Hangouts Now An Extension for Your Browser

Tired of having to go into mail to access and use Hangouts? There is now an extension that allows you to access Hangouts from your Chrome browser. This allows you to send, receive, and initiate Google Hangouts directly from the Chrome browser window. Hangouts are voice and video calls.Hangouts also allows you to share your screen with others and allow them to access your screen. There are tons of different learning and teaching opportunities with Hangouts. 

To get the Hangouts extension click to the menu item in the top right corner of your browser window. Then select More Tools>Extensions>Get More Extensions (scroll down to see this). In the search field type Hangouts and click the search button. Then click the Free or Add to Chrome button. 

Hangouts has now been added to your browser. You will notice the Hangouts icon (a small green speech bubble) in the extensions area of your browser. 

To activate Hangouts just click the Hangouts icon. Do a search for the person you want to talk to and then click the phone icon for a voice call or the video camera icon for a video call. Teachers in our domain should be able to call anyone who has a gmail account. Students are restricted to only be able to send and receive calls to and from people who have an account within our domain. 

Hangouts is also now available as an extension for your Chromebook.