To check-in or reflect using visuals quickly at the beginning (warm-up) or end (reflection) of class.

• Use the tool that’s most familiar to you and your students for adding the ‘how do you feel’ visual. Zoom chat is enough for emojis if you are already on Zoom. Slack makes it easy to use emojis or GIFs. Google slides are useful for adding still images and creating memes manually. Use whatever will take less time for students, so they can focus on expressing their emotions rather than technically posting the visual.
• Remind students to use alt-text for images.
• Some polling tools such as Mentimeter (paid version) may already have question types where people can vote by emojis, so you could display some emojis for students to choose from. Within Zoom, you could display some emojis or images and students could use the Zoom annotation feature (or use icons in Google slides) to indicate which one represents how they feel.
• This activity can be done asynchronously if you want students to finish reading or watching something and express how they feel about it in an asynchronous space like Slack or Google doc.