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If you are like me, you have more than one Google account. You may have your G Suite account from school plus your personal Gmail account. I was working with a teacher the other day and we were trying to create a TemplateTab. We were clearly in her school account but it kept making it in her personal Gmail account. Frustrating.

Account Picture

When in Google products such as Gmail or Google Drive click on your account picture in the upper left. There should only be ONE account. If you see two or three you will want to disconnect those accounts and instead manage the accounts in Chrome.

Add Account

When you click on "Add account" there are at least 2 accounts that is being remembered and this can cause conflicts. If you have Chrome extensions, those are only logged in as one account. Using a Chrome extension will potentially cause things to happen in your other account since that account is what the extensions are linked to.

Manage People in Chrome

If you use Google Chrome you can instead manage people. Notice in the Chrome browser ABOVE your profile picture it will either say your name or have a picture of a blob man. Click on this and choose "Manage people" from the list. You may need to first "Sign into Chrome."

Add Person

You will want to "Add person" to add additional Google accounts. What is nice about adding people to Chrome instead of adding accounts is everything is separate. Passwords and cookies are not shared. The Chrome extensions you install are installed by account. Thus you can customize which extensions you use with which account. While mildly annoying to have to install your favorite extension for each account you also ensure that the extension is working only with that account thus eliminating some conflict issues.

Switching Accounts

You can actually have multiple Google accounts open at the same time! Notice in my screenshot below I have at least 5 different Google accounts rocking at the same time. Each account is open in its own window.

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It's common knowledge that Google Apps is a great cloud-based tool for collaboration, but the recent Q&A feature in Google Slides really kicks it up a notch.

The benefits of the cloud are real. In fact, a 451 Research report we recently commissioned found that, for end users, the major benefits of cloud applications included enhanced data synchronization, improved collaboration, and less dependence on email.

Google Slides is no exception. With this interactive Q&A feature, you can collaborate with your audience by allowing them to submit questions and vote on them during Slides presentations. Here's how to use this handy feature.

In Slides, click the dropdown arrow next to Present in the top-right corner, and click Presenter view.

Click on Start new to start a presentation session.

You'll see a URL displayed as a header across the top of your presentation. This is the URL that attendees can use to submit questions based on your presentation.

When audience members visit that URL, they'll see a very simple interface where they can type a question into a box at the top of the screen. They have the option to ask the question anonymously if they don't want to be identified.

Audience questions will appear on your (the presenter's) screen in real-time. If you want to show a question to the audience, you can click on Present and the question will be displayed in your presentation for everyone to see. This really creates engagement between you and your audience.

Audience members can also vote up or down (using the thumbs up and down icons) for questions. This is useful for very large presentations where a presenter might only have time to answer a few questions, and can focus on the ones that receive the most votes.

A few notes from Google on this feature:

The Slides Q&A feature works on desktop computers, Android mobile devices, and iOS mobile devices.

You can only use Slides Q&A if you have edit or comment access to that Slides presentation.

By default, any user in your domain can submit a question. If your organization permits external sharing, you can allow external users to submit questions as well.

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Instead of droning on in your next presentation, liven it up by making it interactive and collaborative. With the Q&A feature in Slides, your audience can submit questions and vote on them during your presentation. Here's how to use this feature.

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You can have a file in Google Drive "live" in multiple folders. The paradigm shift, of course, is there is no such thing as folders. Folders are what are in filing cabinets. A virtual folder is actually a label. When you put a file in Google Drive into a Folder it is labeled with that folder name and removed from the view of My Drive. When you put a file in multiple folders, the file is not in multiple folders it really just has multiple labels.

Shift Z

This will give you the option to add the file to multiple folders.

Creating Files

Also, if you go to docs.google.com/create or slides.google.com/create or sheets.google.com/create a new file is created quickly, but it also is in My Drive, not a specific folder. Click the folder icon next to the file name or use the File menu to organize the document into a folder. Notice the blue button says "Move here." This places the document into a folder (labels it) and removes it from the My Drive view.

If you want to create a file in a specific folder, first go to Google Drive and open the folder. Then click the New button. This will create that file in that folder.

Press d

Hold down the Shift key and press Z. Notice that the button now says "Add here" and is green rather than the blue "Move here" button.

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A relatively new feature in Google Slides is the ability to link slides. What this means is if you have 2 Google Slides presentations you can connect the two slides. Create a slide in presentation A, copy the slide and paste it into Presentation B. You will be prompted upon pasting as to if you want to link the slides. Linking the slides would allow for changes in presentation A to be reflected in presentation B.

Linked Feedback Slides

I am a fan of using Google Slides for students showing their work. Slides provide a blank canvas that allows for multi-media, peer and instructor feedback, and collaboration. When each student has their own Google Slides presentation to show their work, it can be time-consuming to add additional slides to each student's slides. Linking slides can make this process significantly easier.

As it comes up that sharing examples or pushing additional information out to individual Google Slides, linked slides allow for easy sharing.

For example, in a class discussion or working with an individual student you may want to share to each student's Google Slides the example or comments. Editing a single slide in presentation A to add a text box or picture would update in presentation B for each student.

Steps to Create Linked Feedback Slides

1. Create a Google Slides for teacher feedback (Presentation A) and make the slides anyone with the link can view.

2. Create a Google Slides for student work (Presentation B)

3. Design the student slides (B) to allow for students to demonstrate their work.

4. Create several "blank" temporary slides in the teacher slides (A). Create one slide and then duplicate (Control D) multiple times.
Tip to put a placeholder on the blank slides that indicate "Click Update to view any potential updates."

5. Copy those feedback slides (A) into the student slides (B). Link the slides.
Tip: You can copy, paste and link all the slides at once.
Click on the first slide (A). Hold down the Shift key and click on the last slide to select all the slides. Use Control C to copy. In the student slides (B) paste (Control V). A single pop up asking to link slides will appear, indicate to link slides. This will apply to all slides pasted.

6. Duplicate the student slides for each student.
This is easy in Google Classroom by adding the student slides (B) to an assignment in Google Classroom and choosing "Make a copy for each student." If you are not a Google Classroom user you can distribute the slides (B) to students by replacing the end of the URL from /copy to /edit. Share the link with students that ends in /copy and each student will be prompted to make a copy.

7. As needed, edit a slide in the teacher slides (A).

8. Indicate to students to update the slide. This is done manually by the students. Students will see a symbol on the slides showing that the slides are linked. There is an arrow for students to click which will reveal a menu with the option to "Update."

When students click to "Update" they will be able to see the examples and additional information shared by their teacher.

Pre-Plan

The trick to utilizing the linked slides feature in Google Slides is to pre-plan. To create enough "blank" slides in presentation A and link them into the student slides to accommodate any potential updates and feedback you may want to share.

Snapshot

When working with students on paper, I recommend using quarter sheets of paper, you can easily add these examples to the teacher slides. Using the Google Slides app, open the teacher slides for the assignment and insert a photo right onto one of the blank slides. This makes it easy to share student examples with the class or to share examples you came up with an individual student or group of students.

Insert Image from Camera

Google has put back the webcam option for inserting images! Next to the image icon in the toolbar, notice the tiny triangle. Click on this to choose "Camera" as the method of inserting an image.

Snapshot Chrome Extension

If you are using a Chromebook, PC or Mac you can use my Webcam Snapshot Chrome extension to add pictures of student work and examples to the teacher slides (A). The image is saved to Google Drive. Add the image to the slide from Drive.

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When it comes to calculating things, don't do it by hand. I was standing in 110˚ heat yesterday as the ladies at the fireworks stand attempted 5 times to calculate my bill. I'm still not confident they calculated it correctly. Even when using a calculator it is too easy to accidentally type in a wrong value or lose track of where you're at. Even when confusion is not an issue, time is. Setting up a spreadsheet is faster when you need to do calculations for each student.

Rubrics

While I am personally not a fan of rubrics that put arbitrary percentages on categories that are treated as mutually exclusive, I know this is a popular style. Remember, a rubric score is not the same as a percentage. On a 4 point rubric, the possible scores should not be A, C, F and really low F. Using a spreadsheet for your rubric can make the score calculation faster.

Epic Rubric

My rubric template allows you to design a 4 point rubric and weight the categories. It then creates a copy of the rubric for each student on the roster allowing you to easily assess against the rubric and give comments. It then gathers all of the scores into a single roster making it easy to view everyone at once. It then will allow you to email a copy of each student's evaluation to the student and have it appear in their Google Drive.

Template

alicekeeler.com/rubrictab

Directions

Create a copy of the rubric template.

Roster

Copy and paste your roster along with email address into the first and second columns. You will need a valid email address for each student in order to send copies of the rubric. If a student does not have a valid email address, use your own email address.

Rubric

The 2nd tab is labeled "Edit This Rubric." Click on this to customize the rubric.

Student Name and Comments

On the rubric template leave the student name and comments spots blank. You will fill this in after you make a copy for each student.

1. Enter an assignment name in the yellow box in cell F1. This will be copied to each student and will be used to name the student copies later.

2. Set the points possible in cell D3.

3. Set the percentage for each category in row 8. By default, they are set at 100%, 85%, 75% and 65%.

4. List the criteria of the rubric in column C.

5. Set the weight of each of the criteria. By default each category is evenly weighted.
Trick, delete one of the percentages to have the rubric automatically tell you how many points you still need.

6. Click once and type (no need to delete) the description for each category at each level.

7. Add additional criteria and descriptions. The category weight and default score of 4 will automatically be added.

Add-On Menu

Use the Add-On menu to create a copy of the rubric for each student. Choose "RubricTab" and "Start." You will need to authorize the Add-on.

This should open a sidebar menu with some button choices. After your rubric is created you will want to choose "Create Rubrics."

Assess Students

Creating rubrics creates a copy of the rubric for each student. Click on the tabs along the bottom to assess each student.

By default each student has a rubric score of 4. Simply click one time on the cell in column A and type over the default value with a score of 3, 2, 1 or 0. No decimals. Enter in student comments into cell F3. The overall score is automatically calculated. Both percentage and points.

Go to the next tab and assess the next student.

Make a List

A new feature in my rubric template is to allow you to compile the rubric scores before emailing the scores to the students. In the sidebar menu, click the button to "Compile Rubrics."

For each student, their score and comments will be gathered into a single list on the roster tab.

Email Rubrics

After compiling all of the rubrics into a single list, you can share the rubric with each student. Choosing "Email Rubrics" in the sidebar will make a COPY of each student's rubric to a new spreadsheet. Students are NOT able to see the scores of other students. The new spreadsheet will be shared with the student and can be located in their Google Drive. The student will also receive an email with a link to the rubric.

Google Classroom

To share the rubric with students in Google Classroom, copy the link to the rubric found in column D of the roster and paste it into the private comments in Google Classroom for each student.

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These are the slides I presented at Educause 2014 for using Google Classroom with Higher Ed. The first slides are a demonstration of what Google Classroom looks like, followed by the top 10 list. Additional descriptions are in the slide notes: http://goo.gl/cdIUAX

1. Distribute Documents

2. Shift to Utilizing Google Docs and Collaboration

3. Share Lecture Notes and Presentation Slides

4. Collect Data from Students

5. No Downloading of Assignments

6. Work with Graduate Students

7. Create Research Groups

8. Create Lesson Groups with Assignments

9. Group Critique

10. In Class Activities

Google Classroom is a new product that allows for a teacher to create a virtual classroom space. This is not a replacement for an LMS. While there are some features that may seem similar to what an LMS such as Blackboard can do, it does not contain the features you would expect in an LMS. Google Classroom works nicely with your existing LMS. If your university has enabled Google Classroom you can find it at http://classroom.google.com.

What Google Classroom does is Google Drive management. If your school has Google Apps for Education (your students have a university version of Gmail), then your students have access to Google Drive. Google Classroom makes it easier to distribute Google Docs and resources and also easier to collect documents and resources from students.

Google Classroom is not restricted to students enrolled in your class, this means you can also utilize the features to work with colleagues for non classroom activities.

Earlier I posted a blog post on 20 things you can do with Google Classroom and a follow up post with 15 more things you can do with Google Classroom. These 35 things are specific to teaching in a classroom and would also be applicable for the Higher Ed classroom.

Guest blogger Mary Bennett works with professors at California State University Fresno and helps them to integrate Google Classroom with Blackboard. Here is her post on 10 reasons to introduce Blackboard to Google Classroom.

Here are some blog posts and videos on getting started with Google Classroom.

Additional blog posts on Google Classroom can be found at http://alicekeeler.com/classroom

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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. Call this assignment "Class Share Folder" or something along those lines. The advantage to this is the folder is automatically created in your Google Drive for the class you want to create a share folder for.

Set the due date to be the last day of school.

On the 2nd tab in Google Classroom is the option for "Students." Click on this. Check the checkbox that selects all students. Click on the "Email" button to start an email to everyone in the class.

Instead of sending the email you only want to copy the email addresses. Click on the email of the first student in the email group. Hold down the shift key. While holding down shift, click on the email of the last student in the email group. This should select ALL of 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. Click on the button that says "Folder" to go right to the "Class Share Folder" in Google Drive.

Share the folder by locating the breadcrumbs at the top of Google Drive. The last item in the breadcrumbs is the shared folder. Click on this to reveal a drop down menu of options for the folder. Choose "Share..."

Leave the setting as "Can Edit." Paste (Control V) the names of the students into the share settings.

Students will find this folder under "Incoming" in Google Drive. They will want to HOVER over the folder and choose to "Add to Drive." Direct them to add it to their "Classroom" folder.

Sub folders take on the permissions of the parent folder. If you move an assignment folder in Google Drive to the shared folder this will give all the students in the class access to the entire folder with editing rights.

While I can not set a folder to be "Can Comment" I do not stress too much about students messing up other students documents because they can always be reset through the revision history. I also have had multiple digital citizenship conversations with students prior to creating a shared folder with them.

For an assignment you've created in Google Classroom, go to that folder in Google Drive. (See steps above). From the breadcrumbs click on the arrow of the folder to reveal folder options. Choose to "Move to..."

Move to Shared Folder

Move the entire folder to the "Class Shared Folder."

Students are now able to locate the assignment folder by going to the shared folder in their own Google Drive. They should be able to locate the assignment folder inside the shared folder and comment on other student work.

Once the students have had the opportunity to provide peer feedback move the folder out of the shared folder. This will remove student access to the documents in the folder in one swoop.

If the students have turned in the document the teacher is no longer owner of the document and can not set sharing permissions. Students should give feedback and make corrections BEFORE they turn in the assignment to Google Classroom.

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A new feature in Google Classroom is to show the count of returned student work. YAY! This was on my Android Classroom app for awhile and I'm so happy to see it now on the browser version.

How to Return

Click on the assignment title to view the assessment screen. On the left hand side is a roster of your students. By default the students are sorted by status. Click on the checkbox next to "Done" to select that group of students. Then click on the RETURN button at the top.

Why Return

Returning student work acknowledges that they submitted the assignment. It also allows you to leave each student a thank you note.

Ownership

One thing I strongly dislike about Google Classroom is that it switches ownership of student documents when they turn in work. We are not trying to recreate paper, we are trying to create new opportunities for learning. Switching ownership is old school paper thinking.

When students turn in work they become VIEWERS OF THEIR OWN WORK. The teacher is made the OWNER of the STUDENT'S work. Personally, I find this offensive. Students are the owners of their work. We assess THEIR work but it is THEIR's.

Comments

When a student is a viewer of their work they are unable to see any feedback comments left in the document. This makes learning worse. We know that fast high quality feedback improves learning. Even better is when we can get that feedback to students before the due date. The impact of your feedback is highest when students are not mentally done with a task. You must Return the work to the student in order for them to regain ownership of the document and be able to see the comments.

Feedback Loop

If we want to make learning better we need to move past: Do the assignment, get points, do another assignment. Students need to be able to respond to feedback. To improve learning we want to allow students to attempt, get feedback, and attempt again. This feedback look was challenging to impossible with paper. Using digital documents we can truly come alongside students to engage in this feedback look to improve learning.

Our job is not to distribute points; it is to help students learn.

Google Apps documents allows for that feedback loop to be feasible. This is how Google Docs makes learning better than paper.

Since students turning in work shuts down that feedback loop, it is imperative that we be rabid about quickly returning work to students.

Return Return Return

This new feature to show the number of returned documents makes it easier for me to make sure I return quickly! I like to return almost as soon as a student submits. My feedback comment... "Returning editing rights."

Clean Up Your Google Drive

Personally I find it frustrating that when Google Classroom switches ownership to me as the teacher that now I have a bunch of documents in Google Drive that says I am the owner when it is really student work with the same title. Returning work to students solves this.

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This is a game changer, from your mobile device you can record video straight to Google Classroom.

On your mobile, create an assignment and tap on the paper clip icon at the top. The last option for attachments is "Record Video." This is not add a video you already made, but rather to record video now right into Classroom. And by that I mean right into Google Drive since nothing actually lives in Classroom.

I am in an Uber right now in London, UK and was able to add a short video right into this Classroom assignment. Talk about being able to teach from anywhere!!

Notice the MP4 linked in the assignment. So super easy!!

Students Can Submit Video

When on mobile, students can use the app to submit video. They tap on the assignment, tap on "Student work," and tap on "add attachment." One of the options for students is to "Record video." Flip the camera around and students can record themselves orally demonstrating their learning.

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This is a game changer, from your mobile device you can record video straight to Google Classroom. Record Video to Assignment On your mobile, create an assignment and tap on the paper clip icon at the top. The last option for attachments is "Record Video."

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10 ways to make Classroom and Forms Easier

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10 ways we're making Classroom and Forms easier for teachers this school year

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It is now significantly easier to utilize Google Forms in Google Classroom. Simply attach a Form using the Google Drive attachment option when making a post. Students are automatically linked to the live view of the Form. For the teacher, Classroom provides a link right in the stream to view the results in Google Sheets.

Google Forms is possibly the best Google App. Before Google Classroom, Google Forms was the main tool to go paperless. Students fill out a form and the results are displayed in one place on a spreadsheet. This makes it easier to assess student work. Having all student answers in a single list in the spreadsheet means you can see everyone's answers in the same spot. No papers to collect and shuffle. Spreadsheet results can be sorted and filtered.

Create a Form

Like all Google Docs, you need to create your Google Form before you attach it in Google Classroom. Start with Google Drive and click on the "New" button. Under "More" is the option to create a Google Form.

You can also get to Google Forms by going to forms.google.com. This gives you a filtered list of just your Google Forms. You can also click the plus icon in the bottom right hand corner to create a Google Form.

In Google Classroom create a new post: Assignment, Announcement, or Question.

In the attachment options at the bottom, click on the Google Drive icon. Locate the Google Form you created and attach it.

Unlike other attachments you are NOT given the option for view, edit or make a copy. The Google Form is attached right into the post. If you click on the Form title it will open the edit screen of the Google Form. When students click on the title of the Google Form it will open the Form for them to fill out. In the stream, you are able to link easily to the spreadsheet of responses.

Students will link to the Form and fill it out. You are able to view their results instantly as they submit in the spreadsheet.

Students filling out the Form will have it marked as done in the Google Classroom assignment.

After submitting the Form, the confirmation screen links back to the assignment for the student. Choosing "OPEN ASSIGNMENT" takes the student to the turn in screen of the assignment.

If the post contains additional attachments besides the single Google Form, the student will need to manually mark the assignment as done or "TURN IN." This includes documents, additional Forms, links or YouTube videos.

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It is now significantly easier to utilize Google Forms in Google Classroom. Simply attach a Form using the Google Drive attachment option when making a post. Students are automatically linked to the live view of the Form. For the teacher, Classroom provides a link right in the stream to view the results in Google Sheets.

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Note: This blog post is for the old Google Forms. The process is the SAME but the clicks are different. Check out this updated blog post.

Hopefully, you have figured out by now that Google Forms is the best thing since sliced bread. If you are trying to be paperless, Google Forms is a must have. Not only are you paperless but all of your information is typed and in a single location. No more shuffling or losing papers. The data from the Google Form goes to a Google spreadsheet. Once your information is in a spreadsheet the things you can do with it are nearly limitless. How many times have you dug through a stack of papers to find one kid's name only to confirm that it is missing. Instead use Control F (Find) on the spreadsheet and know in seconds if the student submitted answers or not.

Now that you have made all of these awesome Google Forms and spreadsheets this year, how do you get ready for next year? Do not remake all of your forms, you can reuse them!

You can find all of your Google Forms by going to Google Drive ( http://drive.google.com) and doing a search to locate all of my Forms that I edited this year.

type:form owner:me after:2014-08-14

In the search, I look for Forms that I created and were edited after the start of the school year.

In the Google Form edit screen use the "Responses" menu to "Delete all responses." This only deletes the responses from the Google Form. This does NOT delete the data on the spreadsheet. Google Forms sends a copy of the responses to a Google Spreadsheet, those responses will remain on the spreadsheet.

In the edit screen of the Google Form, go back to the "Responses" menu and choose to "Unlink form." This will disconnect the spreadsheet from the Google Form. At this point, the new responses would only be captured in the Google Form.

Make a Copy

I like to make a copy of the spreadsheet with the responses and add the school year to the title. This allows me to archive the answers. I have an archive folder I drag these copies into. This is optional.

Reconnect

Once you've unlinked the spreadsheet you will want to connect back to the spreadsheet. You can connect the Google Form to any spreadsheet you have. I like to reconnect it back to the same spreadsheet I was using before. A new tab will be created and responses will go onto the new tab. Your old responses are on a different tab. You can delete that tab if you desire.

Once you've deleted responses from the Google Form and reconnected the Form to the spreadsheet your Form is fresh as a daisy and ready to be reused for next year.

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If you have ever clicked the plus icon to create a new tab and renamed the tab multiple times you know how tedious this can be when using a spreadsheet. I wrote a script that allows you to take a list and create a tab for each item in the list. I previously posted the RosterTab script for Google Sheets. I have updated the script to give you the option to delete the original list.

The original RosterTab creates and names a tab for each item in column A. I have added ListToTabs to the RosterTab menu. This allows you take your list and create a tab for each item in the list. Since you were utilizing ListToTabs to save time in creating and naming tabs the sheet that contains the list is not needed. After creating the tabs, ListToTabs deletes the first sheet.

To utilize either ListToTabs or RosterTab start with the RosterTab template:

Type or paste a list of names or items in Column A of the first sheet. At the top, next to the Help menu, is the RosterTab menu. Choose ListToTabs to create sheets for each item in the list and to delete the list. Use the RosterTab option to keep the list.

If you would like to have a template on each of the sheets rather than creating blank sheets try out TemplateTab.

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If you have ever clicked the plus icon to create a new tab and renamed the tab multiple times you know how tedious this can be when using a spreadsheet. I wrote a script that allows you to take a list and create a tab for each item in the list.

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I had a friend using a Google Sheets spreadsheet to have students sign out and in for the bathroom instead of the paper sign out. The problem became the amount of scrolling after many students had signed out. I created a template to help with this.

http://tinyurl.com/bathroomsignout

After making a copy of the template look for the "Bathroom" menu near the "Help" menu.

The menu has 3 options: Check Out, Check In, and Sort.

When students sign out for the bathroom they select an empty cell in column A. Using the "Bathroom" menu, the student chooses "Check Out." This will place the date and time into the cell. The student would then put their period and name into columns C and D.

When students return from the bathroom they select the cell in column B. Again using the "Bathroom" menu, the student chooses "Check In." This places the date and time of the students return in column B.

Choosing "Sort" from the "Bathroom" menu sorts the entries in reverse order. Most recent at the top. This also inserts 10 rows at the top to give students room to sign out to the bathroom without having to scroll. Students can use the "Sort" option to insert more rows as well.

Apparently the spreadsheet defaults to the west coast where I live. This is a Google Sheets setting, not something in my code. CLICK HERE to change your Google Sheets settings to your local time zone.

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I had a friend using a Google Sheets spreadsheet to have students sign out and in for the bathroom instead of the paper sign out. The problem became the amount of scrolling after many students had signed out. I created a template to help with this.

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Previously I had created a template for creating rubrics to assess students. http://alicekeeler.com/rubrictab2 Assuming you may use rubrics for multiple assignments, I created ListRubrics to make this process easier.

RubricTab is an Add-On script I wrote to make assessing with a rubric a snap.

Design the rubric

Use the Add-On menu to call up a sidebar of options.

Paste a roster of your student names and email address

Run the script to create rubrics for each student

Assess each student. RubricTab does the math for you.

Run the script to email rubrics to students. They will receive a copy of their assessment.

View the roster tab to see a list of each student, their number of points, percentage, comments, how students scored on each category, and a link to their copy of the rubric.

ListRubrics allows you to create a list of your assignments that use a rubric and quickly create a copy of the RubricTab for each assignment.

http://alicekeeler.com/listrubrics

In the sidebar, choose the "Start a List" button. This will create a new tab in your spreadsheet to allow you to list your assignments.

After creating a list of assignments, click on the "Create Rubric Templates" button in the sidebar menu. This will generate a template for each assignment and link to it right in the spreadsheet. Be patient, it can take a few minutes to generate each rubric.

In column D a link to a rubric was created for each assignment. Click on each one to edit the rubric.

Use the Add-On menu select "RubricTab" and then select "Create rubrics." This will reveal the sidebar.

After clicking on the "Create Rubrics" button, a tab is created for each student on the roster. Click on the tabs along the bottom. For each student give them comments in the comment box and change the default values of 4 to the appropriate rubric assessment.

After assessing all students, click on the "Email Rubrics" button in the sidebar. This will create a COPY of each students rubric assessment and email it to them. It also places this rubric assessment in their Google Drive.

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Previously I had created a template for creating rubrics to assess students. http://alicekeeler.com/rubrictab2 Assuming you may use rubrics for multiple assignments, I created ListRubrics to make this process easier. RubricTab RubricTab is an Add-On script I wrote to make assessing with a rubric a snap.

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Google Drive: Students Turn In a Folder - Teacher Tech

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If you are having students organize multiple work samples and files into a folder, you may wonder how it can be organized and submitted. I have written a script to allow students to submit a folder. Template http://alicekeeler.com/turninfolder How it Works Distribute a copy of the template to students.

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A teacher was having her students work on an ongoing project where the students would save multiple documents to a folder in Google Drive. To make this process easier, I wrote a Google Apps Script file to automatically create and share the folders with the students.

alicekeeler.com/makefolders

The template above will prompt you to make a copy of a spreadsheet. Rename the spreadsheet to something meaningful. Paste your class roster into column A and the student email addresses into column B.

Folder Maker Add-On

Use the Add-On menu to locate "Folder Maker."

Press the button in the sidebar menu to generate a folder for each student in your Google Drive.

In the spreadsheet the link to each folder is created. This gives you an easy way to access each students folder.

Since each folder is only shared with the teacher and the single student, sharing the list of links with the class does not jeopardize student privacy. Students can find their name on the list and click on their link. Students can add this folder to their Google Drive to make it easy for them to add documents to the folder. Any documents added to the folder will automatically be shared with the teacher.

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A teacher was having her students work on an ongoing project where the students would save multiple documents to a folder in Google Drive. To make this process easier, I wrote a Google Apps Script file to automatically create and share the folders with the students.

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One request I am often asked about Google Classroom is how to create documents for small groups. If you create a copy of a document for each student then each group member receives a copy, which can be confusing. I have created a script that will assign students into random groups (or non random) and create a copy of a template document for each group.

http://www.alicekeeler.com/groupdocs

To create random groups click on the "Make groups" button in the sidebar.

For each group a template document will be created for students to collaborate on. Create a Google text Doc, Google Slides, Google Sheets, or Google Drawing in Google Drive. Format the document to structure the group activity, or leave it blank.

Students can not submit documents they do not own. The group documents are owned by you, the teacher. Students will not add the documents into the submission screen. Instead the students will simply mark as done. The document is easily accessible from the spreadsheet for assessment. Open each group document from the spreadsheet and leave feedback in Google Classroom.
Note: The code for column C can be anything. Perhaps a number or letter to signify that students are in the same group. It may be a status level such as beginner, intermediate or advanced. The code may be a group name such as "chupacabras" and "coyotes." The script will sort the students by the code before assigning to a group.
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One request I am often asked about Google Classroom is how to create documents for small groups. If you create a copy of a document for each student then each group member receives a copy, which can be confusing. I have created a script that will assign students into random groups (or non random) and ...

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When starting a class discussion I am a big advocate for starting it digitally. Getting initial input on a digital platform gives every student, in particular the quiet students, a voice. Giving students a few minutes to thoughtfully consider their answer will elicit higher quality responses.

There are many digital platforms to allow students to submit their answer to a discussion prompt. My favorites are Google Forms and Google Sheets spreadsheets.

Create a Google Form with a discussion prompt and provide the link in Google Classroom. Using a Google Form allows for the students initial answers to not be influenced by other students. Once the students have responded you can display the responses and use those to guide the conversation.

Creating a generic Google Form allows you to reuse the Form, have discussions on the fly, and to have multiple discussion questions in a single setting. If you create a generic discussion Form provide the link in the "About" tab of Google Classroom. This way students can easily find the discussion link whenever you are conducting a discussion during class.

Sample

In this sample Google Form I used a "Paragraph style" question to prompt for the student response. I also asked for the students first and last name. You may want to make your discussions anonymous and leave those two questions off. To use this template, you will need to use the File menu to make a copy.

I like to use Google Sheets to facilitate discussions. I will create a spreadsheet in Google Drive and add it to an assignment in Google Classroom with permissions of "Students can edit file."

I create a discussion topic on different tabs of the spreadsheet. The students click on the spreadsheet in Google Classroom and go to the first tab. Each student finds their own cell to respond in. I am then able to grab and regroup student comments to identify patterns in student responses. We use these responses to further the discussion. Using a spreadsheet allows every students comment to be shared with the entire class. Every student gets a voice.

Go to the Next Tab

I will have set up several discussion topics in the same spreadsheet. After we discuss one question I announce "Go to the next tab!" and all the students start putting in their ideas on the next topic.

Not only does this give every student a voice, but there is a record of the discussion ideas. The spreadsheet can be referred back to. If the discussion is around brainstorming for a particular unit, say on MacBeth, then this crowdsourced document can be used as a resource by all of the students for them to write their MacBeth essay. I love how students continue to add to the spreadsheet as we discuss the topic verbally. This acts as a place to take collaborative notes.

I created a template for spreadsheet discussions. Click here to create a copy of the spreadsheet template. On the first tab create a list of discussion topics in column A. Click on the button I created to automatically create a tab for each discussion topic. Once the tabs are created delete the first tab.

In Google Classroom attach the spreadsheet you just created into an assignment as "Students can edit file."

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Google Classroom: Giving Quiet Students a Voice - Teacher Tech

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When starting a class discussion I am a big advocate for starting it digitally. Getting initial input on a digital platform gives every student, in particular the quiet students, a voice. Giving students a few minutes to thoughtfully consider their answer will elicit higher quality responses.

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If you give a daily warm-up, you can use Google Classroom to facilitate the administration. Create a generic Google Form. Link to the live Form view in the "About" tab of Google Classroom. Have students use the same form every day to fill out the "5 a day."

Go to Google Drive and create a Google Form for your daily warm up. In order to re-use the Google Form every day make the questions generic. Ask for the answer to Question #1, Question #2, etc... Use "Paragraph text" for the response options. If you want to share the warm-up form with multiple teachers, create a question type of choose from a list to allow the student to choose their teacher.

View sample warm up Google Form: https://goo.gl/ssoX7j

If you would like to make a copy of the above Google Form warm-up template click here to view the edit screen. Use the File menu to make a copy.

Since you will use the same Google Form for the daily warm-up, you can place the link to the Form in the "About" tab of Google Classroom. The About tab allows you to display course information and also to attach resources that will perpetuate all school year. For example attach the syllabus, link to a Google Hangout for office hours, and link to the daily warm-up.

Click on "Add materials..." to add the link to the Google Form. After creating a Google Form, simply click on the Google Drive icon when creating the About page materials.

Title the material "Daily Warm-Up Link."

Daily, the students will click on the "About" tab to access the Warm-Up. This allows you to not have to repost the link to the Google Form every day.

Since the Google Form is generic, you will need to display the questions in another location besides the Google Form. You can write the questions on the white board. You can place the questions under the document camera. You can write the questions into a Google Doc and attach them in an announcement or assignment in the Google Classroom stream. One tip is to create a Google Doc that you daily update, attach the Google Doc to the same Warm-Up materials post on the About tab. Change the Google Doc, updates are automatically reflected in Google Classroom.

Students will reference the posted questions and answer in the Google Form.

Since the Google Form is generic and collects different answers each day there is no easy way to look at the spreadsheet of responses and know what the question was.

Every day before the students answer the warm up, fill out the Google Form with the Questions. This will place the questions into the spreadsheet just above the student responses for that day. In the "First Name" and "Last Name" fields type in "Monday" and "Questions" to identify the row with the questions for the day.

If you would like. Fill out the Google Form again with the Answers. This gives you answer key right in the spreadsheet of responses. In the "First Name" and "Last Name" fields type in "Answer" and "Key."

Instead of collecting stacks of papers every morning all student answers go into a single spreadsheet. Every day the students answers to the warm-up go into the same spreadsheet. You can sort the spreadsheet by the students name to see a pattern of their work. Since students respond in a Google Form, you can view their responses as they hit submit. This allows you to be more responsive to adjust your instruction based on student answers.

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If you give a daily warm-up, you can use Google Classroom to facilitate the administration. Create a generic Google Form. Link to the live Form view in the "About" tab of Google Classroom. Have students use the same form every day to fill out the "5 a day."

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Yes, students should be collaborating. G Suite is designed around collaboration so this makes students working together a lot easier. Weirdly, Google Classroom is not designed for group work. So we have to hack it. Students can not turn in work they do not own. Also, I don't want the same thing submitted four times, I want it once. Here are some hacks for you to consider:

Reflection is an important part of the learning process. After students complete a group project it is a good idea to have them reflect on the process and to report on how the collaboration went. Google Forms are perfect for this. Since the information from a Google Form can go to a single spreadsheet you can then use the spreadsheet to record scores and observations. Copy and paste for group members.

Template

alicekeeler.com/groupreflection

Only Link to Form

In Google Classroom when you link to a Google Form it will automatically "Mark as done" for the student.... IF there is nothing else linked in the assignment.

If you click on that paper clip, drive icon, YouTube video, or link icon when creating the assignment (other than to add the Google Form) then the assignment will NOT automatically "Mark As Done" when the students fill out the form.

Select Students

Another way to handle group work is you COULD create an assignment for a select group of students and attach a file as "Students can edit file" which gives that group access to that document. But honestly, not my favorite hack. You then have to repeat this per group. If you have 6 groups you have 6 of the same assignment in YOUR Stream. Students only see the one they are assigned to in their Stream. Students can not see who is included in the group just by selecting certain students for the assignment.

Link in Private Comments

Google Classroom does not allow students to turn in work they do not own (facepalm), which of course hinders collaboration. Easy hack, link to the documents in the private comments.

Copy Docs

I have an Add-on Script I made to create a copy of a document per group. On the first tab write the group names. Such as Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, etc... use the "Create Copies" menu, next to the Help menu. This will create a copy per group. You can attach into Google Classroom as "Students can edit file." See blog post for more directions.

Template
alicekeeler.com/copydocsclasses
Group Docs Maker

Group Docs Maker kicks it up a notch and shares the copy of the group doc with group members. You only need to link to the spreadsheet with group members listed and the link to their collaborative document. Students only need to mark as done in Google Classroom. See blog post for more directions.

Google Classroom- Turn in Group Work with a Google Form

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Yes, students should be collaborating. G Suite is designed around collaboration so this makes students working together a lot easier. Weirdly, Google Classroom is not designed for group work. So we have to hack it. Students can not turn in work they do not own.

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Things that make me scowly is too many clicks and inefficient workflows. As teachers, we usually have to repeat our actions 30-150 times depending on how many students we have. While doing something once may be no big deal, does it scale? I found most of the screenshot tools required multiple steps to get the screenshot to the student. I developed QuickShare Screenshot to be fast and secure. QuickShare Screenshot saves only to your Google Drive.

Install the Chrome Extension

Updated January 23rd, 2017 Click Here.

If you previously installed QuickShare Screenshot you may want to uninstall and reinstall to get the latest updates (bug fixes).

Google Classroom Private Comments

I am convinced that private comments in Google Classroom are one of the best things ever. The quality of my interactions with my students has shot way up. Instead of comments scribbled on the side of a paper or PDF it is conversations with students. The conversations are easy to find in each assignment on Google Classroom.

To find private comments in Google Classroom start by clicking on the assignment title to reveal the assessment screen.

Click on a student's name on the left-hand side.

On the bottom right is a place to add private comments (conversations).

QuickShare Screenshot

The Chrome extension QuickShare Screenshot will take a screenshot (gee thanks Alice) and save it to Google Drive. By default, the screenshot will be private. You will need to go to Google Drive and locate the QuickShare folder and change the sharing permissions to "Anyone with the link can view."

To use the QuickShare Screenshot Chrome extension you would click on the extension icon in the shelf next to the Omnibox and choose "Take full screen" or "Take partial screen."

The link to the screenshot is automatically copied to your clipboard.

Feedback Screenshot

In Google Classroom when leaving a student a private comment simply use Control-V to paste the link to the screenshot.

The student will see the live hyperlink to view the screenshots left in the private comments.

Google Classroom Screenshots

Google Classroom Screenshots

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Things that make me scowly is too many clicks and inefficient workflows. As teachers, we usually have to repeat our actions 30-150 times depending on how many students we have. While doing something once may be no big deal, does it scale?

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Google Classroom once again released some new features yesterday! Now when students submit an assignment late you will receive a notification on your phone if you have them enabled. You will also receive an email that says "Submitted late."

Late Work

Sometimes students turn things in after the due date, Google Classroom notes this in the corner of the assignment for the student. However, if you've gone through the assignment already it would not come to your attention that the student needs their work reviewed. Until now.

Note: I recommend you have students ALWAYS leave a private comment when submitting something late. It will generate an extra email but I like to encourage students to communicate what is going on. I usually need a reminder that I said it was okay for them to turn in something late "remember we talked." To me, the best feature of Google Classroom is the private comments. This allows for conversations with students that can significantly increase your ability to reach students and help them to learn. Encouraging students to consistently use the private comments helps students to feel it is okay to communicate when they are struggling.

Gmail Notification

A student submitting late work will generate a notification to your phone if you have the app and notifications turned on. Since I also get a Gmail notification I personally felt it was overkill and double notification so I turned off the phone notifications.

Set a Gmail Filter

I recommend you set up a filter for Gmail notifications to create a label for the latework so you can more easily find the assignments when you are ready.

1. Checkbox one of the "Submitted Late:" emails in Gmail.

2. Click on the "More" button at the top.

3. Choose "Filter messages like these."

4. Delete out the default "From" email. You are going to filter by "Submitted Late:" not by email address.

5. Under Subject type in "Submitted Late:"

6. Click on "Create filter with this search."

7. Choose what you want to have happen to those emails. You may want them to skip your inbox all together. This would allow you to set a time that you handle latework.

8. Click the "Apply the label" checkbox. If you do not already have a latework label, create one.

9. Create your filter! Click on the blue "Create filter" button.

Don't Be A Jerk

A word of caution. Before we had digital submissions we did not have due dates to the minute (other than the start of class). In life, there is RARELY a need to have something turned in exactly to the minute. In fact, when you run to a business and you just barely miss closing, you might be banging on the door hoping they let you in anyways. You're mad when they shrug at you from behind the glass. One of the most important things we do as educators is to build relationships with students. Not accepting late work or marking off points when it is barely late has the potential of students thinking you are a jerk. Remember, we are here for the students not to distribute points.

No matter how justified you are, if you turn kids off from learning that is the opposite of your job.

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Google Classroom - Late Work Notifications Google Classroom once again released some new features yesterday! Now when students submit an assignment late you will receive a notification on your phone if you have them enabled. You will also receive an email that says "Submitted late."

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Using Private Comments in Google Classroom takes almost no tech skills, yet can be one of the most transformative things you do. I have found my students' motivation to have increased significantly this semester simply by using Private Comments as the medium for some assignments. What makes this transformation is that comments are now conversations.

Where Are Private Comments?

To find Private Comments click on the assignment title for any assignment in the Stream. Notice on the left-hand side of the assessment screen there is a roster. Click on any students name to locate the Private Comments.

Who Commented?

On the roster on the left-hand side, you can see a preview of the comments conversation. One challenge I have found is knowing if the comments are the student's comment or my comment. Too many times I click on a student's name only to find out that I already replied to that student. That comment is my comment!

Reply With Your Initials

I am now in the habit of replying to Private Comments by starting with my initials. This allows me to review the roster for an assignment and quickly scan for comments that do NOT start with my initials. I need to reply to those.

Students Start with Keeler

Not that I'm super successful at getting them to consistently do it, but I ask my students start their Private Comments with Keeler: if they are wanting a reply. Specifically that they are addressing me and not just answering the prompt.

Control F

Using the keyboard shortcut Control F (Command F on a Mac), I can find text on the page. I usually use Control F to find students fast in the roster, but today I figured out it works awesome for my initials. When I use Control F and search for AK, my initials light up like a Christmas tree! I can then more easily scan the roster to look for comments that are NOT lit up.

If you have your students specifically address you with your name first, you can also do a Control F to find where your name is mentioned on the page. This helps to direct you faster to those comments that students are specifically seeking your response.

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Using Private Comments in Google Classroom takes almost no tech skills, yet can be one of the most transformative things you do. I have found my students' motivation to have increased significantly this semester simply by using Private Comments as the medium for some assignments. What makes this transformation is that comments are now conversations.

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Google Classroom creates in Google Drive a folder for each class and each assignment. This can make for a lot of folders after you've been using Google Classroom for awhile.

Move The Folders

Tip to create an archive folder in the Classroom folder. You can drag your past class folders into the archive folder. There is no damage done by renaming folders or moving the folders.

Move Folders, Press Z

There are a few ways to get your old class folders into the archive folder. Click on the folder you wish to move and just drag it into the archive folder.

Click on the folder and press Z to move the folder.

Click on the folder and use the move folder icon under the 3 dots icon in the toolbar to move the folder into the archive folder.

Rename Folders

Click on a folder and press N to rename the folder. You can also use the "Rename" icon under the 3 dots menu.

Archive Google Classroom Class

You can archive an old class in Google Classroom from the class tiles page (home page). Click on the 3 dots icon and choose "Archive." Note that this does NOT archive the folder in Google Drive. You will need to do this manually. Archiving a class allows you to reuse posts from that class in your new class but not have to see the class in your class tiles.

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Google Classroom creates in Google Drive a folder for each class and each assignment. This can make for a lot of folders after you've been using Google Classroom for awhile. Tip to create an archive folder in the Classroom folder. You can drag your past class folders into the archive folder.

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In Google Classroom when you create an assignment where students submit work a folder is created in Google Drive. If you assign the same assignment to multiple sections, a folder will be created for each section.

A feature of Google Classroom that I really like is that all the work students submit through Google Classroom are neatly organized into a folder in Google Drive. I can go straight to Google Drive to review student work and provide feedback. With multiple class sections that is multiple folders I need to open.

The easiest way to find all of the folders for an assignment is to use the Google Drive search features.

type:folder assignment title

Type "type:folder" to filter your search for folders. Then include the keywords of the assignment you are searching for. I number all of my assignments so when I am looking to assess #026 I type into the search box type:folder #026. This returns all 3 folders for my 3 sections I assigned the assignment to.

If you want to move all of the assignments together you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift Z to ADD the folders or assignments to a single folder. This does not move the folders from their class folders. By using the Shift Z method, the folders reside in two places.

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In Google Classroom when you create an assignment where students submit work a folder is created in Google Drive. If you assign the same assignment to multiple sections, a folder will be created for each section. A feature of Google Classroom that I really like is that all the work students submit through Google Classroom are ...

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Reflection is an important part of the learning process. One tool I developed for reflection is the Chrome extension SlideShot. It automatically takes a screenshot every minute. Students have the option to manually add screenshots as well. Clicking finish on the extension automatically creates a Google Slides presentation of the screenshots. Each slide contains a text box that allows students to reflect on what they were strategizing during that screenshot.

Webcam Record

Now out is my newest Chrome extension, Alice Keeler Webcam Record, that will allow students to record using their webcam for 30 seconds. The recording is automatically added to Google Drive and the link to the recording is placed on the clipboard for easy sharing.

Webcam Record is available in the Chrome Webstore: install it here.

SlideShot + Webcam Record

Since Webcam Record saves directly to Google Drive students can easily add video reflections to their Google Slides SlideShot presentation.

Factoring Puzzle

In this example, I started with a factoring puzzle ( alicekeeler.com/factoringpuzzle). The objective being to figure out what 3 numbers multiplied to obtain the edge numbers. This requires strategic thinking.
Link to Slides

Students start by clicking on the SlideShot Chrome extension to start the screenshot process.

Students make a copy of the puzzle by going to alicekeeler.com/factoringpuzzle or through Google Classroom if the teacher provided each student a copy.

Students use the "Make Puzzle" menu to create a new puzzle.

As student strategizes by placing guesses for numbers in the puzzle, it is recommended that the student manually takes screenshots from the SlideShot Chrome extension.

Student chooses "Finish" in the SlideShot.

Google Slides are automatically created.

Student can choose to add a title slide.

Student views a slide with a screenshot.

Student can type an explanation in the provided text box or

Using the Webcam Record Chrome extension student can start a webcam recording.

The video saves directly to Drive.

Use the Insert menu to insert Video.

Student chooses Google Drive as the location of the video.

Since the video was just recorded to Google Drive the easiest way to locate it is by clicking on "Recent."

The student selects the webcam recording they just did.

Resize the video on the slide to the desired size.

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SlideShot + Webcam Record: Reflect on Thinking - Teacher Tech

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Reflection is an important part of the learning process. One tool I developed for reflection is the Chrome extension SlideShot. It automatically takes a screenshot every minute. Students have the option to manually add screenshots as well. Clicking finish on the extension automatically creates a Google Slides presentation of the screenshots.

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When a student joins Google Classroom a folder is created in Google Drive named "Classroom." Within this folder is a folder for each class. All of the students work for that class is in the class folder in Google Drive.

Easily Find Work

Instead of clicking on the title of the course, students instead click on the folder icon. All of their work for that class is right there.

About Tab

Assign Students to Open Folder

Students occasionally tell me they can not find their work. Try assigning students to locate the folder icon in Google Classroom.

Press I

Sort by Last Modified

Press I

Unlink Documents

One thing that drives me bonkers about Google Classroom is ownership switching. When a student turns in an assignment the teacher becomes the owner of the document and the student is switched to viewer. This means the student is UNABLE TO SEE ANY COMMENTS ON THE DOCUMENT while the teacher is the owner. This means it is really important that the teacher "RETURNS" the documents to the students promptly.

Switching ownership also causes issues when the work is long term. Students should be "persevering in problem-solving" meaning, returning back to the same work and adding to it with new information over a period of time. Students lose editing access when they turn in work and they lose access to feedback conversations left in the document which are essential for learning.

Hack

It is important to understand that documents in Google Classroom are NOT attached, they are linked. Removing a document from Google Classroom does NOT remove the document (or the sharing permissions) from Google Drive. On the assignment submission page, students simply click on the X of the linked document to unlink it from Google Classroom. This allows them to "Mark as Done" so the assignment is not late and allows the student to keep working on, for example, their journal.

Find it In Google Drive

Both the teacher and the student can find the unlinked student document in the Classroom folder in Google Drive. Even though the student unlinked, for example, their journal, they can easily return to the journal to add to it by clicking on the folder icon on the class tile or on the About tab.

The teacher can easily find the students journal by clicking on the assignment title in the Stream and clicking on the folder icon for that assignment. All student "journals" will be in that folder whether or not they are linked in Google Classroom. Using the Info pane (press i) or sorting by "Last Modified" the teacher can easily see which students have been working on their "journal" and provide feedback.

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Google Classroom: Students, Easily Find Your Work - Teacher Tech

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When a student joins Google Classroom a folder is created in Google Drive named "Classroom." Within this folder is a folder for each class. All of the students work for that class is in the class folder in Google Drive. Instead of clicking on the title of the course, students instead click on the folder icon.

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We have all been in the situation where a student has a legitimate reason for needing to turn in an assignment after the due date. The problem is that Google Classroom is unforgiving with the "Late" flag. This really stresses students out. "But Keeler, you said I could turn it in on Friday" Telling the student to ignore the "Late" flag still causes stress in the student.

Reuse Post

To extend the deadline for select students click on the plus icon in the bottom right and choose "Reuse post." Reuse the assignment that you want to extend for some students.

Do NOT check the checkbox to duplicate "attachments." Nothing is attached in Google Classroom, it is all linked from Google Drive. Making copies makes a mess of your Google Drive.

No Copies

IF the original assignment created a copy for each student then you probably do NOT want to make new copies for the extended assignment. When reusing, click the X to remove the linked document. You would only remove the documents that are set as "Make a copy for each student" since the student already has a copy from the original assignment. Any resources set as "View" or "Edit" should remain when reusing.

Select Students

On the reused assignment, locate the "All students" at the top of the edit box. Clicking on the checkbox for "All students" in the list deselects all the students in the class. Selectively click on the students who need the extended due date.

Select the new adjusted due date and post. This reused assignment will ONLY appear in the Stream of the students who you selected.

Unselect Students

Go back to the original assignment that was assigned to all students with the original due date. Click on the 3 dots on the upper right of the assignment and choose "Edit." Also locate where it says "All students" in the assignment. Leaving all students selected, deselect the individual students who you extended the due date for. This will remove the original assignment (and the Late flag) from those students Streams.

Work

If the student had already started the assignment, the work is still in Google Drive. Even though the original assignment is removed the work is not missing. The student will want to click on "Add" in the new assignment and choose from "Drive." The student should be able to add their document from the original assignment to the new assignment.

Alternative Solution

Remember nothing is attached in Google Classroom, they are only linked. The students work is linked into the assignment; stored in Google Drive. One trick I have students do is UNLINK the document in Google Classroom so they can "Mark as done." This allows them to turn it in and avoid the "Late" flag. You will not be able to find the students work linked in Google Classroom anymore, but it is safely located in the assignment folder in Google Drive. Click on the folder icon under the "Done| Not Done" count in the assignment assessment screen.

Private Comments

When extending a students deadline leave a note in private comments so that you and the student know that the student has extended time until ___.

Hashtag

When the student is done with the assignment ask them to use a hashtag in the private comments to indicate that they are completed with the assignment. Determine your own hashtag system. You may want students to use the hashtag #turnin to indicate they are turning something in after the due date but it is not late.

When students post a private comment you receive an email notification. Filter your email for the hashtags.

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Google Classroom: Extend the Due Date for Some - Teacher Tech

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We have all been in the situation where a student has a legitimate reason for needing to turn in an assignment after the due date. The problem is that Google Classroom is unforgiving with the "Late" flag. This really stresses students out.

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Private Comments in Google Classroom have become my priority. It's an opportunity to give students individual and specific attention and feedback. Having conversations about learning makes learning better. I start with my Gmail and see that a student has left a Private Comment on an Assignment. Sometimes I read the feedback comment and forget what the assignment was about.

Click on Instructions

At the top of the assessment screen is "Instructions" and "Student Work." Click on Instructions to view the full assignment.

Student Work

If you click on "Student Work" to go back and respond to a student, you will find you are no longer looking at that student's Private Comment. Instead, "Student Work" takes you to the entire roster and you have to remember which student you wanted to respond to.

Browser Back Arrow

Long press on the back arrow in your Chrome browser. This is to the left of the Omnibox (address bar). This is NOT the arrow to go back to the Stream. It is the back button to go back a page on the Internet. If you long press on the back arrow you can see the pages you can go back to. Choose the Google Classroom page that has the Private Comment you were hoping to respond to. (You can also just click the back arrow without the long press.)

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Google Classroom: Back Arrow - Teacher Tech

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Go Back to The Instructions Private Comments in Google Classroom have become my priority. It's an opportunity to give students individual and specific attention and feedback. Having conversations about learning makes learning better. I start with my Gmail and see that a student has left a Private Comment on an Assignment.

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I am always tweaking my TemplateTab Add-on. TemplateTab allows you to use ONE spreadsheet with your entire class. Instead of 30 documents to open, you have one. Students can crowdsource and learn from each other. I use it a lot. I have added the ability to more easily reuse your TemplateTab template.

Template

alicekeeler.com/templatetab

The Template Tab

After making a copy of the template you will notice there are 2 tabs. "Put Roster Here" and "Put Template Here." Design your graphic organizer on the "Put Template Here" tab.

The Menu

After pasting your roster on the "Put Roster Here" tab, use the TemplateTab menu to "Run TemplateTab."

This will create a copy of the graphic organizer on the "Put Template Here" tab for each student, within the same spreadsheet. Share the spreadsheet with students, giving them edit access.

Make Copies

I updated "Make Copies" in the menu to now create a copy of the TemplateTab template and to add the graphic organizer template you already have. This minor update allows you to have your roster pasted onto the roster tab, or even to have run TemplateTab, and still be able to make fresh copies for another class.

Delete Unedited Tabs

Sometimes not all students participate in the TemplateTab. One use for TemplateTab is peer evaluation where each student has their own copy of the TemplateTab that has a rubric to peer evaluate each peer. In both cases, not all of the sheets are filled out. Delete Unedited Tabs will count how many cells are edited on each sheet. If the count matches the graphic organizer, the sheet will be deleted.

Email Tab

If your roster you pasted contains the email addresses for each student in column C, you can email each student the link to their specific tab. Remember the point of TemplateTab is collaboration and crowdsourcing so all students can see each other's sheets.

Note if you are sharing TemplateTab through Google Classroom you must ASSIGN the spreadsheet first before using Email Tab. Google Classroom does not give permissions to the document until it has been assigned. If you save the assignment as a draft or schedule the assignment the document is not shared until the assignment actually appears in the Stream.

Move to Front

For peer evaluation purposes it can be frustrating for students to look at the spreadsheet and not realize who has and who has not edited their sheet. The menu option to "Move to Front" moves the sheets that have been edited to the front of the tab list. In other words, slackers are at the end.

Create New

New school year and you want to reuse the TemplateTab templates you used last year, choose "Create New" from the menu. This will create a new TemplateTab and import the template.

Old TemplateTab

The "Create New" is a new feature in TemplateTab. If you previously used TemplateTab those spreadsheets do not have this menu option. In that case try these steps:

Create a fresh TemplateTab at alicekeeler.com/templatetab

Delete the "Put Template Here" tab.
Whatever is the 2nd sheet is considered the graphic organizer.

On the outdated TemplateTab use the View menu and choose "Hidden Sheets." This will reveal the graphic organizer template.

On the "template" tab, click on the tiny triangle and choose "Copy to." Choose the new TemplateTab you created as the destination.

On your new spreadsheet your graphic organizer should now be the 2nd tab and you are all set to "Run TemplateTab."

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TemplateTab: Reuse Template - Teacher Tech

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I am always tweaking my TemplateTab Add-on. TemplateTab allows you to use ONE spreadsheet with your entire class. Instead of 30 documents to open, you have one. Students can crowdsource and learn from each other. I use it a lot. I have added the ability to more easily reuse your TemplateTab template.

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In the tradition of "the answer is always a spreadsheet" I converted a Yohaku puzzle I saw on Twitter into a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Bonus for being a spreadsheet it generates unlimited puzzles, so students are not all doing the same thing. Conditional formatting automatically checks the student's work so they get immediate feedback.

Template

alicekeeler.com/yohaku

Fill in cells with 9 consecutive odd numbers to get totals in each row/column.

I'm a math teacher so "9 consecutive odd numbers" made me excited. Finally an excuse to use the 2n+1 from Algebra!!! I might have had too much fun coding this puzzle.

4 C's Check

Most worksheets have NONE of the 4C's. Let's see how many this one has.

DOK 3 Strategic Thinking (Critical Thinking)

Math puzzles like this can be great for having strategic thinking math conversations. It's also a great hook into a lesson on consecutive integers 🙂 You don't have to be an Algebra student to enjoy these puzzles! You can find more on the Yohaku website.

Creative Thinking

Not collecting 30 of the same thing. Students will come up with creative (and different) strategies to solve the puzzles.

Collaborate

Students are going to have to talk these problems out. Suggest students work in pairs or groups to strategize a solution together. But regardless, it's Google Sheets so it has collaboration baked in. Students can share puzzles and insert feedback comments to help each other think out the reasoning.

Clearly Communicate Ideas

If we ask students to share their strategy

Yohaku Menu

Get started by using the Yohaku menu. (Note, I coded this with Google Apps Script so it must be generated from a computer; not mobile. However, once the puzzle is generated it can be shared and used on mobile.) Choose "Create Puzzle" from the menu.

Email Address

You will then be prompted to enter an email address. The answer key is emailed to that address, the spreadsheet is shared with that email address and the person is linked back to the spreadsheet. In other words, the kids should enter the teacher's email address 🙂 If an invalid (or none) email is entered a pop-up window will list the answer key.

Unlimited Puzzles

You can use the menu multiple times, an additional sheet will be created with an additional puzzle.

Sum

Enter numerical values into the yellow cells such that the rows and columns add up to the summed number on the edges. If the column or row adds up to the summed value on the edge, it will format green.

Notice in my example I was able to get the 3rd column to sum to 43, however number sense... can 5 be part of the set of numbers if 13, 15, 17 and 21 are in the data set? Remember to get students to talk about their strategy and defend their reasoning!

My 11 year old was trying out this puzzle. At first, he typed in 103 in the column that is supposed to add up to 105. So we talked about... what is the range of possible values if you use the number 103? 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119 IF 103 was the smallest number. 103, 101, 99, 97, 95, 93, 91, 89, 87 IF 103 was the largest number. Or it is somewhere in between the 9 consecutive odd integers. Could the sum of 3 of these numbers between 87 and 119 add up to 105? No. Any 3 of these numbers would exceed 105.

So he deleted that. He then observed that 35 + 35 + 35 = 105. Great, except then you don't have consecutive odd integers. And the "consecutive" are within the grid of 9, not necessarily the 3 cells in a row!! My son asked me "Could there be a 33 and a 37 but not a 35?" Well.... you tell me, can there? No, if you have consecutive you need all the ones in between.

So you can see how he and I were having some great number sense conversations as he worked out this puzzle.

Don't Delete Mistakes

Another advantage to using a spreadsheet is you do not have to lose the mistakes. As Stanford math professor Jo Boaler says, mistakes are part of the learning process. We want to see the student's strategic thinking. Hard to do that if they delete their attempts. Can't talk about the students series of strategies if they don't have a series of strategies.

Duplicate the Tab

When the student makes a mistake, have them DUPLICATE the sheet by clicking on the tiny triangle on the tab and choosing "Duplicate." Then they can apply a new strategy. Hopefully, the student ends up with a lot a lot of tabs along the bottom as they work through their thinking.

SlideShot to Communicate Ideas

This activity might be a good excuse to try out SlideShot Chrome extension.

Students click on the Chrome extension to start automatically taking a screenshot every minute. This will capture the strategy and process along the way. Students can add a manual capture as they see fit. The slides are automatically saved to a folder in Google Drive. Upon clicking Finish, the screenshots are automatically added to a Google Slides presentation. Each slide has a text box ready for the student to explain their thinking and strategy.

Code It (Advanced, you might want to stop looking)

I had a lot of fun coding this puzzle. If you're doing some coding and spreadsheets with your students you may want to challenge them to code their own. No cheating and looking at my code 🙂 However, no coding is required to use this puzzle! I already coded it. Even thinking about how they would code it, even if they couldn't code it themselves.

Formulas

Without coding, students can use simple spreadsheet formulas and conditional formatting to create a puzzle to share with a classmate to solve. =if(B2+C2+D2=E2,"Google Job","Try Again")

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Yohaku Puzzle - Of Course Google Sheets - Teacher Tech

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In the tradition of "the answer is always a spreadsheet" I converted a Yohaku puzzle I saw on Twitter into a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Bonus for being a spreadsheet it generates unlimited puzzles, so students are not all doing the same thing. Conditional formatting automatically checks the student's work so they get immediate feedback.

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I get asked this a lot "Alice, can you see all the work one student has done in Google Classroom?" YOU CAN NOW!

Students Tab

Click on the Students tab in Google Classroom to view your class roster. Click on any students name to view their work.

Work Page

Clicking on the student's name on the roster opens that student's work page. View the list of assignments along with the assignments status. On the left-hand side, filter the assignments for ones that are turned in or ones that are missing. (Please do not put grades in Google Classroom. Grades plus feedback is not a bonus. Grades detract from learning and make the value of your feedback comments LESS.)

Hold Down Control and Click on Assignment

TIP! Instead of simply clicking on the assignments to view that particular student's work for that assignment, hold down the Control key (Command on a Mac) or the Shift key. If you hold down the Control key when you click on student's work it will open in a new tab. Thus, you do not lose the list of assignments for that student. This makes it much easier for you to review a students body of work.

Student View

As always, student view is different than teacher view. Students can also review a list of their work submitted for a class. On the class tile is an icon for students to click on that reveals a list of their work.

Students can also find the work icon on the About tab.

List of Work

Students can quickly see what work is missing along with if their teacher has left them a comment. Students can see a small icon on the assignment indicating that there is a Private Comment conversation.They can also see if work is attached to the assignment.

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NEW! Google Classroom: Individual Student View - Teacher Tech

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I get asked this a lot "Alice, can you see all the work one student has done in Google Classroom?" YOU CAN NOW! Click on the Students tab in Google Classroom to view your class roster. Click on any students name to view their work.

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Google Classroom:  Manage Email Explosion 

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Private Comments in Google Classroom are hands down the best thing I've done as a teacher. I prioritize answering Private Comments quickly. This improves relationships with students, which improves learning. The problem is when you ask the students to leave you a Private Comment in Google Classroom your email just exploded.

Leave Email On

You can go into the settings and turn off emails, but I highly discourage this. You want to respond quickly to Private Comments and email is a good way to know that a student left you one. Missing or ignoring Private Comments has the opposite effect of responding quickly to Private Comments.

The trick is to know how to manage your email.

Use the Search Box

In Gmail, I use the search box at the top. When students leave you a Private Comment, the email contains the assignment title name. One of many reasons I number my assignments, it is a lot easier to filter my Gmail if I am searching for a number.

The email title says something like
"Libbi Smith added a private comment on "#010 Why does parenthesis come before..."

In the search box at the top type in some or all of the assignment title. This will filter your Gmail for just the assignments that have that in the subject line.

If I assigned the students to leave me a private comment, then I go through the roster in Google Classroom and respond to each student. I do not need or want a Gmail notification in that instance.

Delete

After searching for the emails that have the assignment title from Google Classroom, check the "Select All" box and press the trashcan icon.

Filter

Previously I had blogged how I filter Gmail for Private Comments from Google Classroom. Any incoming Private Comments are labeled "GC Private Comments" and starred. This helps me respond fast to the Private Comments. When I do not get an email explosion of comments, I need the email notification. After I respond to a student's Private Comment, I delete the email from my Gmail.

Respond and Delete

When I open a Private Comment in Google Classroom and notice on the roster on the left-hand side that other students left Private Comments, I will go through and answer each student right then. I then go into Gmail and search for that assignment title, so I can delete all email notifications that pertain to that assignment.

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Google Classroom: Manage the Email Explosion - Teacher Tech

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Private Comments in Google Classroom are hands down the best thing I've done as a teacher. I prioritize answering Private Comments quickly. This improves relationships with students, which improves learning. The problem is when you ask the students to leave you a Private Comment in Google Classroom your email just exploded.

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Newsela has changed reading in our project-based learning classroom. It adapts to fit the needs of my students. It stimulates curiosity and supports student-directed inquiry.

Data Doesn't Lie

Textbooks with printed words on a page cannot adapt to meet the needs of individual students.

This is a Newsela reading report for Anhthu. She came to my class from Viet Nam at the start of the past school year with very limited English. Each dot on the data chart represents an article read. Starting in August, she gravitated toward articles with Lexiles mostly at the 3rd and 4th grade levels. By the end of the year and 72 articles later, that had changed dramatically. While scores on higher Lexile quizzes are slightly lower than earlier in the year, her reading and speaking abilities have soared along with her confidence. I would argue that's due in part to providing her text to read that was not at a frustrational level and using the for reading on a regular basis. Say Something Protocol

Got Questions?

Textbooks are one-size-fits-all, off-the-rack learning tools that change at the speed of adoption cycles. They're ill-suited to facilitate student-directed inquiries.

This year my students explored climate change with the goal of acting at the local level to do something about it. Since there's not a textbook for that, we turned to National Geographic and Newsela for help. is designed around the attitudes, skills, and knowledge exemplifying an explorer. Text Set National Geographic's Learning Framework on climate change, I was able to aggregate dozens of timely, relevant, and trustworthy new articles for students to launch their inquiry. The best part: students were able to select the Lexile best-suited to their needs. You can check out the highlights of this Newsela provided the foundational knowledge to understand climate change and its impact. By building a Newsela project-based learning experience for yourself.

Knowledge Can Be Transformative

Newsela provides my students information that is engaging and relevant and which can lead to transformative learning. Remember Anhthu? She took the understanding of climate change she developed with Newsela and collaborating with a 4-person team created a film educating businesses in our city how to divert organic waste away from landfills where they would generate greenhouse gases. Check out Anhthu's work for yourself.

Newsela allows me to customize learning experiences for my students.

I no longer have one class of 28 but 28 classes of 1.

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Newsela in the Classroom: Guest Post by @Curiosity_Films - Teacher Tech

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Newsela has changed reading in our project-based learning classroom. It adapts to fit the needs of my students. It stimulates curiosity and supports student-directed inquiry. Textbooks with printed words on a page cannot adapt to meet the needs of individual students. This is a Newsela reading report for Anhthu.

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Previously I had posted a template for creating a header image in Google Classroom. Several people asked if I had one for Google Sites. Sites is a bit tricky because it is responsive. The crop of the banner image depends on the way it is being displayed by the user (obviously something we have no control over).

Template

alicekeeler.com/sitesbanner

Google Sites seems to capture the MIDDLE of your image. The Google Drawing template has a blue section in the middle for you to create your banner. Anything in the white areas is likely NOT to be displayed.

Change the Color

Click on the blue box in the middle and use the paint can icon in the toolbar to change the color.

Drag a Bitmoji

Because it is Google Drawing you can drag images right onto the drawing canvas. This includes dragging Bitmoji's from the Bitmoji Chrome extension.

Download Image

Use the File menu and choose "Download as" and choose "PNG image." In the Google Sites banner, click on "Change image" and choose "Upload." This will allow you to upload the image you created.

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Google Sites Header Image Template - Teacher Tech

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Previously I had posted a template for creating a header image in Google Classroom. Several people asked if I had one for Google Sites. Sites is a bit tricky because it is responsive. The crop of the banner image depends on the way it is being displayed by the user (obviously something we have no control over).

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When students are using digital devices the screenshot can be a great way for students to share what they are working on, what they are struggling with or where they ended up. Screenshots are a JPEG image file and thus will work with the DriveSlides Chrome extension.

The DriveSlides Chrome extension takes a folder of images from Google Drive and magically creates a Google Slides presentation. If students create a screenshot and you collect them into a folder in Google Drive you can quickly create a single presentation of all students' work.

Save Your Sanity

Trying to open and view an entire classes screenshots is a lot of clicking. If you would like to review for yourself quickly what was submitted simply open the folder in Google Drive with student screenshots and press the DriveSlides icon. Boom, you can quickly view all the files at once as if you opened them all... but didn't.

Tip: you can also click on one of the screenshots in Google Drive and press P for preview and arrow through the screenshots quickly, no need for DriveSlides but not quite as fun. 🙂

Share with the Class

Putting the students' screenshots into Google Slides makes it easy to share with the class. Project the slides or share them out to allow students to learn from other students. Start discussions based on the screenshot submissions.

Collaborate

Of course, Google Slides is collaborative. Once you have the screenshots into Google Slides you can share the Google Slides with edit access to a group or the class. Students can insert feedback comments for peer evaluation and conversation. Ask students to go to Google Earth and take a screenshot of a favorite location. The Google Earth screenshots are shared into Google Slides and students can then work together to identify particular elements in the pictures. For example in math "Identify different types of angles you find."

Google Classroom

An awesome feature of Google Classroom is that student work is stored in a single folder of Google Drive. If students submit their screenshots to Google Classroom you automatically have all the screenshots in a Google Drive folder. One click of the DriveSlides Chrome extension and you have Google Slides that you can link to in Google Classroom. Fast and easy!

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Activity: Screenshots + DriveSlides - Teacher Tech

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When students are using digital devices the screenshot can be a great way for students to share what they are working on, what they are struggling with or where they ended up. Screenshots are a JPEG image file and thus will work with the DriveSlides Chrome extension.

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My best best tip for using Google Classroom is to number your assignments. If it's in Google Classroom, number it! It really has so many benefits. I also recommend numbering the "attachments" (although nothing is really attached, they are linked from Google Drive) to match. I have an Add-on I've created to help make this process easier.

Template

alicekeeler.com/numberdocs

Match Assignment Numbers

If the assignment is #022 then any documents that go with it (I call them assets) have the same number on them. It's easy to do, the documents are not attached they are only linked in Google Drive so changing the title of the document changes it in Google Classroom. This works even if you change the document titles after you published the assignment.

Hashtag and 3 Digits

I do NOT restart numbering at the semester. I do not want any mixup. When I talk about assignment #010 I want it to be the ONLY number ten assignment. For this reason I use 3 digits to give me plenty of numbering options. The hashtag is essential to make the number unique to an assignment. When I do a search for #010 I find assignment ten. If I search in Google Drive for 10 I get anything I've ever made that has a 10 in it... which is like everything. Hashtag is important.

Folder in Google Drive

Suggestion to create a folder that holds the documents used for a particular class. You can hold a document in multiple folders by selecting the file in Google Drive and holding down the Shift key and pressing Z. This will allow you to add files to additional folders.

Template Directions

The template creates a list of the documents in a folder in Google Drive. If the documents are already numbered in the format of #000 then the number can be removed from the document title automatically. Reassign the documents a new number and the documents are renamed with the press of a button.

Add-on Menu

After making a copy of the template use the Add-on menu and choose "Number Documents."

Choose Folder

From the sidebar, click on the "Choose Folder" button to select the folder in Google Drive that contains your class documents.

Remove Numbering

The second button in the sidebar removes the hashtag and 3 digit number from the front of the document titles.

Column C shows the title of the document renamed without the numbering; however, the titles are not changed until "Reset titles already numbered" is selected in the sidebar.

Determine Numbering in Column A

By default Column A will contain the numbers that previously were assigned the documents. Change these as needed. Your #005 assignment last year may be #008 this year. Change this in column A. Pressing the 3rd button in the sidebar will rename all the documents with the updated assignment numbers.

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My best best tip for using Google Classroom is to number your assignments. If it's in Google Classroom, number it! It really has so many benefits. I also recommend numbering the "attachments" (although nothing is really attached, they are linked from Google Drive) to match.

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Digital stickers can be a powerful motivator. Check out these tips and tricks for grading digital assignments.

Getting Started with Digital Stickers

The moment I started giving digital stickers, I noticed an excitement in the air. Fifth graders buzzed. "She's looking at my slide." "She's looking at mine, too." "Oh, I got a high five sticker!" "Me, too!"

The giddiness in the air would have made you think this was a group of kindergarteners getting stickers for the first time. The smiles and joy were palpable. I thought it would die off, but it hasn't. They are still just as excited as they were the first day. In fact, I've had to set up some basic expectations: Be patient with your teacher. It may take a few minutes for her to give you a sticker after your page is done. Instead of yelling with excitement, try whispering to a partner or sending your, "Thank you, Mrs. Hutchens!" via chat. These are great problems to have.

What are Digital Stickers?

Digital Stickers are honestly whatever you want them to be. I started out copy / pasting a yellow star onto slides that were correct. Eventually I moved on to memes and Bitmojis.

Bitmoji can be added as a chrome extension. Just be careful, there are some that are not school appropriate. Creating a Google Slide with your favorite Bitmojis or memes can save time.

When you want to use the digital stickers, just open a tab and copy paste them onto assignments.

Having many tabs open, allows you to quickly go through and paste digital stickers onto correct slides.

Another option is to open the answer key and assignment in a split screen. If you paste digital stickers into your answer key, you can copy paste them from there.

What About Wrong Answers?

When a slide isn't ready for a digital sticker, comments can be the perfect way to let the students know what they need to fix.

Before you type a comment, click on the section with the error. When the students clicks the comment, it will highlight the mistake.

Teach students to look for a little gray speech bubble in their side bar so they notice your comments.

When grading math slides, you may not want to take the time to write comments. A quick way to draw the students attention is to highlight the mistake in red. The red stands out in the side bar and makes it easy for the students to see slides that need attention.

Where are the Resources in the Pictures?

All of these pictures are from resources I made and used with my K-6 Intervention Students. Click the covers below to look at the resources in my TPT store.

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Digital stickers can be a powerful motivator. Check out these tips and tricks for grading digital assignments. The moment I started giving digital stickers, I noticed an excitement in the air. Fifth graders buzzed. "She's looking at my slide." "She's looking at mine, too." "Oh, I got a high five sticker!"

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What is worse than a worksheet? A worksheet trapped in a notebook. Looking at a notebook that has worksheets glued into it, I asked, "How will the student get feedback on this?" Answer: The teacher will collect the notebooks over the weekend and grade them. Teacher time is so valuable! It is important that we weigh the bang for the buck we get on how we spend our time. "If I spend hours marking these, will student learning increase? Yes... by how much? Is there something I could spend my time doing instead that would have greater bang for the buck?" Look at your ROI (Return on Investment of time).

The greater the distance from a student finishing a task and the student receiving feedback, the less they care.

Feedback

High-quality feedback that is timely does help students to learn. Best is if it can be delivered WHILE the student is still working on the task, that is when they care the most. This isn't always feasible. However, whenever possible... try to set a goal for providing feedback while students are still actively engaged in the task. Google Docs is great for this, you can jump into the document and insert feedback comments even if the student has not typed a single word yet (hopefully they have). A worksheet trapped in a notebook is going to be one of the slowest ways for students to get feedback. It's also sketchy if the kids will even look back at the worksheet to see the scoring on it.

Use a Google Form

Google Forms are great for collecting information and saving precious teacher time. Having all student responses collect to a spreadsheet allows for quick review of student work to provide feedback faster. Now granted I am pretty fast with typing and I know my way around making a Google Form but one time a teacher was grading a science quiz and I was able to type up the entire quiz into a Google Form before she could finish marking one quiz.

Turn on the Spreadsheet

When you create a Google Form the accompanying spreadsheet is not automatic. You must manually create it. Click on the "Responses" tab while editing a Google Form and click on the green "Create Spreadsheet" icon.

Google Keep

Even though I am fast at typing, why type it if I don't have to. Google Keep app allows me to take a picture of the worksheet into a Keep note. On my phone, I can tap on the image and click on the 3 dots icon and choose "Grab image text." Or, from my computer go to the Google Keep website and use the 3 dots icon to "Grab image text." It's not perfect all the time, but close enough. Now I can copy and paste each question into the Google Form.

Control Shift Enter

One of my Google Forms tricks is to use the keyboard shortcut Control Shift Enter to add an additional question.

Always Answer First

Tip, after creating a Google Form be the FIRST to answer it with the ANSWER KEY. It's super helpful. You want the answer key to be row 2 in your spreadsheet so be the FIRST!

Flubaroo for Feedback

One cool feature of Flubaroo is the ability to give feedback on free response questions and create a report that is either emailed to students or saved to their Google Drive (particularly handy if your students do not have email accounts.)

After enabling Flubaroo, and students have filled out the Google Form, choose "Grade Assignment" from the Flubaroo menu.

In the setup process, change the free response questions from "Normal grading" aka Automatic grading to "Grade by Hand." For questions Flubaroo can grade (multiple choice) LET IT! Leave it "Normal grading."

If you filled out the Google Form with the name "Answer Key" it is extra easy to identify.

Grade Questions by Hand

Go back to the Flubaroo menu and choose "Grade questions by hand."

Grade by Question

If you want to be consistent (and speed up the feedback process) grade by question rather than by student. When grading by hand, arrow through each student on a question by question basis.

Student Feedback Comment

The grading by hand option allows you to give feedback per question, which is awesome. If you want to leave a student a personalized note on their entire set of answers choose "Edit Student Feedback" from the Flubaroo menu.

This inserts a blue column (nerdy brag, that was my idea!) Write each student a note!

Share Grades

Share the grades and feedback comments with students by choosing "Share Grades" from the Flubaroo menu.

Choose to share the grades through email or Google Drive or both.

Use Your Time Differently

Technology allows us the opportunity to use our time differently so we can impact student learning. Using technology to replace paper does not improve learning. There has to be a change in the instruction and how we use our time for there to be an impact on learning.

Need Paper?

If you absolutely need that information on paper, check out the Google Sheets Add-on Autocrat. It will merge the student answers into a Google Doc or PDF that can be printed. You may like my PDFmyFolder add on to help you print those out.

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What is worse than a worksheet? A worksheet trapped in a notebook. Looking at a notebook that has worksheets glued into it, I asked, "How will the student get feedback on this?" Answer: The teacher will collect the notebooks over the weekend and grade them. Teacher time is so valuable!

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Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is about the complexity of thinking the student is doing. Not how hard or necessarily how interesting a problem is. Vocabulary lessons can often get stuck in the trap of DOK 1, low critical thinking. Check out Dr. Norman web's document on DOK for Language Arts.

Consider analyze over memorize.

When designing lessons, one way to put yourself in the mindset of increasing the Depth of Knowledge is to consider doing activities that are analyze over memorize. From Dr. Webb's document on DOK for Language Arts, we can raise the DOK on vocabulary by:

Use context cues to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words.

PDF to Google Doc

I am a fan of Google Docs. They allow for conversations as opposed to simply doing annotations. To have students learn vocabulary through context clues you will need a reading passage with vocabulary in it. If your document is a PDF you can convert it to a Google Doc by first uploading the PDF to Google Drive. Right click on the PDF in Google Drive and choose "Open with" and select "Google Docs." This will convert it to editable text in a Google text document.

Warning, if your PDF has some fancy layouts and formatting this probably won't be the best conversion. No matter what, it may not be perfect and you'll want to give the converted document a once over.

Sample Assignment

DOK 2 - Context Clues
In Google Classroom, click on OPEN and find your copy of the reading passage
Read through the passage. Highlight any vocabulary words you do not know. Attempt to define the words from context clues. Insert a comment and explain what the word means and cite your evidence and rationale.

After identifying the vocab words and trying to figure them out with context clues, share the Google Doc with a partner. Reply to each other's comments to have a conversation about the words to help understand them better.

Use a Google Search define:vocab to look up the words and compare your understanding to the definition. Reply to your own comments with this information.

Control Alt M

I am a fan of learning the keyboard shortcut to insert comments into a Google Doc. There are other ways to add comments to the document too. When highlighting text in a Google Doc a comment icon appears in the margin that you can click on.

The keyboard shortcut to insert a comment is Control Alt M (Command Option M on a Mac). I recommend teaching this to students.

On a mobile device, students hold down on the text until a menu comes up and the option to "Add comment" appears.

Conversations

Honestly, I use Google Docs comments to have conversations with myself sometimes. I like that I can insert an idea and reply to myself with more information or an answer to my own question. Collaborating and having conversations with others is even better 🙂 Either way, I love this feature.

Have students use the comments feature in Google Docs to identify the vocabulary that is unfamiliar to them. In the comments, the student should explain their reasoning for how the context of the passage helps them to understand the definition.

Critique the Reasoning of Others

Take vocab from being a solo activity to collaborative. Google Docs is perfect for this. Students click the blue "Share" button to invite a peer to the document. Peers then REPLY to the comments to provide feedback on the reasoning and to possibly provide challenges to the reasoning. Note, you have to teach students how to give high-quality feedback. Create assignments where the feedback is the assignment, not the task itself and work with students to analyze that feedback and get better at it.

Compare

After the student and the peer have reviewed the vocabulary in context and explained their thinking, the students can then look up the vocab. In a simple Google search, students can type the word define followed by a colon and the vocab word to get the definition. Students can reply to their original comments where they explained the context clues and compare their answer to the dictionary answer.

QuickShare Screenshot

Optionally, if students have QuickShare Screenshot Chrome extension installed they can take a screenshot of the definition from the Google Search. The screenshot is saved to Google Drive and the link to the screenshot is automatically saved to the student's clipboard. A simple Control V to paste the link into the comments allows students to put the screenshot in their comment thread.

Comments Button

Another reason I love Google Docs for comments is the "Comments" button in the upper right next to the blue "Share" button. This shows the entire list of comments without having to scan the length of the document.

Reply

Since these are conversations not just comments, as the teacher you are able to jump in and respond in the comment thread to help develop students thinking and use of context clues.

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Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is about the complexity of thinking the student is doing. Not how hard or necessarily how interesting a problem is. Vocabulary lessons can often get stuck in the trap of DOK 1, low critical thinking. Check out Dr. Norman web's document on DOK for Language Arts.

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You can add your own custom header to Google Classroom. I make a lot of Google Classrooms and I was feeling like adding my Bitmoji to mix it up. To do that I had to make my own image.

alicekeeler.com/gcheader

Change the Background Color

The default in the template is blue. Right-click on the template and choose "Background." This provides a color pallet to choose a different color.

Add Your Bitmoji (Customize!)

You do not need to add your Bitmoji, add something of yourself and your students! If you do have the Bitmoji Chrome extension, click on the extension and literally DRAG the Bitmoji onto the template.

Download As PNG

Use the File menu on the template to choose "Download as" and choose "PNG." This downloads the header image to your computer.

Upload Image

In Google Classroom in the header area, bottom right click on "Upload."

Resize

The selection area does not cover the entire header image. Use the resizing handles on the corner to stretch the selection area to cover the entire header image.

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You can add your own custom header to Google Classroom. I make a lot of Google Classrooms and I was feeling like adding my Bitmoji to mix it up. To do that I had to make my own image. alicekeeler.com/gcheader The default in the template is blue.

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Just for fun, I coded a Word Search from a Google Sheets spreadsheet. You can use my template to create your own Word Search.

Template

alicekeeler.com/wordsearch

Paste Your Words

Make Puzzle Add-on

Watch the Magic

Clean Up the Puzzle

Test for Errors

Find a Spot

Manually find a spot on the answer key for where you want to add the words that did not make the list. Highlight the words starting in column AA, copy and then paste somewhere of your choosing onto the answer grid.

Remove Oops

Notice on the answer key some words are not words! When the code tries to put a word on the answer key and runs into another word it does NOT delete the attempt. So you will see partial attempts at placing a word on the answer key.

Notice for each "oops" word that did not make the puzzle the oops is SOMEWHERE on the answer key. In the above example, the word "PEOPLE" tried to be placed on the puzzle at E2. But in entering P, E, O... it conflicted with another word at the second P. Thus the word PEOPLE was moved to the "oops" list and not placed on the puzzle.

Clean Up the Answer Key

Clean up the answer key by deleting the "almost words." Click on a cell or range of cells and press delete on the keyboard.

Update the Puzzle

After you've cleaned up the answer key, go back to the "Make Word Search" menu and choose "Update Puzzle." This will add from the answer key to the actual puzzle itself.

Note that if you DELETE letters from the answer key they are NOT updated into the puzzle. The puzzle update only pushes non blank cell contents to the puzzle. You can always manually edit the actual puzzle itself if you need to.

Print

You can use Control P to print (or use the File menu and choose print) and just print the puzzle. Google Sheets defaults to print the current sheet so make sure you are looking at the actual puzzle.

Copy and Paste into Google Apps

Create a Google Apps Document

Create the Google Apps document of your choice: Drawings, Docs or Slides. Use Control V to paste the puzzle. Now you can design the Google Apps document to have directions and anything else you want to include.

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Just for fun, I coded a Word Search from a Google Sheets spreadsheet. You can use my template to create your own Word Search. alicekeeler.com/wordsearch Manually find a spot on the answer key for where you want to add the words that did not make the list.

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Today is a good day to learn something new! If you are a user of G Suite and Google Apps documents check out these challenges! I picked a few Google Apps with a beginner, intermediate and advanced challenge.
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Adding Forward and Back Buttons in slides presentation

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Adding Forward and Back Buttons in slides presentation

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Google Sites - Adding forward and back buttons to your slider built in Google Presentation - VCFA

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Google Sites - Adding forward and back buttons to your slider built in Google Presentation

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Google Classroom automatically creates a "Classroom" folder in Google Drive for the teacher and the student. This is awesome but may lead to some confusion. Here are some tips about the Google Classroom folder.

The class folder in Google Drive for the teacher and the student has the same name but is NOT the same folder. If a teacher adds files to the class folder in Google Drive, these files are NOT visible to the students. If a student adds files to their class folder in Google Drive, the files are NOT visible to the teacher or classmates.

This is good because teachers and students can put files that are associated with the class into the class folder to keep organized. Since the Google Classroom class folder is a regular folder in Google Drive, you can organize it however it makes sense to you.

A common misconception is that files shared via Google Drive are shared with others in the class. The files placed in the folders in Google Drive are only visible to those who are shared on the folder.

Teachers wanting to share files with their students can create a folder within the class folder and share that folder with the students.

A great use for Google Classroom is professional development or collaboration groups. PD leaders wanting to share resources can do this through Google Classroom. Files shared by the "teacher" of the collaboration group will be visible to "students" (other teachers enrolled as students) in the class. These are NOT shared through the Google Drive folder, but rather through Google Classroom.

Share the Folder

To allow 2-way sharing of files, go to the class folder in Google Drive. This is a subset of the Classroom folder. Share the folder explicitly with the collaborators in the Google Classroom class.

Note that if you share the class folder, this has the SAME NAME as the class folder the "students" have. This may cause confusion. Rename your class folder and append "collaboration folder" to the folder name.

Files that are turned into Google Classroom are saved in the teachers Google Classroom folder. These files are private between the teacher and student unless the teacher shares the class folder with the entire class.

Set the sharing settings so that the "students" in class have edit access to the teachers class folder. This is where they will contribute resources and documents intended for the group. Suggestion to have a naming convention that everyone follows so that the folder of resources is organized.

Suggestion to link to the collaboration folder in the "About" tab of Google Classroom. If you share a folder with everyone in the class, the folder will be visible in "Shared with Me." The students can move and organize the folder into their Google Classroom class folder, but this would not be automatically done for them. Providing a link in the About tab makes it easier for students in the class to access the collaborative folder.

Files and folders can be organized in multiple places. In Google Drive, single click on a folder or file that needs to be shared with the group. Hold down the shift key and press Z. This will allow you to "Add" instead of move the files to the class collaboration folder.

If you are using Google Classroom for teacher collaboration or professional development, the easiest way to organize files from the group is to have the teachers "Turn In" documents to share. For each subfolder you want in the collaborative class folder, create an assignment. Teachers can then click on the OPEN button in the assignment and use the "Add" button or the "Create" button to add files to that folder. If the Class folder is shared with all of the teachers participating in the professional development or collaboration group, then the documents in the assignment folders will also be available to everyone.

Turning in documents ensures that the files are placed in the correct folder and is easier than trying to add files directly to Google Drive.

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Google Classroom automatically creates a "Classroom" folder in Google Drive for the teacher and the student. This is awesome but may lead to some confusion. Here are some tips about the Google Classroom folder. Same Name The class folder in Google Drive for the teacher and the student has the same name but is NOT ...

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I love to use collaborative Google Slides. I am frequently asked about how to keep students from editing my slides in the template. While you can not restrict editing on Slides like you can a Google Sheets spreadsheet, there is a trick that will help keep the slide from being edited.

First, create the slide with the images and text that you wish.

With the slide selected, go to the File menu and choose "Download as" and choose "PNG image." This will download the image of that slide to the computer.

Delete the slide. The current slide has the ability to move the text and images around.

From the layout options, insert a blank slide.

From the toolbar, choose the "Background" button.

Choose the Image and upload the image of the slide you downloaded. This will set the slide content as the background image, which can not be easily manipulated by students.

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Google Slides: Lock Down Slide Content - Teacher Tech

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I love to use collaborative Google Slides. I am frequently asked about how to keep students from editing my slides in the template. While you can not restrict editing on Slides like you can a Google Sheets spreadsheet, there is a trick that will help keep the slide from being edited.

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I love Google Slides for so many reasons beyond a presentation tool. Google Slides is great for creating multi-page documents. If students are creating posters, Google Slides is a great medium.

Use the File menu in Google Slides to choose "Page setup."

The default is "Widescreen 16:9." Click on this to change the slide size.

Change from widescreen to "Custom."

The default size is 10 x 5.626 inches. Swap this to be 5.625 by 10 inches. This makes the slides portrait for posters.

Simply rotating the slides sideways produces a very skinny poster size. Try a dimension of 7.5 x 10 to create a portrait size that will print nicely onto paper.

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I love Google Slides for so many reasons beyond a presentation tool. Google Slides is great for creating multi-page documents. If students are creating posters, Google Slides is a great medium. Page SetUp Use the File menu in Google Slides to choose "Page setup." The default is "Widescreen 16:9."

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What you can and cannot do after the student has opened a copy

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Google Classroom gives you 3 ways to attach documents in an assignment.

Students can view file

Students can edit file

Create a copy for each student

When using Google Classroom as a replacement for the Xerox machine, realize that it functions a lot like the Xerox machine. When you take your document down to the copy machine and print off 100 copies and then realize you have a typo, you can NOT fix the 100 copies you made. You have to re-photocopy or live with the typos.

Choosing "Create a copy for each student" creates a copy of YOUR original at the moment you attach it in Google Classroom. This means when you make updates to your original, the updates are NOT reflected in Google Classroom even if zero students have accessed the assignment.

Google Classroom does not create a copy of the teachers document until the student clicks on the OPEN button and opens the document. If the you check the assignment folder in Google Drive, you will notice it is empty when you initially assign. As students open the file the assignment folder in Google Drive will be populated. If a student does not open the assignment, no document for that student will be found in the assignment folder.

In Google Drive there is a folder that says "Classroom." Within that folder is a folder for each class you create. Within the class folder is a folder marked "Templates - DO NOT EDIT."

Here is my tip: You can edit!

When you attach a document into an assignment in Google Classroom a COPY of your original is created and placed in the "Templates - DO NOT EDIT" folder. Each time a student opens the assignment the student copy is created off of the copy that is in the "Templates - DO NOT EDIT" folder.

As ominous as the capital letters are screaming at you NOT to edit, you can of course edit.

Any edits you make to the document in "Templates - DO NOT EDIT" will only take effect for students who have NOT accessed the assignment already. Once a student makes a copy by clicking on the assignment in Google Classroom, it is locked. It is a copy and is no longer connected to the original.

If you can manage to make your updates before students have opened the assignment, then all students can have the corrected version of your template.

My trick is to go to my real original where I have made my updates and use Control A to select all. Control C copies. Then I go to the "Templates - DO NOT EDIT" folder and find the template of my original document and open that file. I then Control A select all on that document. Control V paste to override what is on the doc.

If some of your students have already made a copy, there is nothing you can do about that. You have access to each student's document so you COULD open each student's file and Control A select all and Control V paste the new template onto their document. If the student has made any edits at all, they will probably be upset that you did this.

For the students who have not yet opened the assignment, if you edited the file in the "Templates - DO NOT EDIT" folder, they will receive the updated version.

Unfortunately, you can NOT add a document to an assignment as "Make a copy for each student" after you have assigned the assignment. When you go to edit the assignment your only choices are to attach a file as can view and can edit.

Here is the trick. Open up your original and use Control L to highlight the URL and Control C to copy.

In Google Classroom, click on the 3 dots on the assignment in the stream to edit the assignment. Choose to attach a LINK. Use Control V to paste the link to your document. BEFORE you click "Add," change the /edit at the end of the link to /copy. See my blog post on this. When students click on the link on the assignment they will be prompted to make a copy. This copy does NOT go in the Google Classroom assignment folder, but rather to the students Google Drive and it is not shared with the teacher.

Modify the Google Classroom directions to instruct students who already made a copy of the document to click on the OPEN button and to click on the X next to the assignment that is already attached. The student would then click on the "Add" button and attach a file from Google Drive. The student would browse for the file they just copied to attach it in Google Classroom. This shares the document with the teacher and adds the file to the teachers assignment folder in Google Drive.

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Google Classroom gives you 3 ways to attach documents in an assignment. Students can view file Students can edit file Create a copy for each student When using Google Classroom as a replacement for the Xerox machine, realize that it functions a lot like the Xerox machine.

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I'm sharing the secrets to keeping up with Google!
To update one of last year's most popular posts, The Guide to Keeping Up with Google, I am putting together a new guide and blog series with tips for keeping up with Google. I often get asked, "How do you keep up with Google?" Well, first let me say that it's almost impossible! However, social media is the best way to stay up-to-date on all things Google. I am not an expert. I am a learner first! I learn from my PLN, from bloggers, from news sources, from YouTube, and a variety of other social media platforms. I have compiled a list of hashtags, people, blogs, communities, and more that I follow.

Did you miss the other parts in this series?

But let me begin by saying that this guide is meant to be just that, a guide, a starting point. I do not read everything. You have to select your most valuable players, and that will vary depending on your purpose and your goals. Choose what works for you! I am starting with hashtags. Keep in mind that hashtags are not just for Twitter and Instagram, they can be found all over the web. Hashtags are a way of categorizing and connecting information. Below are some of the most common hashtags, and the ones I find most useful in finding Google resources and other Google Apps enthusiasts. Search for the ones that interest you, and on the platforms that appeal to you and see what's there. (Note: The links below are to a Twitter search to give you an idea of what people share with that hashtag.)

The Google Hashtag Dictionary
The top two hashtags for Google in Education:

#GoogleEdu (Google in Education): This is Google's official hashtag for all things Google in Education.

#GAFE (Google Apps For Education): This one has been around a little bit longer but is still very popular, and is shorter, so it comes in handy when you only 140 characters.

General Google Hashtags:

#Google: Of course this is still a very popular hashtag but will connect with much more than just educational uses of Google.

#GoogleSearch: Google's search engine is full of amazing tricks and information. This hashtag will help connect you with search related information.

Google Events: Google Certifications:
Google updated the certifications over the summer and gave us new hashtags. Follow these hashtags to connect and learn with Google Certified Innovators and Trainers.

#GoogleET(Google for Education Certified Trainers)

#GoogleEI (Google for Education Certified Innovators)

App Specific Hashtags:
You will see various versions of hashtags for specific Google Apps, like #GoogleDocs, but they are not all used consistently enough to list here. But feel free to use and search when you are looking for app specific resources.

#GoogleClassroom: Google Classroom is quickly becoming a favorite app among educators, and with all of the recent updates, this hashtag will come in handy when keeping up with Google Classroom.

I have often said that is an amazing resource and social media platform for educators. This hashtag isn't the most popular but is another way to connect and learn.

#EduHangout: Google Hangouts offer an amazing way to connect and learn with other educators, experts, authors and more! Check this hashtag for details!

Stay tuned for more ways to keep up with Google by subscribing to the Shake Up Learning blog! Next up: Who to follow!

Did you miss the other parts in this series?

What are your MVP's for keeping up with Google? Please share in the comments below! I love learning from you!

New and Updated Google Cheat Sheets are in the works! Who's excited? Share your love of the Shake Up Learning Google Cheat Sheets and let me know!

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The #Google Hashtag Dictionary: The Guide to Keeping Up with Google - Part 1

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Reinventing Math Class

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Reinventing Math Class
Guest post by John McGowan, Math Product Manager, Texthelp
Let's get real for a minute: math has always had a bit of an image problem, hasn't it?!

As a teacher for over fifteen years, I know all too well that many of my students just aren't as excited by the subject as I am. I can see it on their faces when they come into the room for my first class each year. And as the long-term poor relation, math is now facing an even bigger threat to its popularity in the classroom - technology.

Tech has been a powerful enabler for new approaches to learning over the last few years and digital methods are steadily transforming teaching, as traditional pedagogy gives way to more collaborative, interactive strategies.

But the benefits of technology haven't been enjoyed equally across all subjects.

The explosion of digital devices has made the teaching of English, science and humanities subjects a more social, community-focused experience. Students can work together on stories and assignments, sharing comments and suggestions with each other in much the same way they engage with their digital lives outside the classroom.

There have been many efforts to introduce technology into math classes as well. But the big barrier is being able to write math digitally. Teachers and students find it difficult inputting equations, graphs and other expressions on a computer. Even writing a basic fraction like 'three-quarters' (¾) with your keyboard isn't easy. And what about square root signs, fractions, powers or other mathematical symbols and expressions?

There are various mathematical description languages out there. But you have to think like a programmer, using hard-to-remember codes and key combinations to write something relatively straightforward like the solution to a quadratic equation.

When I joined the team last summer, one of our goals was to change the way math is written digitally. And I'm excited to announce that we've officially taken digital math to the next level!

Our newly launched Chrome extension , EquatIO, takes the pain out of creating equations, formulas, and math quizzes. With , you don't need to know any of that complicated math code. It understands what you're typing or handwriting, instantly turning your expressions into clear, accurate on-screen formulas. And it works on Windows, Mac and Chromebook, so it's great for BYOD classrooms.

Watch this video to see exactly what EquatIO can do!

You may be saying to yourself, "But I thought Texthelp was all about tech for reading and writing?" Well, I would argue that math is a form of communication just like reading or writing. "Show your work" is a common phrase heard in every math classroom. That's because math is more about explaining how you got your answer rather than the answer itself.

introduces a digital way for students to easily demonstrate and communicate their thinking. What's more, Texthelp is fundamentally about helping individuals understand and be understood, which we can now do across all subjects .

EquatIO Features:

- Easily create math expressions including equations and formulas
- Compatible with Google Docs and Forms* (Sheets and Slides coming soon!)
- Input via keyboard, handwriting recognition* (via touchscreen or touchpad) and voice dictation
- Guesses what you're typing or writing - like predictive text on your smartphone*
- Hear your math expressions read out loud
- Compatible with LaTeX input for advanced users
- Create interactive digital math quizzes*
- Input student responses directly into digital quizzes*
- Chemistry formula prediction*

You can at the Chrome Store. All premium features are now try EquatIO for free Free for Teachers!

Give it a go today - and join in with our community to see how we can all make math digital.

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Reinventing Math Class with EquatIO (Chrome Extension)

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Guest post by John McGowan, Math Product Manager, Texthelp Let's get real for a minute: math has always had a bit of an image problem, hasn't it?! As a teacher for over fifteen years, I know all too well that many of my students just aren't as excited by the subject as I am.

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A feature of the old Google spreadsheets was to be able to append &newcopy to the end of the URL. What this would do is when you share a view only link with a student, it would prompt the student to make a copy. This is a feature I used all the time with students and sharing templates with colleagues. Unfortunately this feature no longer works with the new Google Sheets.

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New to Google Docs is now the ability to replace the /edit at the end of the URL and replace it with /copy. This has the same functionality that the old feature had.

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The /copy works with ALL types of documents. Sheets, Documents, Slides, Draw!!

In the URL up in the address bar delete the /edit at the end of the link. For a spreadsheet you will ALSO delete the #gid=#### to the right of the /edit. Instead type /copy

Example

The URL on this Google Drawing is
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pR1dKjOUXZomftAmdDe383jbDNKTcO9h-dRe7rgE7w0/edit

DELETE the /edit and replace with /copy
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pR1dKjOUXZomftAmdDe383jbDNKTcO9h-dRe7rgE7w0/copy
Notice when you click on the link that it prompts you to make a copy of the drawing.

Example

The URL on this Google Sheets spreadsheet is
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RWhBCSuY0qhNoc42Yh6vtxKNp6TcM
mF_KyXKztntujA/edit#gid=3

DELETE the /edt#gid=3 and replace with /copy
Note that your #gid= will be followed with a different number than 3, that number refers to the tab ID.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RWhBCSuY0qhNoc42Yh6vtxKNp6TcM
mF_KyXKztntujA/copy
Notice when you click on the link that it prompts you to make a copy of the spreadsheet.

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Google Docs: Prompt Students to Make a Copy - Teacher Tech

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A feature of the old Google spreadsheets was to be able to append &newcopy to the end of the URL. What this would do is when you share a view only link with a student, it would prompt the student to make a copy. This is a feature I used all the time with students ...

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If you have some Google text documents that you would like in a spreadsheet here is your solution! Simply copy the URL of each Google text document into a list. This will merge them all together into a spreadsheet. Because "the answer is always a spreadsheet." Or maybe, just for fun.

alicekeeler.com/getdocs

Copy URL's

After making a copy of the template, paste the links (URL's) to Google text documents into the spreadsheet.

One use for this template is to merge all student responses into one spreadsheet so you can see it all at once. My alicekeeler.com/pulltheparagraph does this for you also. The difference is that in Pull the Paragraph each student's work is represented horizontally. You use the right arrow key to move through the students paragraphs and then go to the next line to read the next student's work.

Instead, you may want a vertical list of all the students' work in the same place. This makes it easier to review multiple student responses from a Google text doc at once.

Get Docs Menu

Use te Get Docs menu to run the Add-on script.

A New Sheet

A new sheet is inserted. Be patient, it can take a few minutes for the script to load.

How Did You Get All Those Student URL's Again?

One way to get the URL's from a bunch of student documents is the old fashioned way, copy and paste. Open all the Docs. Copy the URL and paste into the spreadsheet one at a time.

I'm too lazy for that. I have several things I've coded that will suck the list of URL's from Google Docs in a folder. If you're a Google Classroom user then all the students' work for an assignment is in a single folder in Google Drive.

Pull the Paragraph

alicekeeler.com/pulltheparagraph will let you choose a folder in Google Drive and bring in the URL of each document in the folder

List Docs and Show Docs

alicekeeler.com/listdocs and alicekeeler.com/showdocs will create a list of all the documents in a folder in Google Drive. Including the documents in the sub-folders. List Docs puts all the links to student documents in one list. Show Docs separates the list of student documents by sub-folder on separate tabs.

Grade the Folder

alicekeeler.com/gradethefolder also will give you a list of all the documents in a folder in Google Drive. Grade the Folder, in particular, allows you to set the grading status in column A of the spreadsheet and modify the document title name.

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Bring In a Google Doc into a Spreadsheet - Teacher Tech

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If you have some Google text documents that you would like in a spreadsheet here is your solution! Simply copy the URL of each Google text document into a list. This will merge them all together into a spreadsheet. Because "the answer is always a spreadsheet." Or maybe, just for fun.

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Help Students Get Organized, Track Progress, Take Notes, and more with Google Keep!

Google Keep is a robust G Suite tool that can help teachers and students create and share notes, lists, and reminders. There are so many possibilities that I decided to put together this post and infographic with ideas for how Google Keep can be used in the classroom: 15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep!

Get the Google Keep CHEAT Sheet

Learn more about how to use Google Keep from my Google Keep CHEAT SHEET (free download), and be sure to check out all of the Google Keep resources I am creating and curating.

Using Google Keep in the Classroom

I love to think of all of the possibilities that Google Keep creates for the classroom. Google Keep is now officially a part of G Suite for Education and integrates sweetly with Google Docs. I have been inspired by super fun posts from Alice Keeler, Matt Miller, Eric Curts, and Stephanie Filardo (see additional resources on my new Google Keep Pinterest Board.)

Google Keep is loaded with fun features that can help students get organized, track progress, take notes, and more. The infographic hits the highlights, but more details are also included below. Use this infographic as a reference and resource.

Download the Infographic

Click here to download a PDF version of the infographic.

15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep

Below are some more specific details for each of the fifteen ways mentioned in the infographic.
1. Time Management and To Do Lists:
This one may seem very obvious, but helping students learn how to manage their time and get things done is a very important skill. Google Keep will help students track their assignment tasks, set up reminders, so they don't forget and manage their time in and out of class.
2. Bookmarking (use the Chrome extension)
The Google Keep Chrome extension makes it easy to bookmark a web page and add it to your Google Keep notepad. This is particularly useful for saving relevant classroom websites, tutorials, and resources that students need for particular assignments and throughout the year.
3. Vocabulary and Spelling Lists
Google Keep makes it easy to keep lists, so this is a no-brainer! Students can keep their spelling and vocabulary lists and easily access it from any device to study.
4. Location-Based Reminders
Not only does Google Keep allow you to set up time and date reminders to remember all of your due dates, but it will also help you remember to complete tasks when you arrive at a certain location. For instance, students may need to remember to talk to a certain teacher when they arrive at school in the morning. With a location-based reminder, Google Keep will send a notification to your device when you arrive at that location. To learn how to set up location-based reminders, visit this support page.
5. Class Notes
This may seem like another obvious suggestion but think beyond old school class notes. In Google Keep, students can jot down quick notes to themselves about a particular class or subject. They can then share those notes with other students in their group or class. Notes can even be completely collaborative! (Notes are so much more powerful when you share!) Take that one step further when your notes get too long, you can copy over to a Google Doc. Boom! G Suite power!
6. Project Management
As we move to more project-based learning initiatives, it is important to help students and teachers track and manage those projects. With Google Keep, students can easily keep track of each project, tasks, notes, and due dates. These notes can be shared with the teacher so he/she can monitor progress and help students learn how to manage big projects.
7. Genius Hour
Genius Hour moves beyond just managing projects. Google Keep can help students through each stage of the process. Students can use Keep for brainstorming ideas, research, drawing a prototype, tracking progress, reminders and due dates, taking notes, reflection and more!
8. Tracking Learning Goals
No matter what you call them, student objectives, learning targets, or goals, we all know how important it is to help students understand what they are and recognize success when they reach them. Teachers can create notes and lists of learning goals for a particular unit and share with the class. Students can then refer to these throughout the unit, confer with their teacher to ensure they reach them, and celebrate success! Bonus idea: Add badges and images to Keep to gamify the process. (I'm still working on some ideas for this one!)
9. Research Notecards
The research process is not easy, nor is it easy to teach. Number two above suggested using Google Keep for bookmarking, but let's take this a step further. Students can use Google Keep as their digital notecards, not only bookmarking, but adding notes, citations, page numbers, etc. What a great way to help streamline the research process.
10. Reading Logs
Reading logs are great for keeping students accountable and tracking progress. Use Google Keep to log titles, dates and duration, the number of pages, or whatever else you normally have students track on paper.
11. Annotation and Illustration
Google Keep has this super cool feature that allows you to draw, and it will also allow you to draw on top of an image. This means we can annotate and illustrate learning! Think of all the possibilities! Students can demonstrate their learning with a drawing, think through a process by drawing a mind map, or upload an image of a reading passage, life cycle, map, etc. to annotate! Learn more about drawing from the Google Support Center and my Google Keep Cheat Sheet.
12. Daily Habits and Tasks
We have a lot of daily tasks and procedures in our classrooms-the things we do every day, like bellringers and warmups, writing down the agenda, silent sustained reading, journals, etc.. What if we put these into a daily checklist for students to help them create habits? This is also an excellent way to create other types of habits as well, like remembering to take your backpack home, drink water, exercise, etc.
13. Group Projects
Collaboration has always been the number one feature of G Suite. No other product comes close! Google Keep is no different. When it comes to managing group projects, let's give students the tools to succeed. Google Keep can help the group share and create notes, assign tasks, remember due dates, and hold each other accountable!
14. Mobile Voice Notes
Voice Notes is a feature available in the iOS and Android mobile apps (not currently available on the desktop version). This is a great way for students to take notes on the go, on a field trip, record word pronunciations, practice reading aloud for fluency, and more. Plus, voice notes can help some of our students who struggle with writing and typing. Of course, voice recording is also a great way for our little ones to talk about their learning, tell stories, and leave notes.
15. Journaling
Reflection is such an important piece of the learning process! Students can use Google Keep for daily journaling and writing reflections on daily learning, projects, self-assess their progress, and share what they did well and what they could improve upon.

How are you using Google Keep in the Classroom? Please share in the comments below!

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PinterestHelp Students Get Organized, Track Progress, Take Notes, and more with Google Keep! Google Keep is a robust G Suite tool that can help teachers and students create and share notes, lists, and reminders. There are so many possibilities that I decided to put together this post and infographic with ideas for how Google Keep can ...

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Choose a random winner from those who fill out your Google Form. Use this Add-on I coded in Google Apps Script to automatically select a winner, create a spreadsheet listing the winner and 19 runner ups and receive an email with the winner and links to the Form and spreadsheet.

If you are having participants at an event fill out an evaluation form you can use this Add-on to randomly select people for a drawing. Randomly select a student in class to share about their work.

Template

alicekeeler.com/randomwinner

In order to use this template you must use the above link to create your Google Form or copy and paste my code from the script editor into the script editor of your existing Google Form. Note: Your form MUST automatically collect responses in order for this code to work.

Create Your Form

The link above will prompt you to make a copy of my Google Form template. Create your form questions just as you normally would.

Collect Responses

Just as you normally would, have people fill out the form.

Choose a Random Responder

At any point after collecting responses, use the puzzle piece icon in the Google Form to run the Add-on "Choose Random Responder."

The Add-on will randomly select a winner from all form responses. A pop-up will indicate who won, by email address. The pop-up will also tell you the response number.

Individual Responses

In the Google Form, click on "Responses" and then click on "Individual" to see the individual responses. There is a spot to arrow to each of the individual responses. You can type in the winner's response number and press enter to jump to that person's response.

Spreadsheet of Winners

Each time you use the Add-on a spreadsheet is created. You will receive an email with the link to the winner spreadsheet. The Add-on chooses one random winner and 19 runner ups. (There may be duplicates, the formula does not take into consideration if someone has already been chosen.) Use the spreadsheet to view the 19 runner ups.

Add the Add-on to YOUR Google Form

If you already have a Google Form, you will need to copy and paste the code into your Form.
If you used my template you do NOT need to do these directions.

Open the code and use Control A to select all. Use Control C to copy.

In the Google Form, click on the 3 dots icon in the upper right. Choose "Script editor." You will want to paste (Control V) the code into the script editor.

In the script editor you will need to do a few things.

1. Suggestion to remove the default function already there. (Control A, delete).
It does not matter if you leave it there, but you also don't want it in the way of your code.

2. NAME the script. What you name it is what shows up in the Add-on menu. I named mine "Choose Random Responder."

3. Click SAVE. It's in the toolbar.

4. Select the "onInstall" function from the toolbar. It probably says "Select function."

5. Run the script. You want to install the Add-on. Press the triangle icon in the toolbar.

6. Close the script editor, you don't need it anymore.

You need to do this PER FORM. This Add-on is NOT available in the market place.

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Choose a random winner from those who fill out your Google Form. Use this Add-on I coded in Google Apps Script to automatically select a winner, create a spreadsheet listing the winner and 19 runner ups and receive an email with the winner and links to the Form and spreadsheet.

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Shut the Front Door (Again)! Updated Differentiation with Google Forms!

UPDATED March 2017! There are so many amazing things we can do with Google Forms. One of my favorite features allows us to differentiate a form for students, meaning we can send students to different questions and pages of information based on how they answer each question. It can get complicated very fast, so hang on tight for some tutorials, details, and classroom application ideas!

Note: The original post was inspired by a comment I received during my "Digital Differentiation with Google Apps," session at the Texas Google Summit in Brenham, Texas. Michael Ogg, aka @PrincipalOgg, shouted, "Shut the front door," when I showed how to use branching in Google forms. Thanks, Michael for one of the best comments I've ever had during a presentation, and for giving me a great title!

What is Branching in Google Forms?

Branching in Google Forms is a way to send a respondent to a different page or question based on how they answer. You have probably experienced this type of strategy if you have taken a survey that takes you to more specific questions based on how you answered basic questions. For instance, if I asked, "Do you teach elementary, middle, or high school?", I could then take you to another question to ask what subject area you teach based on your level.

To the left is a visualization of branching in Google Forms (created with Google Drawings). Each answer option could add another branch. The branches can go in as many directions as you like and can get complicated very quickly. This is just to give you an idea of why it is called branching and the importance of planning your "branches." Be sure you keep reading and take note of the tips below!

To get an idea of how this can be used, I have created a sample form, " Google Drive Review." This is just one way this feature can be used to help students review material. For instance, if a student answers incorrectly, they can be taken to a review video and be given the chance to answer the question again. Note: my sample form is very short, and just for example purposes (more application ideas included further down.) CLICK HERE to take the review and see how branching works. (Hint! Answer incorrectly, to see where that takes you.)

I designed this quiz as a review example for Google Drive. If respondents answer incorrectly, as indicated in this image, they will then be taken to a review page with a YouTube tutorial. (Yes, you can insert YouTube videos!) Then they will be asked to answer the question again, as seen in the image below. Respondents will keep reviewing the skill until they get the question correct, and then they move on to the next question.

How to Use Branching in Google Forms:

Google Forms doesn't actually call this branching. So if you are searching for this in settings, you will not find it. Branching is really just the concept. In order to send students/respondents to another option based on how they answer, you have to create new pages or, "sections" in your form. This is the key to making branching work! This little setting can make a BIG difference and can offer ways to use Google Forms to differentiate for students.

In Google Forms, you can enable branching for multiple choice or dropdown question types by selecting, " Go to SECTION based on answer. " (formerly, "Go to PAGE based on answer," in the old forms.)

To see how this works:

1. Create your first question. (Note: This option is only available for multiple choice or dropdown questions types.)

2. Then go to the three dots in the bottom right of the question box and select: Go to section based on answer. (See the animated GIF below.)

3. Make the question "Required."

4. Shuffle answer options to help discourage cheating. (Optional, but recommended.)

Now that you see how the process works within the question, it's time to plan and create your sections. The key to making this work is to create section breaks. Notice in the animation above, the dropdown that appears next to each answer choice once you enable, "Go to section based on answer." You can only choose another section once the other sections have been created. Again, planning is your best friend in branching! Plan you branches and sections, then go add each section to your form.

1. Using the menu to the left of your question, click on the bottom icon to "add section." You will see sections added below and numbered accordingly.

2. Add as many sections as you need.

Add Section Title and Descriptions

I cannot emphasize how much adding a title, and description to each section helps before you go back to each answer and choose a section. This will help keep your organized. Remember, this can get complicated very quickly and staying organized will help greatly.

To add a section title and description, simple click on each section title and description box to get the cursor and edit. Note how I named my sections in the example given above. I titled them, "Question 1", or "Question 1: Review the Skill." Depending on how you decide to use this feature, your titles may need to be even more specific.

Match Sections to Answers in Each Question

Here's where those titles come in handy! Now, you need to go back to each question (enable, "go to section based on answer," if you haven't already) and then select which section each answer will lead to next. By default they will all just progress to the next section. Once you get this pattern down, it is very easy to do. Again, planning this ahead of time will make this process so much easier!

Branching Tips (PLEASE READ!)

Start small, just a few questions.

I cannot say this enough! The first time you try this, do not do more than five questions. I repeat. This gets very complicated very quickly!

Plan or Map out your branches before you begin.

Planning is your best friend when it comes to branching. Decide ahead of time how many answer options and how many "branches," you need or want. Plan it out on paper, in Google Drawings like I did above, or using your own preferred tool.

Utilize the page titles and descriptions to help you organize.

As mentioned above, this can save you time and frustration if you use consistent and specific titles and descriptions for each title.

Test it! Then, test it again!

Now you have to test it. Test every answer option in every question. Then send it to a friend or colleage to test it. It's so easy to miss one little thing. Testing is a must!

Other Ways to Use "Go to Section," Feature

The possibilities of this feature are endless. There are so many other ways you could use, "Go to section based on answer," besides the review style I showed in my example. Below are a few ideas to get you thinking about possibilities for your class.

When a student answers correctly, they could be taken to a harder question.

When a student answers incorrectly, you could show more specifically where they went wrong with each answer choice (not just review a concept)-like solving a math problem incorrectly.

Student choice: Use this feature to allow students to select from a menu of choices to demonstrate their learning, then upload the file to the form to submit. The spreadsheet would allow you to see what they select and should be working on during class.

Gamify! What if every correct answer revealed a clue or a puzzle piece? Students could collect and work individually or collaboratively to put together.

Put this feature in students' hands and let them create something for their class, or another class to teach a skill, or play a game.

Sylvia Duckworth's Choose Your Own Adventure with Google Forms

How could you use this feature in your classroom? Please share in the comments below.

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Shut the Front Door (Again)! Updated Differentiation With Google Forms

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There are so many amazing things we can do with Google Forms. One of my favorite features allows us to differentiate a form for students, meaning we can send students to different questions and pages of information based on how they answer each question.

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It was a lot to manage student work on Google Drive before Classroom. I did it because I believed in the power of what collaborative online word processing could do for the learning process. The feedback that I could give was so much more efficient and thorough using Google Docs. But it certainly took patience and hard work to teach students how to share in folders.

The following year, Google Classroom was released and my workload lost a heavy weight. Although I had a lot to learn about what would work and what would not, Classroom allowed me to communicate and push materials to kids more efficiently than any other platform, including Edmodo and Moodle.

This year has been different. I'm in a school where students already have experience with Drive and Classroom. Many of them already had these apps on their mobile devices. It was this additional weight lifted that allowed me to focus on making better choices and make a better Google Classroom stream for my students.

Here are some of the things I've done differently this year.

1. One Agenda Post per week

The stream can become cluttered rather quickly. Since Google hasn't applied a labeling system to the stream, like Keep or Gmail, students have to scroll to find he post. I know. Poor kids. They have to scroll a bit to access the instructional agenda and materials. Give them a break. Their executive functions need some help here and there.

Honestly, one post per week helps me access it quickly, too. If I need students to access materials for only a part of a lesson, I make a separate post and delete it later. Sometimes I leave it and move the weekly post to the top, which is a helpful feature similar to pinning a post.

The co-teaching option was a feature that I would have loved last year - better late than never. I co-taught a special-ed history class last semester and was able to add the special-ed teacher as a teacher. Although the teacher was not much for using technology, he was able to see the efficiency. It also saved me from having to email him what we were doing every week.

This semester, I have a classroom paraprofessional access to the materials, which helps reduce the questions and time spent explaining what could be read from the stream.

3. Questions

Exit tickets. Paragraph Responses. One-sentence summaries. Thesis statements. The list goes on and on as to how this tool (type of post )can be used. The best part is how easy it is for me to read submissions, provide feedback, and return the work with a couple clicks. No papers lost. No folders taken home where the dog will come in from outside on a rainy day and ruin the work inside (true story).

Here are some ways you can use the question tool.

4. Using the "About" Page

The About page is useful for materials that you want students to access throughout the course. I used to make single item posts. I recently noticed that you can post several attachments to a post and edit the description.

This may sound like and obvious oversight, but it's how we learn. I continuously analyze the way I'm communicating with my students and making adjustments to improve wherever I can.

Kids are always asking for a review. Even though I share a link to a Google Drive folder with unit guides, kids still ask for one. It can be so bad that I literally have to quiz them on the whereabouts of materials because they're not used to teachers using Classroom efficiently, yet.

That's why I make a separate post a few days before an exam. The post includes slide presentations, the unit guide, selected YouTube videos not in the presentations, and links to Quizlet decks.

The Chrome extension is new to me. So far, I use it when we find a resource during class and I want to push it to the students without leaving the resource (usually websites).

7. Polling

The newest addition to the Classroom platform is a step in the right direction. One question is limiting, but it's a quicker return on student feedback than reading a constructed response from a question post. For example, if you want to know the confidence level of the students, write the question response choices as a scale.

I haven't done much with this tool at this point in the year. But I can see the potential. It's quicker to make a question than forms, and perhaps eventually forms will be integrated into Classroom. How awesome would that be?

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160+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students

I have put together a Google Chrome App and Extension Database for Teachers hat is loaded with apps and extensions for productivity and classroom integration. In this post, you will find 160+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students! This database is searchable and filterable by category, subject area, and grade level!

If you have followed this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I love the Google Chrome web browser! Google Chrome is the learning environment for all things Google and allows you to customize your browser to fit your needs. Better yet, Google Chrome can be customized to fit the needs of our student learners.

The magic of that customization comes from the Chrome Apps and Chrome Extensions available in the Chrome Web Store.

I encourage you to explore the Chrome Web Store periodically for new apps and extensions to bring to your classroom. On the left-hand side, you will find categories, including a category for education.

Check out some of my previous Chrome posts:

What are Chrome Apps?

Apps are often enhanced shortcuts that optimize the website or app within the browser. Some require additional installation and set-up. Chrome must be running to access these applications. Below are a few of my favorite Google Chrome Apps.

What are Chrome Extensions?

Extensions are installed in the browser and give you added features and abilities to customize your browser.

Warning! Running too many extensions at once can slow your computer down. This list is a great place to start, but pick and choose what ones you need or want to try. And be sure to grab the Extensity extension so you can turn extensions off when you do not need them.

The Chrome Apps & Extensions Database

For a while, I have kept a list of my favorite apps and favorite extensions on this site, but my list just keeps growing! It has grown so much that a list just doesn't cut it anymore. I needed to find a way to help teachers find the best Chrome apps and extensions to fit the needs of their students, classrooms, and their own productivity. Thus, the Chrome Apps and Extensions Database was born.

The database includes 160 Apps and Extensions and is searchable and filterable. I do not recommend every app and extension for every teacher. Rather, use this as a guide to find what works for you, your classroom and your students. There is something in here for everyone.

BTW, Did you know that Shake Up Learning has it's very own Chrome extension? Get it here and stay up-to-date with all of the Shake Up Learning posts.

Right now, you will find this database is heavy in productivity tools. This is where I need your help. Help me make this database even better by sharing your favorite apps and extensions for your grade levels and subject areas. Please share with me and I will continue to add to this database so that it is loaded with resources for all educators. CLICK HERE to submit your favorite Chrome Apps & Extensions.

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160+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students

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I have put together a Google Chrome App and Extension Database for Teachers that is loaded with apps and extensions for productivity and classroom integration. Google Chrome can be customized to fit the needs of our student learners. The database includes 100+ Apps and Extensions and is searchable and filterable.

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If you are having students do work in small groups the activity may require a collaborative document for the students to work on. Manually creating documents for each group can be challenging.
alicekeeler.com/groupdocs
To make the process of assigning students to groups and getting them going on editing the group's template easier I coded an Add-on script: Group Docs Maker. This allows you to copy and paste your roster of students into the spreadsheet and automatically create a copy of a template for each group. Each group members name is automagically appended to the document title.

Steps

1. Create a copy of the Group Docs Maker template above (it's a spreadsheet).

2. Copy roster from Google Classroom.

3. Paste roster into the Group Docs Maker spreadsheet.

4. Optionally, set a code to designate which group each student is in.

5. Use the Add-on menu and choose "Group Maker."

6. In the sidebar menu are 2 buttons. Choose to make random groups or nonrandom groups. Press the button.

7. Attach the spreadsheet as "Students can view file" in Google Classroom assignment.

Using the Group Docs Maker you do NOT need to individually attach the students' group documents. The students can find their name on the spreadsheet and click on the link next to their name to open the group document. They do not need to turn in the group document since you are the owner and can easily locate all of the group documents from the spreadsheet. The documents are only accessible to you and the specific group of students. If a student in group 3 tries to open another group's document they will be denied permission.

Updates

If you've used Group Docs Maker in the past, I have made some updates to the Add-on script.

Instead of asking for "Name" it allows you to enter First and Last name. This allows you to copy and paste your roster right from Google Classroom.

The first and last names are collapsed into a single column automatically.

You can now pick your document you want to copy for each group. No more having to obtain the document ID. (WAY EASIER)

Directions

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If you are having students do work in small groups the activity may require a collaborative document for the students to work on. Manually creating documents for each group can be challenging. Group Docs Maker Template alicekeeler.com/groupdocs To make the process of assigning students to groups and getting them going on editing the group's template easier ...

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I went through my Chrome extensions and made a list of them. I opened all of the extensions in the Chrome Web Store in a single window and then used the OneTab Chrome extension to collapse them into a list.

http://www.one-tab.com/page/A7QiMO9uT1m259T_Iy_ZRg

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Google Chrome Extensions: A Big Ol List - Teacher Tech

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I went through my Chrome extensions and made a list of them. I opened all of the extensions in the Chrome Web Store in a single window and then used the OneTab Chrome extension to collapse them into a list. http://www.one-tab.com/page/A7QiMO9uT1m259T_Iy_ZRg Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2016

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Create Quizzes, Polls, and Forms from Google Docs

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Create Quizzes, Polls, and Forms from Google Docs

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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March 9, 2017
GFormIt is an excellent Google Docs add-on to use for auto-generating forms from your Google documents. We have tried it multiple times and it worked perfectly well but its only limitation is that it supports only one type of questions. As a teacher, you may want to use it to create quizzes and exams. You can also use it as a formative assessment tool to help you gather feedback from your students using polls and surveys created out of questions from a Google document.

The way GFormIt works is very simple: after you install it, open a Google document, write down your questions, featuring each question in a separate line '(and optionally an answer on the next line). Add a blank lines in-between each question or question-and-answer pair. Then choose "GFormIt for Docs" from the "Add-ons" menu and "Generate Form" to create the Google Form and Google Sheet for responses. Upon completion, those auto-generated documents will show up in your Google Drive, and a convenient e-mail with links will be sent to you. More information is available by selecting "About GFormIt" or "Help" from the menu as well as at edcode.org..'

Watch the video below to learn more about GFormIt

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Here Is An Excellent Tool to Easily Create Quizzes, Polls and Forms from Google Docs

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March 9, 2017 GFormIt is an excellent Google Docs add-on to use for auto-generating forms from your Google documents. We have tried it multiple times and it worked perfectly well but its only limitation is that it supports only one type of questions.

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Turn Google Spreadsheets into Flashcards

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Turn Google Spreadsheets into Flashcards

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Flippity.net: Flashcards and Other Resources for Educators and Learners

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Create an interactive virtual breakout activity.

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You can get up and running with Google Classroom in less than 3 minutes. Go to http://classroom.google.com. Click on the plus icon in the upper right and choose "Create class." Click on the plus icon in the bottom right to add an assignment. Go to the Students tab to get the class code. Share the code with students.

So what do you do next? While essentially Google Classroom allows you to assign work and collect it, that is not transforming teaching and learning. As teachers, we are designers of the learning environment. Google Classroom is one tool that can help us design a different learning environment to improve student learning.

Try a Go Slow Workshop

Go to alicekeeler.com/events to find the next online interactive workshop for "Next Steps with Google Classroom." Instead of 6 hours of PD all at once, practice your next steps with Google Classroom by learning a little, trying it with your students and coming back and learning something else over a 6 week period.

Improve Interactions

Use Google Classroom to improve interactions with students. Don't strive for a paperless classroom, there is no virtue in that. Ask, how does this make learning BETTER? One of the most important things we do as teachers is to build relationships with students. This makes a HUGE difference in student motivation and learning.

Stop Giving Directions

Attaching a directions document helps students to be more independent learners and allows you to use your time differently. Time spend talking WITH students rather than AT students improves relationships and learning. Your time is most valuable working with kids instead of directing students what to do.

I use my words to encourage students and increase critical thinking.

Ask Questions

Use the "Create question" option to hear from the ENTIRE class rather than the same 2 or 3 students. Give students time to THINK.

Design for Collaboration

I like to describe G Suite and Google Apps not as "productivity software" but rather "collaboration software." Google is designed for collaboration!! When attaching files choose the middle option "Students can edit file." This has all students editing the SAME document. I recommend using Google Slides or Google Sheets. More than 5 people in a Google text document is too much.

Students can collaborate easily on individual documents by clicking on the blue share button in a document and adding the email address (username) of a peer. Alternatively, attach group documents into an individual assignment

Create a copy for each group quickly using my CopyDocs for Classes script. Type in the group names and use the "Make copies" menu to quickly make copies in Google Drive.

alicekeeler.com/copydocsclasses

Give Feedback

The faster the feedback the better the learning. Oftentimes tomorrow is too late. Students become less emotionally invested in their work the longer the gap between completing work and receiving feedback. By tomorrow, many students just don't care anymore. Feedback comments go unread or don't sink in to impact learning.

As often as possible (and it is not reasonable on every assignment) give students feedback while they are working rather than after. The impact of your feedback comments is greatly magnified. Google Classroom gives you access to student work the second they start working on it. You do not need them to turn in their work, you have it! Click on the assignment title in the Stream to access the students' documents. Insert comments on their documents while they are working on them.

One of the best features, in my opinion, of Google Classroom after collaboration is Private Comments. Click on the assignment title of any assignment in the Stream and locate the roster of students on the left-hand side. Click on any student to find a spot to provide a private comment to that student. What I particularly love about comments in G Suite is that they are not comments, they are conversations. I filter my Gmail for Private Comments so I can respond quickly to students. This has made a huge impact on student motivation and learning, I recommend it!

Self-Grading

If you can not give feedback while the student is working use tools that do the grading for you. Feedback now is better than feedback later. You can recreate the paper task in Google Forms and turn on Quizzes self-grading to give students immediate feedback after they are done. Observing one teacher grading a stack of science quizzes, I was able to recreate the quiz in Google Forms in LESS TIME than it took her to grade ONE quiz. Let me say that again. FASTER than grading ONE quiz. Granted I'm fast and I know what I'm doing but it would still be faster to use Google Forms than to grade the entire stack.

Don't be a Google fanboy, be a learning fanboy! Sometimes Google is not the best tool! Personally, I prefer other tools for self-grading. Google Forms with Quizzes or using Flubaroo with the Google Form provides the answers AFTER the student finishes the quiz/worksheet. This is NOT as good as getting feedback question by question. It is soul sucking to do multiple problems in a row and then find out you didn't do them right. Unless a student has high self-efficacy (not very many of our students do) students do not study the summary at the end and learn from the mistakes. Instead, they focus on their score.

I used Quia.com to type up all my math book questions, quizzes, worksheets, and tests so that students would get feedback NOW not feedback later. Try out Kahoot, Quizizz, Formative, or one of many other digital tools that do the grading for you.

Spending your time grading things a computer can do is NOT your best talent as a teacher. Instead use the data to target students for help more quickly.

Workshops

Learn more by taking one of my interactive workshops or catch me at a conference. You can find my presentation schedule at alicekeeler.com/events

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You can get up and running with Google Classroom in less than 3 minutes. Go to http://classroom.google.com. Click on the plus icon in the upper right and choose "Create class." Click on the plus icon in the bottom right to add an assignment. Go to the Students tab to get the class code.

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I like to think that I'm really really good with using Google Apps. I know that when you create a new document it is by default private. You have to click on the blue Share button and change the sharing permissions to " Anyone with the link can view. " This takes several steps. If you want to share the document, say on Twitter, you need to copy the URL as an additional step. I can do this fairly quickly but I get ahead of myself sometimes with excitement to share something and forget to change the sharing permissions. #facepalm

Save the Facepalm

My newest Chrome Extension, AnyoneCanView, changes the sharing permissions to "Anyone with the link can view" and copies the URL to the clipboard in one click!

AnyoneCanView

Link to Chrome Webstore

Install the AnyoneCanView Chrome extension and click the icon the next time you're using Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides or a Google Drawing. Instantly the document is visible to anyone with the link and copies the link to the clipboard.

Alice's Chrome Extensions

Check out all my chrome extensions at alicekeeler.com/webstore

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I like to think that I'm really really good with using Google Apps. I know that when you create a new document it is by default private. You have to click on the blue Share button and change the sharing permissions to " Anyone with the link can view.

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1. Force a Copy

When I create templates I like to share the templates in a way that prompts the user to create a copy. Notice if you go to alicekeeler.com/poo that it does not take you directly to the document but rather asks you to copy it first.

To accomplish this remove the /edit at the end of a Google Apps URL and change it to /copy.

Example:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RbBc22bEPp8eDoAhR3y7NnP4h7ThEz4TvZQIO9SsCiM/ edit#gid=149517262

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RbBc22bEPp8eDoAhR3y7NnP4h7ThEz4TvZQIO9SsCiM/ copy

I will usually create a short URL such as tinyurl.com or goo.gl out of the long Google Apps URL where I have modified the URL with slash copy.

2. Filter Google Drive

In the search bar of Google Drive (tip: use the slash key on your keyboard to put your cursor automatically in the search bar) is a tiny triangle. This allows you to filter by file type, date modified, or who you've shared a document with.

3. Add Clip Art

In Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drawings you can add clip art images. When inserting an image look for the "Search" option. First search for an image. After the search results come up notice there is an option for filtering the image type. The default is "Any type" but this can be changed to "Clip art."

4. Utilize Revision History

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings have a revision history. (Not on Forms, sorry.) This shows the edit history of the document.

This is an important feature when collaborating with others. Do not be afraid of collaborators "messing up" the document. Use the File menu to "See revision history" and "Restore this revision" for a time when the document was not messed up.

5. Control Slash

In Google Apps you can hold down the Control key and press slash (/) to open up keyboard shortcuts. Learn one keyboard shortcut a week, you'll be a ninja at the end of the year!

6. Plus Mention

When making comments in a Google Doc, Sheets, Slides, Drawing or Google Classroom you can mention someone to direct their attention to the comment. Start with a plus sign followed by their email address. +bob@myschool.org

A new feature when adding a plus mention to a comment is the ability to assign as a task to the person.

Notice in Google Drive you can filter your documents for items that need to be followed up. Follow up on "Action items only" shows you documents that someone has assigned you a task in a plus mention comment.

Next to the document title in Google Drive is a badge indicating how many action items you have in that document. Click on the badge to move to the action item.

7. Document Outline

When typing in a Google Doc utilize headings to outline the important parts of your document. Not only does this make your document more accessible for screen readers but Google Docs will automatically populate a table of contents.

The document outline (table of contents) appears on the left-hand side. Click on the headings in the outline to jump to that portion of the document.

8. Explore Tool in Slides

In Google Slides the Explore tool does more than just search the web (it does that too). It uses machine learning to read the content of the slide and suggest attractive slide layouts. As you change the content on the slide the slide layout suggestions change.

9. Use Templates

You can create documents using Google Drive but you can also go straight to the product website to create documents.
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In each of these is an attractive interface to filter for that document type and also a template gallery. Locate the link to the template gallery in the upper right corner.

10. Explore Data in Google Sheets

Select data in a Google Sheets spreadsheet and use the Explore tool (bottom-right) to answer questions about your data. Ask in plain English.

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10 Google Apps Tricks to Learn for 2017 - Teacher Tech

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When I create templates I like to share the templates in a way that prompts the user to create a copy. Notice if you go to alicekeeler.com/poo that it does not take you directly to the document but rather asks you to copy it first.