Hangout Chat

[Hochbaum, Rabbi Dov]

Hi all,

School admins are hearing from our teachers that Hangout Chat (formerly Gmail Chat) has been out of control this year. I always treated it as a classroom management issue but between giving attention to zoom and just the craziness of the year, students are chatting away and teachers are not able to manage it on their own. Is there a reason not to disable it? Is it tied to any other service or tool (ie. chatting in Google Docs)? I know it can be easily done in the GAFE panel but just wanted to see if there were any reasons not disable it.

thanks,

Dov

Rabbi Dov Hochbaum

Educational Technology 

201-986-1414 | rdhoc...@rynj.org

[Cynthia Miller]

Our secondary students are using it for collaboration during study halls.  This is really a responsible use/classroom management issue. I feel the urge to block it as well, but ...

[Rob Hayes]

We have it disabled and they are creating shared documents to chat on.

You don't have to provide them a path but they will find one.

Still has to be handled in the classroom.

 

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[Chad Ardoff]

Dov,

We have it turned off for all students and it has not really been an issue I am aware of.

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[Mark Nelson]

Hi Dov,

We turned it off a few weeks ago after similar feedback from teachers.

Mark Nelson, Executive Director of Technology

11091 W 32 Mile Rd

Bruce MI  48065

586-281-1139

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[Peter Pham]

 We've had Google Hangouts and Chat turned off for a majority of students; however there's an OU for the exception which is for students who are part of DHH (deaf hard of hearing) so they can video call their sign language interpreter.

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