FINAL EXAM LEVEL 5

TASK # 1: WEEK 17 – May 18-22 (10 points total)

READING/ Identify main ideas, details, purpose and audience in written and
LISTENING SLO 1 spoken texts

READING
Identify reasons for a speaker's opinion in written and spoken texts
/LISTENING SLO 2

READING (Asynchronous task)

NAME: _________________________________

Zoom
How does it work?

What are the advantages?

What are the disadvantages?

(6 points for the chart)

Zoom as a tool to communicate

Zoom is super easy to use – just download, click it, set it up, and you are off and running. This is
one of the easiest pieces of video conferencing solution business could ever deploy.

Zoom connects easily across desktops, mobile devices, and room systems to seamlessly bring
together various departments, offices, and remote participants. With an intuitive user-interface,
quickness of joining rooms, and ease of screen sharing, Zoom is undeniably simple for everyone to
use.

The application is free for personal use for small business that sets it apart from the rest of the
conferencing apps that are heavily pricey. Its pricing for business enterprises, on the other hand,
seems bearable and doesn’t seem to burden on users. If you compare your original expenses
covered for business trips, one-to-one meetings, and utilities, it’s easy to spot the difference. You
can get the price chart here for your further information.

Handling 100 participants simultaneously zoom offers an agile environment for business meetings
and webinars. Since your data is backed up at cloud servers, you don’t have to worry much about
low-bandwidth. That said, a maximum of 100 participants can screen-share and conduct a fruitful
conversation from a remote location.

In contrast, in a recently published review, users have reported bad service by the customer
service department. A service representative may take 2 to 3 days to reach you with a suggestive
solution. This limitation is acknowledgeable at times when you have no other options to carry out
your work with rising demand for video conferencing methods. Every sector relies on the Zoom
application and it’s quite acceptable why there is a delay in service.

Early in April of 2020, a report published in the Indian News Media revealed that hackers used the
corona crisis to target remote workers. A group of hackers zoom-bombed hacking user-passwords
and took over the virtual meetings. Hackers then allegedly posted offensive/obscene content to
disrupt the business.

In another incident, Deccan Herald has reported about over 500k Zoom users’ data being sold over
Darkweb. This incident has sparked concerns among National Security Agencies in many countries
posing questions on the user privacy policy and data encryption methods followed to protect user-
data.

WRITING (4 points) (Asynchronous task)

Write a paragraph (7 to 8 sentences) describing your experience using the different online
communication tools during this contingency, how they have helped you communicate remotely
during this lockdown:

GRAMMAR X 1 VOCABULARY X 1 CONTENT X 1 STRUCTURE X 1

Uses mixed tenses correctly to Uses vocabulary words from unit Has clear and coherent ideas by Has a consistent
express his /her ideas. Uses 6 providing a clear description of the paragraph structure
active and passive voice online tools he/she uses. (length: 8-10 sentences)
sentences correctly.