To increase behavioural engagement in the synchronous video setting, teachers may look to allow students to increase their privacy by changing the background of their video feed. There are many factors that would influence why students would not want to show their rooms or homes, and it is not important why this would be the case. What is important is that a virtual background may make it easier for students to share their video, if there is nothing in the background that may reveal something private. Teachers and students may both want some way to keep others from seeing what is in the background of the camera view. A simple way to do this is to add a virtual background. The following videos demonstrate how that can work using Zoom and Google Meet.

Zoom backgrounds

Google Meet backgrounds