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Communicating privately with a student while on Google Meet

Unfortunately, you can not communicate privately through Meet until the Breakout Room feature is available.
But you could connect via Hangouts (Basically, Hangouts is a way for you to communicate with each other privately, similar to texting, but on a computer and through the school). Always add the classroom teacher to the Hangout.

Follow these steps:

-Open your email

-On the left side, there is a 'quotation' icon; hover over it with your cursor open Hangouts

-Click on the + next to your name and select "New Group"

-type in student email/the teacher's email to make a new group with them and click the green check mark

Then:

-Have student (and the teacher at some point) open their email. There should be an invite from you in the Hangouts section on the left side of the screen.
Google Meet & Screenscastify Quick Tutorial
Archiving Classroom and Creating a 'Sample User' account

1. On the page where you see all of your classes, you can "Archive" your classes from last year.
For your new classes, put the school year “20-21” in the “Section” name. It will help when you want to copy assignments from last year.
2. You can “Invite” students in the “People” tab of a Google Classroom using their school Google account.
All students Pre-K through 8th grade should now have Google Accounts.
3. There is a sample student account for each teacher, which you can invite to the class.
The format for this is yourusername.student@htesd.org (for password see Mr. Tucker/Mrs. Roloson).
For example, Mr. Tucker would be tuckera.student@htesd.org.
You can use this to see what your classroom looks like from the student perspective.

4. In the "People" menu of Google Chrome, you can add users to Chrome, such as your sample student account, and then quickly switch back and forth between accounts.
Google Resources (Classroom, Meet, Slides, Docs, Forms & more)
Ms. Piazza has compiled a lot of information and tutorials on her website >> HTESD Media Center
- How to effectively organize your Classroom
- How to use Google Meet
- How to split screen in Google Meet or prevent participants from rejoining
- Creating digital assignments using Slides
- and much more.
Logging into a Meet from Classroom on an iPad
Google Slide template automatically opens as 8.5 X 11

Jen Wendt created a template for Google Slides that will automatically open as an 8.5 x 11 document so it is sized correctly. Here are the steps to access it.

Go to Google Drive and click New, and then hover over the arrow next to Google Slides. It will bring up a menu.

Click on From a Template

It will open a new tab, and most likely take you to the preset templates that Google has. Click on Harmony Township School.

Here is the premade template that is now document sized. It will create a new document for you that is already at that size. Your new slide will not be shared with everyone, it is just the template that is shared with everyone. Make sure to rename it as the worksheet you are making or it will be named 8.5x11 template in your drive.
Article Aug 12, 2020: Google launches The Anywhere School with over 50 new features

Using NIMBUS to record your lessons

How to Prepare and Send a Video Lesson to your Students at home.

Science Resources

Miscellaneous

Getting help with or have suggestions for Education Technology tools, Google Classroom, and Virtual Learning
eSpark - Create classes and Add students.
Screencastify - unlimited-length screencasts
Scanning documents as Pictures via the copy machine

Here is how to scan documents via the copy machine as a picture so they can easily be transferred into editable slides.

Step 1: Log in, press menu

Step 2: Click Scan

Step 3: Click "Me" as the destination, which will send to your email.

Step 4: Click on the button that says Compact PDF at the bottom.

Step 5: Change PDF to JPEG on the menu that comes up.

Step 6: Once your screen looks like this, you are all set.

Most importantly, once you do a scan, it will RESET back to PDF, so you will have to do this for every scan you make.