Use remote learning procedures (for faculty)

This article is...

	An overview of procedures for working remotely during extended school closure.
	Intended for Employees and Students
	Categorized under Classroom Technology and Systems
	Maintained by Peter Saunders
	in need of review.

Procedures for employees to continue our educational mission and collaborate during periods of extended closure.

Google Hangouts Meet

• Google Hangouts Meet is a video-conferencing platform built into Google’s G-Suite for Education platform. “Meet” allows users to schedule and participate in video-conferences with up to 50 people simultaneously, and includes both desktop sharing, and a built-in “chat” client.

1. Meeting Links - in RCS Calendar Events

A Google Hangouts Meet link has been added to every second semester class event in your Google Calendar. You no longer need to add it. In fact, ANY event you make in Google Calendar will have a Google Meet link auto-created. If you do not want a Meet link on events you create, please remove them on a case-by-case basis.

1. 1. Attending a “Meet”

Click on a Google Calendar event that has conferencing, and then click on the conference link that reads “Join Hangouts Meet”. That will open up a new browser window that takes you to the video-conference.

• Note: The first time you join a Google Meet, you will be prompted to allow access to your Camera and Microphone.

1. 1. In-Conference Chat

Google Meet has an built-in chat function available to anyone who is part of the conference session. Participants need only click the square “chat bubble” icon on the top, right-hand corner of the screen, and a chat drawer opens on the right-hand side; they can then type comments or questions into the chat which are then visible to everyone else in the conference.

This chat function is particularly useful for fielding questions during an online class session, where it can serve as a virtual way for a student to raise their hand. If a teacher simply keeps the chat window open during the video-conference, a student can type a question into the chat which the teacher can answer at an opportune moment.

1. 1. Screen-sharing

Any participant in a Google Meet can share their screen with the rest of the group. Note: You will want to open whatever resource you would like to share with the group (a Google Slides presentation, for example) before starting screen-sharing.

To share your screen while in a Meet video-conference, move your cursor (arrow) to the bottom of the screen until the bottom “drawer” appears, then click on the “Present Now” button. You will then be presented with a menu asking you whether you would like to present the “Entire Screen” or just a “Window”. Make a selection (Window or Entire Screen), and then click on the window (or full screen) that you would like to share.

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