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Today we bring you some best Chrome Extensions for Heavy Google Product Users. We already published an interesting article Top 10 Chrome Extensions to Boost your Productivity and a huge list of 50 + Best Productivity Apps to Organize your Life.

Today we are just focusing on some Chrome extensions that will be very useful if you are a heavy Google Product user. with these extensions, managing Google products will be really easy. Here we go.

This is the app I highly recommend for everyone to manage your Gmail account. It helps you to get Gmail notifications, read, listen or delete emails without opening your Gmail inbox. One of the highlights of the app is you can manage Gmail multiple accounts easily. I really loves it desktop notifications setup, It helps me to reply all important emails fast.

With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, you can save a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later. You can also take notes on saved contents. All things you saved will be available at Google Keep and it can accessible from Android and iOS.

I use Google Drive as my primary cloud storage service to save my files, documents, images, etc. With this Save to Google Drive extension save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive easily. Just right-click and select 'Save to Google Drive'.

Tag Assistant helps to troubleshoot installation of various Google tags including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Adwords and more.

It simply Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox. If you are using Checker Plus for Gmail, you may not found this as useful because checker plus shows the number of unread messages.

Running a Website or a Blog? The Page Analytics Chrome Extension allows you to see how customers interact with your web pages.One of the reasons you should use this is it will Number of active visitors, in real time In-page click analysis.

You know Google Analytics will track your visits to your own website. This could lead to false stats. This Chrome extension help you to Block your Google Analytics activity for the websites you own.

This is an all in one productivity extension that lets you View and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Once you installed the extension, Office files that you drag into Chrome, open in Gmail, Google Drive, and more, will be opened in Docs, Sheets, and Slides for viewing and editing.

This extension helps you to create Google Docs, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing and Google in just one click. It also supports Supports Google Apps domains.

The Google Cast extension enables you to find and play content on your Chromecast device from your Chrome browser.

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Top 10 Chrome Extensions for Heavy Google Product Users

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Google for Education  A solution built for teachers and students

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Here is a Word document to use as a handout with your students.

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Instructions on how to create quick checking for understanding polls in Goole Forms

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We also recently updated our Android and iOS mobile apps. Teachers can now draft any type of post or reuse existing posts from any of their classes. Android users also now have a notifications center, where they can see what's new in their classes. Plus, Android teachers can post to multiple classes.

Get in touch on Google+ or Twitter and let us know how you're using polling in your class.

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4 ways to use polling in Google Classroom

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We also recently updated our Android and iOS mobile apps. Teachers can now draft any type of post or reuse existing posts from any of their classes. Android users also now have a notifications center, where they can see what's new in their classes. Plus, Android teachers can post to multiple classes.

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Many posts on how to use Chrome, Classroom, and Drive apps.

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May 6, 2018: Google Forms: Creating a Branching Quiz

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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Google Drive is absolutely one of the essential tools in your teaching digital tool kit. Using Google Drive you can have both a cloud storage service available for you anytime anywhere together with a powerful productivity suite that includes tools to write a document, create a drawing, build a presentation, or make a spreadsheet. Now with the syncing functionalities Google introduced lately, you can start a document or presentation on your desktop and finish it in school on your iPad. For me personally there is nothing that beats it even Dropbox and Evernote are not as practical as Google Drive ( personal view ).

Coutesy of edudemic.com

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Awesome Visual on How to Use Google Drive with Students

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Google Drive is absolutely one of the essential tools in your teaching digital tool kit. Using Google Drive you can have both a cloud storage service available for you anytime anywhere together with a powerful productivity suite that includes tools to write a document, create a drawing, build a presentation, or make a spreadsheet.

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After the recent updates Google brought to its productivity suite in Google Drive things have become way more interesting there. With a slick design and the introduction of new templates your Docs and Presentations will definitely have that new refreshing feel. I have been tinkering around with some of these features and I will very soon share with you a visual guide on the how to use the new features.

Google Forms has also been revamped with a set of great updates such as the ability to insert images in Forms, you can also now integrate YouTube videos into your forms. And today we are sharing with you how to create your own rubric using Google Form.

Watch this excellent video from Alex to learn more.

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This is How to Create Rubrics Using Google Form

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January31, 2014
I came across this wonderful resource a couple of days ago through TechChef4u and after checking the forms it has I decided to share it with you. This is basically a treasure trove packed full of handy Google forms you can use with your students in the classroom. There are also forms for administrators and another selection for professional development. So those of you who do not have time to design their own forms, this page is a must bookmark for future reference. If you are not yet familiar with how to use Google Forms and want a head start, check out the resources below.

1. Google Forms for Teachers A Must Read Guide

2. 8 Steps to Create Engaging Google Forms

3. A Visual Guide to Adding Videos to Google Forms

4. Teachers Guide to Adding Images to Google Forms

5. How to Create Quizzes Using Google Forms

6. 20 Creative Ways Teachers Can Use Google Forms

7. This is How to Create Self Grading Assessment Using Google Forms

8. This is How to Create Rubrics Using Google Forms

9. Using Google Forms to Keep Track of Students Assignments

Below is a screenshot of the forms created by Molly. Molly is a technology integration specialist, Google certified teacher, and Google Apps for Education trainer. Below are some of her works :

Click HERE to access source page.

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Tons of Google Forms for Teachers, Administrators and Students

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Jeopardy Game Template for Google Slides - Apps User Group

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The Apps User Group website connects and assists schools in the use of Google Apps for Education. The site contains resources for implementing and using Google Apps, news from the Google blogs, links to schools that use Google Apps, a discussion forum, a calendar for training opportunities, and more.

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For those of you who are not familiar with google Classroom, here are some of the things you can do with this platform:

1- Teachers can use Google Classroom to create and collect assignments paperlessly.
2- Automatically make copies of Google documents for each student
3- Create Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help everyone keep organized
4- Provide direct and real-time feedback and grades
5- Keep track of who has turned in assignments
6- Quickly review assignments
7- Send announcements and start class discussions instantly
8- Students can see all of their assignments on an assignments page
9- Students can share resources with each other or provide answers to questions on the stream.
10- Students can open their assignments and work on them right from their phone or tablet.
11- Students and teachers can view their classes and communicate with their classmates in real time
12- Students can keep track of what's due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click

Watch this video to learn more about Google Classroom

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12 Ways Teachers Can use Google Classroom

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For those of you who are not familiar with google Classroom, here are some of the things you can do with this platform: 1- Teachers can use Google Classroom to create and collect assignments paperlessly.

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Create self grading assessments using Google Forms

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by TeachThought Staff
For professional development on using Google in the classroom, contact TeachThought Professional Development today to create a plan for your school.
Google Forms isn't the first thing you think of when you think of assessment.

It's not especially elegant, it won't wow students, and the learning curve isn't as mild as it might be. But with a little bit of work on the front-end, Google Forms can return the favor in spades on the back-end in the form of self-grading assessments. While there isn't an app (yet) that can uncover the true nuance of understanding, if you're using multiple-choice assessments-even just as pre and summative assessments-this trick can save you time, allowing the real potential of assessment to shine through in consistently extracting data to revise planned instruction.

Mike Reading from Google Apps For Edu gives the following itemized rundown on how to use Google Forms to accomplish exactly that in the video below.

"0:15 - What you need to get started

0:55 - How to create your self grading assessment

1:15 - Where to type your question

1:30 - How to add answers

1:45 - What does 'required question' mean?

2:00 - How to use the duplicate questions to save time

2:46 - How to add more questions to your self grading assessment

3:00 - A reminder - it is not just about the technology - it is about student engagement through feedback

3:15 - How to add a theme to your self grading assessment

3:45 - How to embed your self grading assessment into a class blog etc

4:40 - The link between a form and a spreadsheet

5:15 - Inserting the script (Flubaroo) into your spreadsheet

5:50 - How to grade the self grading assessment

6:30 - How to read the results"

Also, note on Mike's page (towards the bottom of his post) how software updates to Flubaroo have improved the way Google Forms responds to student answers.

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How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms

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by TeachThought Staff For professional development on using Google in the classroom, contact TeachThought Professional Development today to create a plan for your school. Google Forms isn't the first thing you think of when you think of assessment. It's not especially elegant, it won't wow students, and the learning curve isn't as mild as it might be.

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Installing extensions to Chrome adds amazing functionality to the browser. This allows users to personalise Chrome to suit their needs.

The Chrome Web Store has thousands of extensions to customise and improve your browsing experience.

To assist teachers become familiar with extensions I have put together the below list as a starting point.

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Ed Tech

Sometimes, we just need some help organizing our thoughts - students AND educators.

Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple people can collaborate on them in real time. They can be shared with a link, embedded in a website or downloaded as an image file.

In short, digital graphic organizers are more versatile.

In Google Apps, there's a highly powerful yet highly overlooked app called Drawings. It gives users a blank canvas where they can add text, shapes, lines, etc. When done, they can save their work as image files or PDF files and can add those images to documents, slides and spreadsheets.
Drawings can be the virtual page where students can gather and process their ideas.

I used to shy away from doing a lot of graphic organizers because it's hard to design them in Google Docs; the moment I learned that you could change the page set-up to 8.5 x 11 inches, my world CHANGED. Now I rarely use Google Docs to make *anything*; I use Google Slides by default because I can add more graphics and have better control of the overall configuration. - Amy Nolan, high school English teacher, Commerce, Texas

Creating graphic organizer templates with Google Drawings

As Amy mentioned above, Google Slides can be used to create these as well as Google Drawings. The difference - Drawings focuses on one single page; Slides has multiple slides, which allows for multiple pages.

I've created 15 of them (see links below) that can be copied, saved, changed, tweaked or completely redone to fit your needs and your students' needs. We have added 10 more that were created by the Ditch That Textbook community and shared with us for this post.

It took me about 90 minutes to make 15 of them so that averages out to six minutes each. (Some were more time-consuming than others, and I got faster at making them as I progressed.)

Sharing your Google Drawings graphic organizers
Once you've created a graphic organizer (or have saved one of mine), there are a few easy ways to get them to your students:

If you use Google Classroom, create a new assignment and choose the option to deliver a copy of your graphic organizer to each student.

You can copy the URL (link) to the graphic organizer and deliver it to students via a class website, SeeSaw etc. You can also make a shorter, easier URL to type with URL shorteners like Bitly and TinyURL. (Check your Internet filter to make sure your shortened URLs come through. I've found that TinyURL works in most schools' filters.)

Using the blue "Share" button, click the "Get shareable link" button and set the document as "Anyone with the link" at the top and "Can view" at the bottom. That way, students won't be able to change your original copy and will have to make a copy of their own.

PRO TIP: When you copy a URL (link) to any G Suite file, it probably says "view" or "edit" at the end of it. If you change that word to "copy", it will force whoever opens that link to make a copy of the file instead of opening your file. That's another trick to keeping your original version from being altered. (If you assign it through Google Classroom, you won't need to do this.)

Here are 25 graphic organizer templates that can be used for many different subject areas and grade levels.

Feel free to make a copy of any of these google drawings templates and adapt them for your own use:

Question: What other graphic organizers would be useful to create in Google Drawings? Can you share a link to a graphic organizer you've created so others can use it, too? Leave a comment below!

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August 28, 2015
Here is another back-to-school goodie for teachers. This is basically a selection of some of the best educational Google Drive apps to use in your instruction. As is the case with Mac, Chromebook, and Chrome lists, all of these apps have been covered in separate review posts in the past and are also deemed to be among the most popular among teachers and educators based on the feedback we received following their publication.

"This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action."

MindMeister is a very good tool students can use to create mindmaps and brainstorm complex topics. Mind maps can include a wide variety of multimedia including: text, images, icons, links, and attachments. It also supports offline editing and syncing. Mind maps can be exported to Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and in the form of an image.

GeoGebra (www.geogebra.org) is free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Interactive learning, teaching and evaluation resources created with GeoGebra can be shared and used by everyone at tube.geogebra.org.

DocHub is anther excellent Google Drive tool for filling, editing, and signing PDFs. Compared with similar tools out there in Chrome web store, DocHub is way easier and simpler to handle. You can use it for a variety of purposes including: signing PDFs, highlighting text, inserting images, commenting and adding pages to PDFs and many more.

WeVideo is good app to use for editing videos. With WeVideo you can import media files you have stored on Drive, Dropbox and edit them the way you want. You can trim clips, split long clips into smaller ones, insert text for titles and captions in different languages, record voice-overs, add professional themes to your videos, add music, transitions and many more.

"Pixlr Express is a fun and powerful photo editor that lets you quickly crop, resize, and fine-tune any picture, all in a completely ad-free experience. Choose from over 2 million combinations of free effects, overlays, and borders to further personalize your images. Pixlr Express makes you look like a pro, even if you've never edited a photo before. "

"Powtoon is a video animation software and a presentation animation software. You can easily create a simple animated video and then convert it into an animated presentation!"
8- RealtimeBoard: Whiteboard for Collaboration

"RealtimeBoard is your online whiteboard for visual team collaboration. Add pictures, mockups, drawings, videos, sticky notes, office documents and Google Drive files on an endless canvas, discuss it with your colleagues, and enjoy the smoothest real time visual collaboration without emails."
9- Drive Template Gallery

You can use the Google Drive Template Gallery to create your document, spreadsheet, presentation, or form. Whether you need a resume and cover letter, an invoice, a birthday card, or any of a wide variety of templates, our gallery can help you get your doc started. After connecting this app to Google Drive you will be able to access the Google Apps Template Gallery directly from the "Create" menu inside Google Drive.

Lucidchart is an HTML5-based visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Work together with an unlimited number of others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced instantaneously -- great for team collaboration.

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10 Excellent Google Drive Apps Teachers Should Try This School Year

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August 28, 2015 Here is another back-to-school goodie for teachers. This is basically a selection of some of the best educational Google Drive apps to use in your instruction.