Collaboration Services Welcomes 2022 and the Spring Semester!
The Collaboration Services team is excited to welcome or welcome back all students, faculty, and staff to 2022 and the Spring 2022 semester! Below we’ve rounded up everything you need to know as we get started with a new year and new semester.
Newest features and changes
Check out our latest blog posts regarding the newest features released during the Fall 2021 semester:
- Google Updates Recap for August 23 to September 24, 2021
- Google Updates Recap for September 27 to October 22, 2021
- Google Updates Recap for October 25 to January 7, 2022
Google Assignments
As a reminder, Google Assignments and Google Drive LTI 1.3 is now available on Canvas! Google Assignments makes it easy to create and distribute personalized Google Drive templates and worksheets to students, spot missed citations and possible plagiarism with originality reports, and save time grading while providing rich feedback all through the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education.
More information about Google Assignments can be found here: https://collaborate.vcu.edu/apps/assignments/. Our Getting to Know Google Assignments training course is also posted regularly and can be found here: go.vcu.edu/gogoogle.
Google Meet & Chat
Google Meet and Google Chat make it easy to collaborate with colleagues using their VCU Google Workspace account. Google Meet enables you to quickly start a meeting with your co-workers, students, and classmates for brainstorming and collaborative sessions while Google Chat makes it simple to create an online chatroom that leverages integrations with Gmail, Google Drive, and other Google Workspace apps in 1:1 Chats, Group Chats, and Spaces.
Google Meet now supports up to 500 participants in a single meeting and has added controls for disabling participant video and audio, making it especially useful for large classes or webinars, as well as co-host functionality to enable the speaker to stay focused while co-hosts manage the host settings and activities options. Activities in Google Meet enables you to further engage with participants through launching a Poll, Q/A section, breakout rooms, Jamboard (whiteboard) sessions, and recording a Meet for viewing later.
To learn more about Google Meet and Google Chat, please visit:
- Google Meet: https://collaborate.vcu.edu/apps/meet/
- Google Chat: https://collaborate.vcu.edu/apps/chat/
- Getting to Know Google Meet & Chat Trainings: go.vcu.edu/gogoogle
- Latest feature updates for Google Meet: https://blogs.vcu.edu/drgee/category/google-workspace/google-feature-updates/google-meet/
- Latest feature updates for Google Chat: https://blogs.vcu.edu/drgee/category/google-workspace/google-feature-updates/google-chat/
Previous mymail.vcu.edu domain is no longer available
Following our previous blog post and other communications sent regarding the January 3, 2022 deadline, the mymail.vcu.edu domain is no longer available. Faculty and staff members needing to recover data from the domain should email drgee@vcu.edu for file recovery. Please include specific details about missing folders or files, including folder/file names and owner.
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