Google Chat is a simple and easy tool that will be familiar to some or most. Google Hangouts is no more - it has been split into two applications, Google Meet and Google Chat.


Google Chat is available to all users during Distance Learning. During normal operations, students do not have access to chat, but to aid in distance learning, it has been activated for student users.


To user Google Chat:


  1. Go to chat.google.com
  2. Log in with your google account.
  3. Click through the introduction and then click the "Get Started" button.
  4. You will be logged into the app and are ready to start chatting. 
  5. Click the search box provided. You will be granted a number of options; you can create chat groups, or search for individual users to chat with.
  6. That's it!