Screen share for Chromebook and Android

The Mobile Guardian Classroom Management Tool allows you as a teacher the ability to oversee, in real-time, your students' screens when they are in your class. This feature gives you the extra pair of eyes you need in the classroom to keep your students focused and on track in your classroom. 

The Screen share option for your students is currently only available for Chromebook and Android devices (Including Android EMM).

This article will guide you through the following tasks:

• Student Screen share on Android & EMM Devices
• Student Screen share on Chromebook
• Teacher sharing screen to Class (Chromebook Only)
• Teacher sharing  individual students' screens to class  (Chromebook Only)

Student Screen share on Android & EMM Devices

Screen share on Android works for both Android devices and EMM-enrolled devices.

If you have an Android Classroom or a mixed Android and Chromebook classroom you can follow the guide below to ensure your classroom devices share screens.

1. Ensure that all your students' devices are added to your respective class.
   
   
2. Start a class containing an Android device.
   
   
3. When the class has started, this will prompt the student's Android devices to request access to share their screens.
   Example of Message: “Mobile Guardian will start capturing everything that’s displayed on your screen”.
   
   
4. The students should select Start Now to start sharing their screen.
   
   
5. If you have enabled Force Join, the devices will be automatically joined to your class. If you have not enabled Force Join, the students will need to manually join the class.
   
   
6. Once the student has completed the share screen and joined the class, you will display the device on your classroom dashboard.

Please Note: To enlarge any one of the student’s devices, simply click on the screen. 

Student Screen share on Chromebook

Running a Chromebook Classroom with screen share is not that much different from android. 

If you have a Chromebook Classroom or a mixed Android and Chromebook classroom you can follow the guide below to ensure your classroom devices share screens.

1. Ensure that all your students' devices are added to your respective class.
   
   
2. Start your class containing the Chromebook student devices.
   
   
3. If you have enabled Force Join, the devices will be automatically joined to your class. If you have not enabled Force Join, the students will need to manually join the class.
   If Force join is enabled, the devices will automatically join the class. This will trigger a prompt on your student's devices.
   
   
4. This prompt will request permission for the students to share their screens (This is for the Google Privacy policy and will not be able to be disabled). This must be accepted by the student before the screen share is enabled.
   
   
5. For those classes where Force Join is not enabled, the students will need to click Join Now, thereafter they will receive a prompt that will request permission for the students to share their screen.

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6. Once the students have clicked on the screen and selected share, you will see the device’s display on your dashboard under the corresponding student.

Please Note: To enlarge any one of the student’s devices, simply click on the screen. 

Teacher sharing screen to Class (Chromebook Only)

In the event you would like to share your screen with all your students, the classroom dashboard allows you to select the relevant screen and share it with all the Chromebook devices in your class. 

 Follow these steps below to setup screen share for your device:

1. In your active class either Select All, to present to all devices in your class, or select a specific device you would like to share your screen with.
   
   
2. Once you have selected the devices an option will display on your dashboard Share My Screen. Click this option.

3. You will then be prompted with a confirmation.  Please select Share my screen to share your screen.

4. Once you select Share my screen, you will see a Google  window giving you the following options:

a. Chrome Tab - A selection of your open Chrome tabs will be given here

b. Window Tab- Gives you a selection of windows you may select from your current windows running on your device.

c. Your Entire Screen

5. Once you have chosen which option you would like to share, click the Share button.

Well done! Your screen should now be viewable on the Chromebook devices you chose to present to.

Teacher sharing individual students screen to class (Chromebook Only)

Chromebook Classroom also allows the teacher the ability to share one of their student's screens with the rest of the classroom. This might be useful when any of the students are presenting a piece of work in class and needs to demonstrate on their device.

Follow these steps below to setup screen share of the student's device:

1. Ensure that all your students' devices are added to your respective class.
   
   
2. Start your class containing the Chromebook student and remind students to click the Share screen option when they join.
   
   
3. In your active class, select the ellipsis dots on the device card to get a drop-down menu of the options and click Share Student's screen. 

4. Navigate to the Students screen who will be presenting and click on the Share Screen icon on their student card.

5. Once you are done sharing the student's screen you must make sure to stop Sharing by clicking back on the options for the same student and selecting Stop Share student's screen.

Congratulations, you can now share your screen in multiple ways.

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