Upon the strike of the pandemic, the whole world was forced to interact in virtual spaces. This includes office jobs, grocery and shopping, meetings, events and even the students taking lessons. One of the biggest online platforms in the e-learning space was Google Classroom. This allows many schools all over the world to build their online learning platform for classes.

The missing piece in Google Classroom

Although this platform has been one of the backbones when it comes to online classes, somehow, there is one missing feature that can complete the Google Classroom space – chat sessions.

One way for students and teachers to interact within Google Classrooms is via Zoom Meeting or Google Meet sessions. However, these two ways of communicating are mainly established for large video conferences, so often they will be set up in a group setting.

This is where RumbleTalk comes in handy. RumbleTalk is a group chat platform that is mostly used by website owners to create and embed their own group chat platforms on their own websites. We have been around since 2011, catering to many huge event companies, including Fortune 500 companies. RumbleTalk Chat is used for events, online communities, business websites, job fairs, and school websites.

How RumbleTalk completes the Google Classroom experience

Since the pandemic started, growth in the demand for virtual spaces has taken its toll. Something we have noticed is that many virtual class platforms have taken an interest in using RumbleTalk for their own classes because of several reasons:

• Easy-to-setup classroom chat
• Private one-on-one chat rooms
• Moderated Chat (Question and Answer Sessions)
• One-on-one Video/Audio Call features

Setting Up and Sharing RumbleTalk chat to your Google Classroom

1. Sign up for a RumbleTalk Group chat platform Account.

• Visit www.rumbletalk.com and create/register for a free account

2. Once you are in the admin panel, you will find the actual chat you could share with your Google Classroom Stream.

• You will find the hash code below the chat. This will be a link to the actual chat, which you can share to your Google Classroom stream.

3. Let your student know that you already have a Classroom Chat. Just share the URL link to your Google Classroom Stream. 

That’s it! Anyone can open your Google Classroom chat.

Type of Setup for your Google Classroom RumbleTalk Group Chat

Standard Classroom Group Chat (Group Chat)

• Allows your whole class to interact with one another in a virtual classroom setting.
• Choose how Private one-on-one chat conversation will take place:
  • Where students/anyone can chat with one another
  • Students can only send private one-on-one chats to the Teacher

Question and Answer (Moderated Chat)

• Choose to approve or reject messages sent by the students during discussion.

Private student-teacher consultations (Experts Chat)

• You can disable the standard Group chat discussion, and set the chat where students can only talk to the teacher. 
• Students will not see active students in the user’s list as it is automatically disabled. Only the teacher can see and reply to students’ queries.
• Video/Audio call feature is available, and this does not require anyone to install any application on their device. 

Features and Functions

Mute everyone in the chat (Admin Mode) Video link: Admin mode in RumbleTalk group chat

Having a handful of students sending too many chat conversations can be a distraction. As an educator, you can choose to mute your students all at once. This is helpful if you want to keep the spotlight on your class topic or presentation.

Turn words into links with Keywords Video link: InText Keywords in a Chat Room

Keywords (InTEXT) identify specific words and dynamically turn them into links that will lead you to any webpage, online documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, videos, and affiliate links. This is very useful in an online classroom setting such as Google Classroom because educators can link their students to review materials they can use for the class.

Play YouTube videos directly in the chat Video link: How to add a YouTube video to your RumbleTalk chat?

Unlike other chat platforms, RumbleTalk allows you to embed the YouTube video in the chat room. With this, users can play YouTube videos directly in the chat room, no need to open them in a new tab. Users can enjoy watching the same video while discussing it. Just copy the URL of the Youtube video or Vimeo videos you want to share, and then paste and send it into the chat. 

Online classes will greatly benefit from this because teachers and students won’t need to open a new tab just to watch the same video. This helps both parties learn more about one thing – such as when it comes to those who are visual learners. It also reduces distractions since they don’t need to switch tabs or screens while studying

Multimedia Sharing: Send Files & Images Video link: How to attach different file types in a RumbleTalk chat?

Add color to every topic by sharing any type of file, image, and video to the group chat. Using RumbleTalk’s file-sharing tool, educators can just click the paperclip icon at the bottom of the chat window and choose the file they want to share with the class. By doing this, students will have easy access to all the files shared in the group chat, and they will be able to view and download them, even when using their smartphones. This allows for more efficient, interactive conversations with everything you need in one virtual space.

Enhance every online learning experience through Google Classroom and RumbleTalk Chat

As technology continues to change the ways we interact with one another, education professionals are now expected to have the best in remote learning tools. With RumbleTalk Group Chat, educators can now use Google Classroom to its fullest potential – benefiting students and teachers alike.

Online chat offers several benefits to attendees at hybrid events, such as being able to ask questions and participate in discussions with presenters and other participants in real-time. However, if you aren’t using the right tools, the chat can be frustrating and unproductive.

This guide highlights three tools that will help you maximize RumbleTalk chat during hybrid events. Therefore making the most out of the opportunity to connect and interact.

What are hybrid events?

Hybrid events are those that fall between in-person and online. They usually include a combination of seminar-style talks and networking time.

With so many different ways to engage, hybrid events provide a great opportunity for personal connections to form. This is something in short supply in an online environment.

That said, hybrid events can be difficult to navigate as an attendee. Here are some great ways to support them and supercharge their overall event experience.

Create real-time conversations

Embed a group chat next to your event to give your audience a space to interact. Not only is it an excellent way to build engagement between you and your audience, but it also gives them a venue to ask questions and get responses from each other! It’s essentially their own live chat room that you can monitor and moderate in real-time.

Furthermore, it allows you to reach new audiences, build community, keep attendees engaged and get more sales opportunities. The possibilities are endless!

Attendees who interact in your group chat have a high propensity for being buyers themselves. So, having open discussions about challenges they face and how your solution could be beneficial for them is a great way to increase awareness of your brand, products, or services.

Get people engaged with fun conversational prompts

During a live event or webinar, polls are an easy way to help get participants involved and keep them engaged. You can use polls to ask questions and display results to those in attendance. Moreover, you can simply use them to get people talking about topics that interest them.

Polls are also handy for gathering more information about attendees; asking where they’re from, what their background is, etc., is a great way to gauge audience reactions and see if what you’re presenting is on-target.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use polls.

Versatile and fully customizable chat rooms

One of the visions RumbleTalk has is to make the chat rooms fully customizable, both for novice users and professional developers. Our chat comes with pre-made skins and themes you can choose from. And, it has full CSS capabilities. Perfect for when you want to completely personalize your chat to make it look and feel like your own.

This feature allows organizers to take full control over their rooms. They can do this by choosing which elements should be present and where they should be placed on the screen. Furthermore, the easy-to-use design tab eliminates the need for any backend coding, which makes RumbleTalk a super versatile tool to have in your hybrid event arsenal.

Here.’s a video on how to customize your chat using CSS.

Maximize Your Speakers’ Time with Q&A Tools

Moderating a Q&A between your speaker and audience is a great way to create two-way communication during your hybrid events. This makes sure that audience members get answers to their questions.

However, it’s also easy for Q&A sessions to get out of hand. And in fact, most attendees will tell you that poorly moderated Q&As can actually be worse than no Q&A at all.

Use the Moderated Chat to keep your event running smoothly. This chart type allows you to ap[prove or reject messages, or questions before it goes live. You can also mute all users, ban spammers, and slow down the chat as needed.

Supercharged networking experience

Easily add value and connect with your virtual attendees. How? Just embed a powerful chat plugin beside your hybrid events.

Our tip is to encourage all of your panelists and speakers to use the chat room while they’re speaking so you can have an immediate conversation. It’s more engaging rather than just watching the event without any interaction.

Go ahead and get your free chat now! We’d also be glad to help you set up for your next event, just email us at support@rumbletalk.com.

Online community communication in a large group can be a roller coaster of emotions. It can be both intimidating and empowering, as well as frightening and exciting. Establishing group rules is one helpful way to navigate large group online community interaction.

Rules differ from one community to the next, but there are a few universal ones that can be applied to communities in all industries. Here are the do’s and don’ts when communicating with a community.

DO accept new members.

As with all successful communities, accepting new members is a must. However, make sure that you screen each member to avoid spam or trolls. It’s also important to not expose your community to harmful individuals.

For this, you can enable the Guest login or let them register in the group chat.

DO NOT ask them to introduce themselves if they are uncomfortable.

When you welcome a new member, don’t go overboard. Once a new member enters the chat, there can be a welcome message. This welcome message can include how they can introduce themselves or have fun in the chat room.

DO make ‘house rules’ for communication.

In the welcome message stated above, this can include house rules or chat rules. Let the community know what’s good or bad. Talk about this or that. Admins, or moderators, will be eyeing the chat from time to time. Therefore, they can make sure that the chat rules are implemented and followed.

DON’T say “anything goes,” because you’ll be sorry later.

As an admin, you are tasked to watch over the community chat. Interactions in the community can be a lot. So, there may be times that admins will allow everything to happen in the chat room. This leads to an array of problems.

To avoid this, stand firm on the chat rules. Community interaction is good, but only if it helps the community.

DON’T let your community devolve into a spam forum.

Since you’ve opened your community to the public, there’s a higher chance that spammers or trolls may enter the chat room. Even if you have the right intentions and chat rules, there are still people that will disregard them. As a countermeasure, disconnect or ban persistent users that go against the chat rules.

As an admin, you can easily kick them out of the chat room temporarily or permanently, depending on their attitude. For non-admin users, they can ignore messages by clicking on a spammer’s or troll’s username. By doing this, you will also keep your community safe.

Community interaction is hard but worth it

There is no single code to crack when it comes to community engagement and interaction. Every audience is unique, and companies and individuals must learn what works best through trial and error. The process can be difficult, but it can also be a lot of fun. It forces you to be creative all the time. It’s not one size fits all. Sometimes, one strategy will work, but the next time, it won’t. That’s the process of community interaction. As a result, you must constantly try new things and be willing to fail.

The do’s and don’ts shown here are just tip of the iceberg. Once you create a community or join one, you’ll be discovering more. Therefore, when that time comes, you must be prepared with the tools and features that you can use.

If you need to create a community, then contact us for a free demo. You may send an email to support@rumbletalk.com and we’ll cater your request. For simple ideas and tips about creating a community platform, then you can visit the blog and read some articles.