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May 2026Zoom Fellowship

Zoom Momentum

A live lecture side panel built into Zoom for college classrooms, giving professors real-time visibility into student comprehension and giving students tools to stay oriented and recover anything they missed.

Stack
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Zoom Apps SDK
  • Zoom RTMS
  • AI/LLMs
  • Vercel
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What it does

Zoom Momentum is a live classroom loop that runs inside a Zoom meeting. It gives professors real-time signal on whether students are tracking the material and gives students tools to stay anchored, recover from drift, and review confusion privately after class.

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How it works

  • Professor's Pulse: AI-generated comprehension checks the host launches mid-lecture, with editable polls and live results in seconds
  • Warm-Up Arena: a timed review game with a live leaderboard to energize the room before lecture
  • Live Anchor: reads the live Zoom transcript via RTMS to mark topic changes and surface new terminology, with timeline, glossary, and current-topic views
  • Recovery Agent: students privately bookmark confusing moments during class; afterward those bookmarks become a recovery pack with explanation, practice, and follow-up reading
  • Three flows: host launches check-ins and games, student follows topics and bookmarks, after-class turns confusion points into recovery material
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Key decisions

  • Built to live inside the Zoom meeting, not next to it, so the loop stays uninterrupted instead of pushing students into a separate LMS tab
  • Targeted the gaps current classroom tools don't cover: mid-lecture drift, terminology overload, and silent confusion
  • Used Zoom RTMS for transcript access so Live Anchor and Recovery Agent are grounded in what was actually said
  • Selected for Zoom's innovation fellowship through ASU Next Lab, with a public fellowship hub linking the cohort's projects