The universities aroud the world have already closed due to COVID-19. This scenario also affect Universiti Malaysia Pahang that closed from 17 March 2020 to 1 June 2020.  Thus, lecturers are faced with difficulties to continue the classroom lectures. Although this can be a daunting task, instead of cobbling together tools and apps that may not work perfectly with each other, consider the Google ecosystem. You’ll find almost everything you need to create a resourceful and organized classroom– all for free.

1. Google classroom – Lecturers can use it to create class, publish assignments, make announcement and organize digital files for online lecture.
2. Google Meet – Can do meeting on the go, virtual training classes, remote interview and more.
3. Google Drive – Lectures can store many different file types powerpoint documents, word documents, excel documents, pdf audio, images, videos, and more.
4. Google Docs- an online word processor that lets you create and format documents and work with other people.
5. Google Forms – Use Google Forms to create assessments such as Quiz and Assignment.
6. Google Calender – Use Google Calendar to plan your routine schedule, create a to do list,set reminders for students assesments and collaborate with others students and staff.
7. Google chromecast – With chromecast, lecturer can cast lecturer slides from smartphone or laptop to TV and projector.
8. Google home / google nest – is a smartspeaker that uses artificial intelligence to answer your questions and obey certain commands. Lecturer can make this google nest as device to assist online lecture.

For me , as a lecturer, I have used many tools from google and it has helped me to prepare online lectures effectively. Thank you Google.

Online Lecture using with help of smartphone, google chromecast and google home mini.