10 Google Tools That Make Your Life Easier | Learn2Earn Blog
By Maria Sellers Google has a wealth of tools, but finding those tools that work specifically for a teacher requires some thought and research. As an eLearning Specialist, it’s my job to be a digital detective and find what’s truly worth the time and consideration of a teacher. I’ve developed this list of must-have Google tools based on the following criteria: Does it perform a task that used to demand a lot of my time? Add these tools to your arsenal of teacher apps and programs—they may just make your life a little easier. 1. Google Keep is my new found treasure. 2. Traditional quizzes and assessments pose two problems: they take a lot of time to grade and don’t make it easy to analyze and assess the data for later use, which administrators want teachers to do. Luckily, creating assessments with Google Forms is easy and can include one question or one hundred questions, depending upon your needs. 3. The solution, Flubaroo, arrived many years ago, but was still a complicated tool. 4. 5. 6.
Google Slides: Your First Week Activity
Add your introduction slide here If you are just getting started with Google Slides, or if you’re a veteran, using Google Slides collaboratively is a great way to introduce Google Docs to the students. This intro activity demonstrates using collaborative documents, allows students to get to know each other and helps you to learn the students names. Create a Google Slides presentation and share it with all of the students. In Google Classroom you will attach the Slides presentation as “Students can edit.” If you are not using Google Classroom, click on the blue share button in the upper right-hand corner. Under the View menu, choose “Master.” The master shows the master master slide and the 6 layouts. Click on the remaining layout. Rename the slide layout to “USE THIS ONE.” Click on the slide tile on the left in the slide master. Rename the 2nd layout to “do NOT use.” Edit the first slide layout. The first slide is now showing your student slide layout. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015
Google Drive: Select Multiple Files
In the new Google Drive you single click a file to reveal toolbar options and to utilize the info pane to find out information about the file. (1) Click on the file (2) Reveal toolbar options such as link to file, share file, preview file, trash file, locate the folder it is in and more options to copy the file and more. (3) Notice on the right hand side of the toolbar is an i in a circle to reveal the info pane which will (4) tell you which folder the file is in. In the new Google Drive the checkboxes on the side of the file names are gone. In order to select multiple files click once on the first file you wish to select. Hold down the SHIFT key when you click on the last file. To choose selected files hold down the CONTROL key instead (Command key on a Mac). Like this: Like Loading...
Finding Plagiarism with Google Search
There are many great products to help detect plagiarism in student work, including Grammarly. My first line of defense if I suspect plagiarism is to simply use Google Search. Most of the time, students will use the first couple of results from a Google search when conducting their research. Typing in a student’s topic and looking at the first few results can be helpful in plagiarism detection. Key clues for me that a student may not be using their own original words or ideas is when the phrase of a sentence does not match their normal writing style. “Put quotations around the phrase.” Students may change the wording slightly. Thank you to @rachelpfoutz for this awesome suggestion. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015 Like this: Like Loading...
Google Doc Tip: Find Revision History
If you are using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides or Draw you will notice next to the menu options is a message letting you know that your document is saved in Google Drive. This message is a hyperlink that will launch revision history. Revision history lets you see who made what changes when. It also allows you to revert back to an old version if you are not liking the current changes. Like this: Like Loading...
35 More Things You Can Do With Google Classroom
Back when I had only had a list of 35 ways to use Google Classroom I submitted a poster session proposal to ISTE. Since then the list has grown and you can now purchase “50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom” on Amazon. For my poster session I have come up with an additional 35 ways you can use Google Classroom. (I guess that brings me up to 85). Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015 Like this: Like Loading...
Create a Shared Folder
An integral part of my classroom is peer feedback. While Google Classroom makes it very easy to create and collect assignments, making student work accessible to other students is more difficult. Here is a possible work around to help you get students collaborating together. Each time you create an assignment a folder is automatically generated in the teachers Google Drive. Set the due date to be the last day of school. On the 2nd tab in Google Classroom is the option for “Students.” Instead of sending the email you only want to copy the email addresses. Control C to copy the email addresses. While you can go to your Google Drive, open the Google Classroom folder, open the class folder, locate the Shared File… Google Classroom makes it easy to connect directly to the folder you just created. In the Google Classroom stream click on the assignment title to open the assignment details. Leave the setting as “Can Edit.” Students will find this folder under “Incoming” in Google Drive. Like this:
Learn the Ins and Outs of Google Classroom from an Expert
Educator and blogger Alice Keeler has written extensively on integrating Google Classroom with everyday school work. Spanning three posts on her blog Teacher Tech, Keeler has assembled 46 ways teachers can take advantage of Classroom, the latest in Google's Apps for Education lineup. Google’s cloud-based classroom organizer streamlines the flow of daily assignments and helps overcome teacher–student communication barriers. Earlier this month, Keeler was a guest on the TechEducator podcast, along with EdTech contributor Sam Patterson, and discussed how Google Classroom has aided her own instruction and how teachers can benefit from her experience. We won't steal all of Keeler's Classroom thunder, but here are five tips from her list: Create a lesson. Google has been adding new features to Classroom since its introduction in August. “I see this as just the beginning of where we’re going with Classroom,” Yeskel said.
Google Drive: désactivez le téléchargement et la copie
Vous partagez régulièrement des documents depuis Google Documents? Google vous offre dorénavant plus de contrôle lorsque vous invitez des collaborateurs. Il est possible de verrouiller certaines fonctions comme le téléchargement, l’impression ou la copie d’un document partagé. Ces nouveaux paramètres de partage permettent d’avoir une politique de distribution plus serrée sur certains documents. Jusqu’à présent, les utilisateurs de Google Drive qui désiraient restreindre les droits sur un document avaient uniquement accès au mode de partage lecture seule. Les personnes qui ont accès à un document en lecture seule peuvent copier, télécharger et imprimer le document partagé. Pour désactiver le téléchargement, l’impression et la copie d’un fichier partagé, rendez-vous sur la fenêtre de partage et appuyez sur le bouton “Avancé”. Ces nouveaux paramètres de partages sont uniquement accessibles depuis Google Docs, Sheets et Slides. Benoit Descary Via : Google Apps Updates blog Image via pandadoc
