This tutorial teaches how to sign up for and use Google Voice in 15 steps. Google Voice allows users to manage phone calls and text messages for free through their computer by linking an existing phone number. It is beneficial for college students to improve communication with classmates and instructors. The tutorial demonstrates how to add contacts, send text messages, view call history, make phone calls through Google Voice and Google Email, and end calls. Following the instructions will allow users to set up a free Google Voice account to make and receive calls online to potentially save money on cell phone minutes.

1. -TUTORIAL- How to sign up & use ~ Googlevoice

2. Hi, The following instructions are for mytutorial on which I will be teaching you in steps on how to correctly sign up and use GoogleVoice online. Plus, it’s all 1 0 0 % FREE. Google Voice is a really great professional & personal online communication tool that combines your current phone lines, messages and email, all in your Google voice account. This includes your phone calls and your text messages. Personally, I think this tool would be beneficial to all college students to help improve communication between classmates and instructors.

3. REQUIREMENTS : + A computer with internet access.+Anexisting phone line(a landlineor cell phone #) + A web browser. + You must also have an email in order to sign up with Google voice. (I would highly suggest you just create a Google email account first, before you sign up with Google voice.) For these set of instructions that I used to create this tutorial, I usedMozilla Firefox web browser andalso used an mac operating system. WARNING : The first steps of signing up for Google voice may be slightly different for each new user depending on whether or not they have a Google email already or some other type of email already.. This is important to understand in order to create your own Google voice account & phone number.

4. Step 1 Open your Web Browser.

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19. Last Step to sign up Click F I N I S H

20. Congratulations, your completely signed up ...

21. Next, let me show you how to USE google voices’ top features

22. 1. THIS IS WHERE YOU ADD/MANAGE YOUR CONTACTS (friends, classmates, co-workers & instructors)

23. Sending a TEXT MESSAGE

24. Text conversations. PHONE CALL HISTORY AND MESSAGES ARE KEPT HERE.

25. How to make a phone call on your google voice account Then just enter the # you want to call and then click connect

26. How to make a call through your google email. First Sign in

27. Make a call in your Google Email

28. Ending a call…

29. Congratulations, you learned some features on Google voice!

30. To conclude this Tutorial Once you follow through with these instructions I have provided, step by step, you will successfully create your own Google voice account. By using Google voice, I hope all financially struggling college students and anyone else who barely afford a cell phone understand they can now make outgoing and incoming calls anytime online for free whenthey use Google voice. This could possibly save students some money by keeping students from using up their daytime minutes.I want students to know if they ever need to communicate with someone for anything whether its through email, phone or texts;Studentsshould definitely use Google voice but you can only use it when you are on a computer and online.Overall, I also hope this online communicationtool will help improve students’ school work productivity and increase their schoolwork stability when on-campus, in the classroom or even at home too.