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Virtual Art Room Templates

Need to design a virtual art room quickly? Whether you teach at an online school or you’re out of the building due to inclement weather, natural disaster, or pandemic, school must go on. Don’t spend all day designing your own when you can be up and ready in an instant. Simply arrange your space, save your slide, insert it into a new Google Slides document, and make your clickable links. That’s it!

All of the graphics inside each of the five background slides are fully moveable and customizable. Make different interactive art rooms for each of your grade levels. Link to assignments using images and text. Design your room with your personality in mind. Have a class mascot or Bitmoji®? Snap a picture and bring it into the layout or drag it in. Make your mascot talk to your class! Snap pictures of things in your art room and bring them into the layout to personalize the space.

Organize your distance learning plans into one digital space and have them ready to go. Schools will likely start requiring teachers not only have sub plans but plans in place for at home learning. Feel prepared and ready to go.

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Why Design a Digital Art Room?

There are many challenges with distance learning, one of which is the lack of warmth and connection students feel in a remote environment. Whether you’re teaching in-person on a daily basis, assigning things via Google Classroom, or just sending home packets, not being with students in the same space can feel rather impersonal.

Creating your own art room away from school is one way to engage learners (and hopefully lure more into completing assignments!) What student wouldn’t be excited to see what you have planned for them this week when the materials are presented in a unique and inviting way?

Use these virtual art room templates to design your own space, link to assignments, and show off your personality. Move objects around within the space for different classes or weekly assignments. Add your own graphics, too! Take screenshots of assignments or import students artwork, classroom posters, or anything else that would make it feel more your own. If you’re creating online video content, take a screenshot of the video and overlap it on the laptop. And lastly, if you have a personalized avatar character, add that in, too.

Why Use Google Slides for A Virtual Art Room?

• FAMILIARITY: A lot of the features of Google Slides are similar to PowerPoint and will get your room up super quick. No need to edit a PowerPoint and figure out how to upload it to Slides.
• USER-FRIENDLY: You are likely already familiar with storing files in Google Drive.
• INSANT SAVE AS: All changes in Google Slides are instantly saved in Google Drive. Ever accidentally close down an app or other online software and changes weren’t saved? Eliminate the frustration and disappointment of lost presentations!
• ACCESSIBILITY: Parents, students, and admins can use an iPad, desktop or laptop computer, and even a Chrome book to access your virtual art room to view assignments.
• SHAREABILITY: Simply share your digital art room the same way you’ve been sharing assignments with students via Google Drive or Google Classroom.

Teacher Directions

The download contains a four-page PDF with directions on how to access the virtual art room templates. I’ve included step-by-step picture directions for some basics including inserting and resizing images as well as how to flip an image.

But I’ve gone a step further in outlining the order of operations in curating your space. How to import images, add video screenshots, add text boxes and images, and how to link to external content.

And this document comes ready to go in Google Drive, so don’t worry about trying to figure out how to import it into your Drive!

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