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Use the synchronous video conferencing to:

• Spend the time that was originally allocated to the face to face sessions bringing your ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ together for a series of tasks to be completed collaboratively, in real time.  It is preferable to bring the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in and out of your whole group deliveries and discussions regularly, moving them between video calls initiated by you, and by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in smaller groups - i.e. use a blend of synchronous approaches – video and simultaneous group work.
• Bring all the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ together and explain key issues / ideas that everybody needs to hear. For example, if you’re planning to deliver an online session where you need all of your ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to move between activities, getting them together via video conference chat/meeting is a good way of explaining the plan for the day and your expectations.
• Explain the session step by step and offer an opportunity to ask questions. This complements the overview of the schedule emailed in advance.
• Discuss outcomes of the group activities ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ were working on. This is the equivalent to you allocating time for your ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to work on/discuss something in small groups in a tutorial and then facilitating a plenary to gather ideas / issues that stemmed from group discussions. Here you could ask a spokesperson from each group to feed back on their ideas / progress and invite them to use the 'share screen' function to show any output they developed together, if approriate. 
• Provide feedback on group activities ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ were working on.
• Offer a question-answer session. For example, if you provided recorded mini-lecture videos and want to give ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ an opportunity to ask questions.  To improve participation you could ask them to email questions in advance.