With remote learning taken over many schools and classrooms, most teachers are using tools to virtually connect with their students. With many concerns about security, I always recommend going over digital etiquette and proper use of these virtual sessions with students prior to connecting. Students need to be aware of hacking and what to do if someone hacks your session.
I am happy to announce that the Google for Education and Google Meet teams integrated a new workflow that will allow teachers to create Google Meets within their Google Classrooms. Read more about the update on Google's blog.
First, in order to use Google Meet, it must be enabled for the students and teachers at your organization. Contact your Google administrator for assistance.
Next, educators can generate a unique Google Meet link for each of their classrooms. Go into the setting gear of the classroom and scroll down to the general section, and click on 'Generate a Meet Link'. At this point you can turn on or off to allow students to see the link.
If students are allowed to see the link, it will be visible in the Google Classroom header and there will be a Meet option on the top of the Classwork page.
They can click on either of these two links to join a Google Meet.
However, I would recommend to generate a Google Meet link for the class, but not to make the link visible to the students. Click on the Meet link, then select copy. This will copy the Meet link to the clipboard.
Afterwards, create a new assignment or an announcement, and paste the link into the post. The students are forced to open the post and click on the Google Meet link to attend the virtual session. This way, they don't know the Meet link, and it will prevent them from being distracted.
With this new update, the Meet link is an ad-hoc link meaning it will be refreshed or reset about 1 minute after the meeting is over. However, it is still recommended that teachers be the last one to leave the session and to wait about a minute after every leaves to end it.
Here is a Google Meet YouTube playlist about the Google Meet and Google Classroom integration.
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