Bongo: Virtual Classroom and Video Assignments

Bongo couples a Virtual Classroom component with three comprehensive Video Assignment workflows, and allows learners to use virtually any device to complete assignments and join live meetings.

Bongo Basics

• Visit the Bongo page for Instructors in the IST Knowledge Base.
• A maximum of 150 students can be invited to a virtual meeting and only 7 webcams can be active.
• Consider disabling participant webcams for your virtual classroom.
• Instructors can pre-record a lecture using their webcam, screen, or both.
• Breakout rooms are possible for small groups within the larger class. 

Please review the Privacy in Recordings page, which includes a downloadable notification template to post in your course.

Tips for Bongo Virtual Classrooms

• Troubleshooting
• Recommended bandwidth
• Network ports and Firewall settings 
• Browser compatibility - Bongo works best with Chrome or EDGE

Video Assignments

There are four assignment options.

1. Individual projects

• Adding a Video assignment to Content

Video tutorial for setting up an individual assignment.

• Peer review settings

Video tutorial on peer review settings.

• Bongo: schedule a virtual classroom 

Video tutorial for sheduling a virtual classroom.

2. Group Project Overview

• Setup Group Project Assignments Groups can also schedule meetings with each other online (using virtual classroom)

3. Question and answer assignments
4. Interactive video assignments