For teachers, a Google account is:

• required to log in to MIT App Inventor for Smart Skills
• required to participate in the Google Group for each course

For students, a Google account is:

• required to log in to MIT App Inventor for Smart Skills

There are four ways to get a Google account:

• use an existing Google Apps for Education account
• use an existing Gmail account
• create a new Google account and Gmail address at https://accounts.google.com/SignUp
• create a Google account using your existing email address at https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail

For schools that don’t use Google Apps, the last option above may be preferable: teachers and students could set up a Google account (without Gmail) using their school email address, and give it the same password as their school account. There would be no change to how they read their school email, but they would now have a Google account for use with the DCU TY resources, with no new email address or password to remember.