entire name will be properly anonymized due to the format in which we receive the chat-backlog from Zoom. Furthermore, we will ensure that only users associated with the Universität des Saarlandes have access to the video recordings.
By using the 'raise-hand' feature, you agree that your voice and video feed may be included in the uploaded Q&A session recording.