If you're unfamiliar with virtual classrooms, they're basically a slide (Google Slides works great) that lets you direct students to different links. This tutorial is the one that a teacher pointed out to me first and it's very well done. The article I linked to above has more information and several examples too.
So once you've made a virtual classroom, what's the best way to get it to students? Personally I prefer to publish the slide. Here's an example of how that might look. I prefer this to downloading a PDF or linking to the presentation because:
- This will open faster for students using Chromebooks. If you've ever checked a lot of Google Slides presentations on a Chromebook, you know it can be tedious loading each one. Using this method avoids that problem.
- A single published slide will open much more quickly for students and links open in a new tab with just a single click. (PDFs are similar, but the links don't open in a new tab.)
- Once published, you can easily link to the slide from Google Classroom or any other learning management system you use. You also can embed it on your website.
I made this short video showing how to publish a slide and get the link.
This video shows how to use the embed code to embed it on a Google Site. It's similar for other website creation tools.
