Courtesy of Michael Skinner
Thanks again for keeping OTOB and our teachers in business during the pandemic. To make online lessons the best possible experience there are a few things to set up at home before your lesson. Ideally, the student should be using a laptop with headphones that go over their ears. If you don’t have that, a tablet of some sort will work too (please don’t use a phone). Note: if you’re using a tablet you will need a speaker to play the music out of. Please take a few minutes to adjust your audio setting to make the best possible audio for online lessons:
Below are instructions for both devices with screenshots.
Laptop setup (screenshots below)
- Go to the home screen on your zoom app. Find the setting button on the right and click it.
- In setting click the audio button on the left.
- Once you are in the audio uncheck the automatically adjust volume box
- Now click the (advanced) button on the bottom right
- check off the box that says show in meeting option to “Enable Original Sound” from the microphone. Lastly, disable (suppress persistent Background noise) and (suppress intermittent Background noise)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Laptop-1-1024x709.png)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Laptop-2-1024x836.png)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Laptop-3-1024x842.png)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Laptop-4-1024x842.png)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Laptop-5-1024x837.png)
Tablet setup (screenshots below)
- Click the (settings) tab in the bottom right corner
- Click (meetings)
- Scroll down until you see (use original sound) enable original sound
- When you’re in the lesson click the (more) tab on the bottom right corner
- Click the (Enable Original sound)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Tablet-1_2-473x1024.jpg)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Tablet-3-473x1024.jpg)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Tablet-4-473x1024.jpg)
![](https://ontheoffbeat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Tablet-5-473x1024.jpg)