restart your computer, open the Zoom desktop client (rather than the web version), and close all other unnecessary applications,.
Following the process below can mitigate the quality issues to the extent possible (also see this help document): If the video is located on a streaming service to start with, rather than the faculty computer, the quality loss can be even greater, as the video is transmitted to the faculty, prior to the steps mentioned above. When screen-sharing, the video is being transmitted from the faculty’s computer, compressed and redistributed through Zoom’s servers and will have quality loss at each retransmission point in this chain. Watching videos together live using Zoom can present some technical challenges, because bandwidth and the technical capabilities of the faculty (and student) computers can be a constraint when trying to screen-share a video in Zoom without choppiness. The videos in question have ranged from those in library online streaming reserves or in library video databases, to videos on YouTube, to videos on Netflix or other streaming services, to clips from physical DVDs. Several faculty have asked us how they can show videos live, in real-time, in their online class being hosted in Zoom, in order to have discussion with students about the videos during class.
