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Why should I use Google Hangouts?

• informal conversations with students (e.g., virtual office hours)
• work collaboratively on a project
• video, audio, and chat tools
• share screens, documents, and presentations
• hangouts are limited to 10 participants

How do I begin using Google Hangouts?

1. activate Google+ in your NYIT Google Apps account
2. create a circle
3. start a hangout and invite your circles and/or individuals

Activate Google+

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• Access google account via NYIT Google Apps. Log into the Why use Google Hangouts? portal at http://my.nyit.edu, and look at the menu on the left side of the screen. At the bottom of the list, you will find links to “NYIT Apps Docs,” “NYIT Apps Calendar,” and “NYIT Apps Sites.” Click on any of them to be taken to NYIT Google Apps. In the top left corner you will see your name with the “+” sign in front of it. Click on it. If you don’t see it, click on “More” in the toolbar at the top and then “Even More” and find Google+.
• Install (or make sure you have installed) the Google Talk Plugin.

Create a 'circle' for your class

1. Create your class circle first.
2. Then add your students to the class circle so you can communicate with all of them at once.

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Start a Hangout

1. Click Start a Hangout on the top right side of your screen.
2. Add entire circles or individuals (individual students) that you want to hang out with.
3. Click Invite to start the hangout and send the notifications to the people you chose. Note that, although you can invite as many people as you want to join a hangout, you can't have more than 10 people in a hangout at once. If additional people try to enter, they'll be told the hangout is currently full.
4. Anyone you have invited can join the hangout at any time, so keep in mind that if you have invited multiple people this might not be the proper forum to have conversations with individual students about matters such as grades.

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• Create any documents you are going to share ahead of time in Google Drive to easily add them to the hangout. You can open a Google doc or upload a file from your computer in a hangout, making it easy for you and your students to write or edit a document together from anywhere.
• The contents of the chat window will not be saved once the hangout ends. Instead, you can take notes in a hangout and access them afterwards.
• When youinvite people to join a hangout, a post will appear in their Google+ stream telling them that there's a hangout going on, along with all the people currently in that hangout.

• You can invite as many people as you want to join a hangout, but you can't have more than 10 people in a hangout at once. If additional people try to enter, they'll be told the hangout is currently full.

• All hangout participants are able to share the hangout with their own Circles. So, it's possible that people you don't know may learn that you're hanging out.
• Google Hangouts conversations will work more smoothly if you close other applications on your computer.
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• Internet Connection and an updated browser, preferably Chrome http://goo.gl/2OS4u
• A device with a webcam (a computer or a laptop). You can also access a hangout from a mobile device or a tablet, but you might not be able to use all the features, such as note taking or shared document editing.
• Install (or make sure you have installed) the Google Talk Plugin.