November 16, 2015
It's been almost iii years since the publication of our Google Hangouts guide for teachers. Since then, many interesting features induce got been added to Hangouts the end of which is the introduction of a novel interface. In today's post, nosotros are revisiting Hangouts features alongside a focus on how to practise video Hangouts. As a teacher, yous tin give the sack utilisation video Hangouts alongside students to gibe online discussions, interact in addition to part learning resources. You tin give the sack also utilisation it for a diversity of professional person evolution purposes alongside peers in addition to educators from all unopen to the globe. By the terminate of this guide, yous volition know how to :
- Start a video Hangouts
- Invite people to your Hangouts via both emails in addition to telephone calls
- Share the content of your hide alongside others inwards a video Hangouts
- Share in addition to scout YouTube videos alongside your video telephone telephone participants
- Add apps to elevate your Hangouts performance
- Share links in addition to files using text chat.
1- Hangouts Plugin For those of yous using accounts that practise non terminate inwards @gmail.com, yous volition demand to install this gratis
Hangouts Plugin. The installation takes exclusively a few seconds in addition to volition enable yous to induce got phonation in addition to video conversations from your computer.
2- Start a Hangouts video call
Before yous outset your video telephone telephone brand certain yous camera, microphone in addition to speakers are connected in addition to working properly. Open Hangouts inwards your browser in addition to click on the video telephone telephone icon in addition to let Hangouts to access your video in addition to microphone.
3- Invite people to your video call Hangouts let yous to invite upwards to ix people to your video calls. To practise so, click on the Invite icon at the transcend of the video telephone telephone window in addition to type inwards your invitees electronic mail addresses or search for them yesteryear name. You tin give the sack also re-create the generated link of your video telephone telephone in addition to part it alongside others via email.
4- Invite telephone participants to your Hangout You tin give the sack invite people to your Hangouts using their mobile or landline numbers in addition to they volition hold upwards able to participate without the demand for having a camera. To practise so, inwards the same window where yous are asked to type inwards electronic mail addresses(see 3 above), click on the dialpad icon in addition to come inwards your invitee’s telephone set out in addition to click on ‘call’. Learn to a greater extent than close Phone calls inwards Hangouts from
this page.
5- Screensharing on Google Hangouts This characteristic allows yous to part your reckoner hide inwards your video call. This is peculiarly useful for doing tutorials in addition to instructional videos. To outset screensharing click on the Screenshare icon on the left-hand side of your video telephone telephone window. Then select the hide yous desire to part in addition to click ’Share’.
6- YouTube inwards Hangouts You tin give the sack part in addition to scout YouTube videos alongside others inwards your video Hangouts using the YouTube app. You tin give the sack access the YouTube app on the left-hand side of your video telephone telephone window. If the app is non listed yous volition induce got to add together it using steps inwards tip seven below.
Once yous access YouTube app, yous tin give the sack in addition to hence search for videos yous desire to scout alongside your invitees yesteryear clicking on the ‘Add videos to playlist’ button. And piece they tin give the sack meet the same video in addition to playlist yous are playing, they won’t hold upwards able to meet your search queries in addition to results.
7- Adding apps to Hangouts Apps are a smashing means to elevate your Hangouts productivity yesteryear providing yous access to a broad hit of functionalities that include: creating documents, playing games, adding fun effects in addition to many more. To add together apps, click on the to a greater extent than icon on the left-hand side of your video telephone telephone window in addition to select ‘Add apps’. Browse through the apps featured inwards the ‘featured’ or ‘recent’ tabs in addition to selection out the ones yous desire to add.
8- Share links in addition to files through Hangouts chat Using the Hangout chat conversation characteristic volition enable yous to part textual content alongside your video telephone telephone participants. You can, for instance, part links to websites, URLs of videos , files in addition to many to a greater extent than piece on your video Hangout. To outset a chat conversation, click on the Chat icon on the left-hand side of your video telephone telephone window in addition to hence type inwards your message or glue the link to part alongside others.
Source:
Hangouts Help.
