I have been setting up a lot of Gmail accounts recently for students in computer literacy courses I teach and I have not needed to do SMS validation (last accou

I have been setting up a lot of Gmail accounts recently for students in computer literacy courses I teach and I have not needed to do SMS validation (last account I set up was last week). The CAPTCHA's a pain though. Imagine trying to explain to someone who's never used a computer before why we have to keep retyping the blurry words to get to what they want.