hey everybody welcome back mr campbell with another tutorial here um part of me just wants
to stand up and cheer and clap and scream uh for robert uh hugh deck and the work that he's done
on his google me breakout room um i know that we're all waiting for google to update
and there's been uh so many people doing so many things to get all of this working and
people are starting our teachers came back today at our school and it's just anyway
robert thank you i don't know if you'll see this or not but everybody that watches this video
please go to this page share and show your love to robert for the work that he's done on this
google me breakout room extension so there's a lot of information here um
and he's got some of his own tutorials i just wanted to kind of break it down and go through
it on itself so there's some things that you need to install first obviously you need to
go to chrome extensions and install the google me breakout room you'll also need to have the
google meet grid view fix as of july 21st as all of you know the old google me grid view
stopped working and so there was a fix and so those need to be connected together
so what robert has done is basically once you set up your courses and you add your codes
whether you're using google classroom or you're not using google craft classroom
it's a one click start for all of your breakout rooms to happen you can bring in lists of kids
you can upload those and share them or you can assign them previously and give them the link
and they will be able to join those meets based on those links so let's jump into it i've already
kind of got it set up so we're going to scroll to the left and you can see what it does so
i've got three windows open this is my main google me so this would be like a waiting room of sorts
so there's no guests in this meet here this is test room one down here and this is test room two
it probably makes more sense to go like this for those of you that are watching at home or at work
this is what the extension looks like over here on the right and so just first off some
things that we can do with everything all at once so we have a broadcast to all rooms
so you'll notice now that my camera is off in all rooms what this does is this takes over all of the
connected rooms so i can turn the camera on to all three rooms so you'll see all three rooms turn on
i can turn that off down here as well i can turn the mic on you'll see now that
the mic is on might get a little reverb in the recording you can turn it off
right there's that as well which is everybody else me muting myself different things like
that i can also bounce from room to room with those same controls here so if i go to main
test you'll see that i'm on test one now that i can jump in and i can talk on test one
i can jump over to test two and test one right or this google breakout this this breakout room one
mutes and then i can talk in group two so what this allows you to do is the teachers it allows
you to jump from room to room to room without having to have any other extensions like mute
tab and i know i have another tutorial that's just how to do this on your own
this is so much better i cannot tell you how much better this is this is amazing
so let's break this down and show you some of the settings before you get started and getting set up
so when you click on settings you'll have tiles which is basically separate windows where all of
these will open in separate windows or you'll have tabs which opens up in the same window
the max that you can have right i would put five comfortably here if you have a bigger screen or
a second monitor that you're doing this with like let's say you have just a you know a 20
inch monitor you could fit probably six screens over there and maybe a couple on your desktop
so you could break out your rooms into smaller groups the toolbar changes colors here you can
see that it's pink pink pink magenta you can change it to whatever color you want
you can also allowed outsiders here to participate in those google me breakout rooms
now courses courses are basically if i have different classes so if we're thinking about
middle school or high school first period second period third period fourth period or algebra one
algebra two algebra three with elementary you're thinking more about subjects so math language arts
science history um computers presentations however you want to divide up those that's
what we'd be looking at for your courses in individual courses you're going to create
separate breakout rooms so let me explain i'm a teacher that teaches middle school i have
six classes essentially what i'm going to do with six classes of let's say 35 kids a piece
i'm going to end up creating 42 and i know this sounds like a lot right 42 google me
links because i want to have seven breakout rooms in each class of five kids so that gives us five
ranked times seven is 35 and then seven times six classes is 42 breakout rooms separately right
so i just have one course right here and it's my course if i wanted to add a new course
i would just add it here then i click save it says enter the list of your courses
so if i go over to rooms i go back to courses you'll see that i have the two courses here
now here when i jump over to rooms this is where you would add your six or seven different rooms
for the class of 35 kids so the main room is always the first room right that's the hub right
that's like the regular google map and now that main room connects with all of the other rooms
and that's right here you can see it just says meet there's the code right there
and this code matches right here you'll see that test one if i come up here
ro it's that one right there room two gdi
gi is right here that's the course that i created before everybody started watching this video
if i go to test course you'll see that i don't have any rooms selected or created so what i would
want to do in order to make this work is i want to create a main room right i would need to open
a new google meet
we're going to grab this code right here
and that is our main room
okay so i'm going to close this right i'm going to open a couple more as we're going through this
so i have one main room i'm going to save it so now it's saved i'm going to add a breakout
room one right i need to open a new google me so just hit command n or control n if you're on a pc
meet.google.com we click on new meeting start an instant meeting we're going to grab that link
okay and we're going to save it now what i'm actually going to do is i'm
going to close that first course that i had which is right here
okay i go back into my settings make sure that my settings are the way that i want them
i want to do tile separated windows
so you'll see now that i have my course and a test course i have rooms and this is just
for the test course if i switch over to my course you'll see that i have two rooms here
right so now when i click on meet i can start with a google me or i can start with classroom so
what i'm going to do is i'm going to start with google meet
and i'm going to open both
what you'll see now is that first group of breakout rooms opens automatically
so i'm going to close those
i'm going to choose my course now the reason i'm going to show you this is so you show you
the difference so i've selected my course we're going to go to test course it's going to tell
you i only have one breakout room connected with this course plus the main room so when i click on
open both it should open a main room and then breakout room one so we're gonna open both
there we go exactly like we planned it right i can jump from room to room
go here i can do the same controls i can broadcast to every room i can talk to every room i can
turn the camera on every room i think that's enough of me so we're going to close this here
now some of the other things that you can do you can start with google classroom right and he goes
through specifically right here and tells you how to do that so the way that you're going to do
this is to connect your and i'm not going to show you all of this because i've showed you the basic
basics of this is you're going to connect your breakout rooms to your google classroom
and it's light here you can click on it right you can add breakouts
if you want to add participants right you can copy them you can give breakout assignments
if somebody's the note taker if somebody's the thinker or if somebody's the questioner
uh if somebody's the leader the spokesman or the time keeper whatever you want to do there
right you can also copy and paste pre-assigned lists of students using word
i have controls right here and we also are going to get reports and hopefully there we go
so it'll show me a report or download a csv of all my breakout room links participant attendance
breakout assignments and breakout groups so when i'm done it'll spit all of this back on a csv
this was kind of a quick tutorial on how to do this i just it is amazing and and
the hard part for me is to show you how to do this but really if you want this to be
successful is to jump in it'll probably take i'll be honest maybe a half an hour to get your whole
schedule set up but that half an hour when you can just click on a button and grab those breakout
rooms and start those breakout rooms so you don't have to create it every time and those are saved
so once you build it once you don't have to go back and build it again so again
huge shout out huge huge shout out to robert and and what he's done here again i would ask
that you go and show him some love here give him a five star four star rating here download the link
share with everybody you know go to his youtube channel watch his videos ask questions there
he's basically got all of the information that you need here where to go and he's answering his
emails here he's got a facebook page set up that's where you can email him i will put a link to both
extensions both the google meet breakout room and the google me grid view fix
underneath if you're here it's because you're an educator and you care about kids and i care
about you because you care about kids i love you i appreciate you and i'm glad that you're here