School From Home Session 17 Friday April 17th Today's Topic: Creating a Google Hangout for your Class and How to get into a meeting

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Teach Simplified blog:
The first lesson of this posting is for people that want to learn how to create a video meeting for others to join.  Best suited for:  teachers, adults, administrators, etc.
The second lesson of the posting is more for students, parents or anyone just trying to get the hang of all of this.

Lesson 1 Making a video meeting.
This is something I will be asking my students to do at some point since they will have access to all of this stuff.  I want them to get really darn good at using the tools that they will master in their professional lives.

Since you are already able to get into your email from a previous blog lesson and know where the "waffle" is.  Let's start with the 9-dot waffle thing known as Google Suite or G-Suite where the apps are at.  You want to select the app called "Calendar".

Google Calendar App

It may not be in the same place as where mine is on your screen but it is usually in the first few apps.

Click on it and of course a calendar will pop up.

Click on the picture above for a better look at the colorful arrows.

Step 1 Pick the day and the time you want to start and end the meeting.

Step 2 Give your meeting a name

Step 3 Add in all of the emails you want to enter into your video meeting.  Put a , and space between each email.
OR
I like to copy all of the emails from somewhere and paste them right in.  This is SOOOOOO much faster and easier than typing and finding 30 emails.

Step 4 The key component: Add location or conferencing.  Um... yes please!
When you add conferencing you are creating a place for people to join you in the video meeting.  
It will give you two things to click, a button for add location which I skip for making a video meeting.
When you click the add conferencing button, it will pop up something that says Join Hangouts Meet in blue letters.
Below that it now gives you the link that you will send to everyone and you will also click on that link yourself when it is time to start the meeting.
It will also say how many people can join the meeting.

All you have left to do is to save your meeting.
It will save into your calendar and your screen will go back to the calendar.  So when you are ready to join your own meeting you made.

You just have to remember to go to Google Calendar, click on the spot you created in the spot I circled in purple and click that link to jump in.

Click the link and...

You're in!
Click join now and start the show!

Lesson 2 Joining a meeting
This is the easier part.  You join in easiest by just clicking on a link someone sent you somehow.  Joining a meeting is best by joining through email.

Go to the email that was sent to you and simply click the link they invited you to join on.

Congratulations you are in and ready to go!


If you made it to this point you will figure out how to tinker around with this app when you get there.
You got this far, you can take it from here!
Enjoy your meeting!

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