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From Alice Keeler, allows you to grab what students wrote into a Google Doc and put all of the responses into a spreadsheet.  http://alicekeeler.com/2016/12/05/google-classroom-pull-student-paragraphs-give-feedback/

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https://info.flipgrid.com/
This webside allows teachers to make a video and written prompt for students, then they click a plus button and
they can create an audiovisual response using the camera and mic on their device. There is even an app for phones or ipads. You can create a classroom or just elicit responses by sharing a login code for your grid topics. Great way to get oracy into your assessments.

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50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach

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50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach

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Create Guided lessons that students can access at their own pace

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Tes provides a range of primary and secondary school teaching resources including lesson plans, worksheets and student activities for all curriculum subjects.

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Create unique learning experiences you could share in your Google Classroom!

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The coolest way to create formative assessments!!!

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Turn any video into a lesson!

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Great resource to help develop critical reading/research skills!

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Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

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Have Chromebooks? Want to be able to see/edit Microsoft Office products? Check out this add-on

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Create visual word clouds for any document that has more than 50 words. Great way to teach main idea and key details!

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Tanya Gupta, learnin60seconds.com

Generates a downloadable word cloud, other features include control over number of words, dropping words auto pretty & word tables

Use this add-on to quickly assess what your emerging theme is, how to best categorize your document, or if it is someone's else's document - find out the theme of the document without reading it. Download it with the click of a button

The #1 Word Cloud add-on for Google Docs just got tricked out. Loads of new features including colorful clouds, downloads in two sizes and your choice of palettes. You also have control over number of words, dropping words and including a word count table in the document.

We have completely revamped the code and added several new features. You can:
->Download the word cloud
->Insert in document in two sizes
->Download to your computer for use in other applications
->Use an Advanced Tab that lets you play with the word cloud
->Choose your favorite palette
->Control the # of words you want to display in the cloud
->Drop specific words (with type ahead help)
->Insert a word count table in the document

We now have  a word cloud web app in the chrome store (https://wordtagcloud.com). This free app can generate word clouds from web pages, google docs and even most pdf and image files.

Tanya Gupta, learnin60seconds.com

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Word Cloud Generator - G Suite Marketplace

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Tanya Gupta, learnin60seconds.com Generates a downloadable word cloud, other features include control over number of words, dropping words auto pretty & word tables Use this add-on to quickly assess what your emerging theme is, how to best categorize your document, or if it is someone's else's document - find out the theme of the document without reading it.

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Turn bulleted lists into Mind Maps/Graphicly organize your thinking

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MindMeister lets you turn any bullet-point list into a visually appealing mind map and insert it into your Google Document.

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Student research has never been easier

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

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Check grammar and spelling as you type!

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Categories

All Recommended for you Accessibility Blogging Developer Tools Fun News & Weather Photos Productivity Search Tools Shopping Social & Communication Sports

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Grammarly: Grammar Checker and Writing App

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Improve your writing with Grammarly's communication assistance. Spell check, grammar check, punctuation check, and more.

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Shares Screens/Computers so you can quickly present student or group work

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Easy to make project rubrics that you can share in your Google Classroom!

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This extension launches the Goobric web app, a rubric based assessment tool that works with the Doctopus Add-on for Google Sheets.

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Differentiation/Grading Projects made easy

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Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, monitor student progress, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive.

Its tentacles copy and "hand out" Drive files to a roster of students, giving teachers full control over starter template, sharing configuration, folder organization and file naming, as well as visibility over all work in progress -- including the ability to bulk revoke and revert student editing rights around submission deadlines, as well the ability to fetch word, revision, and comment counts on all student files.

Created by veteran science teacher and school administrator Andrew Stillman, Doctopus is built with teacher workflow in mind -- taming complexity and unlocking the power of Google Apps for differentiation and collaborative projects.

Doctopus increases student collaboration and enables a powerful shift in teacher workflow --  scaling teachers' ability to manage and assess writing tasks and projects that motivate rich, authentic student production and collaboration (e.g. the development of core career, college, and 21st-century skills).

The Goobric Chrome extension works alongside Doctopus to enable rubric-based grading of Google Docs right in a browser popup window using the rubric of your design.  Once a rubric score is submitted, Goobric auto-records scores in your spreadsheet and automatically provides students instant rubric scores and comments via email.  Heck, if it's a Google Document, Goobric even pastes the filled out rubric into the bottom of the Doc.


CORE FEATURES OF DOCTOPUS

- Creates a standardized folder structure for your classes --OR-- imports your existing folder structure from gClassfolders or Hapara Teacher Dashboard.

- Manage a single assignment for your class from one spreadsheet.

- Use your class roster to create and manage pre-shared student copies of a master Doc of any type (document, presentation, spreadsheet, PDF, etc.), or a folder of Documents in four handy sharing configurations:

  -- individual - all the same: Creates the same separate, individual Doc for each student in your class.

  -- individual - differentiated: Creates one copy of a Doc for each student based on their level.

  -- project groups: Creates one shared copy of a Doc for each student project group.

  -- Whole class: Creates a SINGLE shared copy of a Doc for your whole class.

- Automatically grant view-only or comment-only privileges to the rest of the class to facilitate peer review protocols.

- Pre-organize assignments into a folder of your choosing for easy grading, and also deliver assignments to student-level folders.

- Copy and distribute whole folders full of Documents to students (with subfolders and files up to one level down)

- Standardize file naming and organize links in your spreadsheet to improve your workflow when grading.

- Omit individual students from an assignment by flagging them: "Exclude".

- Monitor the time of last edit to help you intervene when students are off track.

- Gain insight into teacher feedback and peer-collaboration.  Fetch numeric statistics on the number of revisions by student, comments by teacher, student, and peers, as well as number of peer files and comments on peers by each student.

- Easily remove and restore student editing rights during grading and revision cycles. Great for timed essays!

- Send optional notification emails upon sharing Docs with students.

- Easily send grades and feedback via email.

- Install the Goobric chrome extension and attach a rubrics to the Doctopus assignment spreadsheet to enable a rubric-based grading widget right in the browser.

- The Goobric extension automatically passes rubric scores back to Doctopus and (optionally) emails completed rubric to student editor(s).

- Now offers Google Classroom users the ability to import assignments and grade them with the Goobric extension.


A NOTE ABOUT STUDENT DATA PRIVACY

Have questions about how Doctopus handles student data? Please see the Doc linked below:
https://docs.google.com/a/newvisions.org/document/d/11J_mLOEPG5Zf-ZLyw-GylIRjPnHkhYQAqguE0fGxSsc/edit

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Make your reading groups digital!!

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Not have enough time for grading?

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If so, then Flubaroo can help!

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Saves teachers an average of 3.7 hours per week!

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Use add-ons & Apps Script - Computer - Docs editors Help

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Install and use add-ons (English only) You can use add-ons to do more with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. Visit the

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Cool Cat Teacher - 15 Best Google Add-Ons for Teachers

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Cool Cat Teacher - 15 Best Google Add-Ons for Teachers

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Google Drive has enabled Google Add Ons and there are some that you and your students will want to enable right away. Others may appeal more to professional developers or those who work remotely .

I have updated this post and also held a free webinar talking about my favorite Google Drive Add Ons. I've updated this post originally written in 2014 to reflect current information. This remains one of my most popular posts to date, so I want it to be current and to remove links that no longer work. At the bottom, I include a list of all Add-Ons removed from this post and why.

Want a video tutorial? Texthelp has agreed to send you a link to the video of the webinar I did on my new 15 best add ons. You can get it free if you fill out this Google form.

Here's a tutorial on enabling add ons. For purposes of this article, add ons, extensions, and other tools are beginning to overlap, so I've included some of each in this post. Lots of people still call all of these add ons. Technically, the add ons are within Google Drive or G suite now. Many of these tools have several options: add ons, extensions, and more. All of them add features to Gsuite tools, so I've included my top 15 here for you! Enjoy!

Add-On #1: Extensity

The biggest issue that teachers and students often have is having too many extensions and add ons enabled. Sometimes they will conflict with each other. For this reason, the first thing everyone should install in their web browser is Extensity. [ Read more]

Ok, it isn't really an add on, but it can be accessed through an add on. First, make sure you know how to use Google Voice Typing in Google Docs. You have to use Google Chrome. Learn how to use it.

Then, if you want to use Google Voice typing everywhere, all you need is the Read Write Toolbar for teachers (see below.) After you install it, you'll click the "speech input" button. Now, I say for teachers because Teachers get it free. (When you download it, you have a full 30-day free Premium. In that 30 days, click the ? and then click the I'm a teacher button. Now, they'll confirm you ARE a teacher - don't clog up the works if you're not. Then, you'll have all this.)

This handy toolbar will make Google voice typing available throughout the web. Very cool.

On the original 2014 post, this tool was called "Text Help for Study Skills" and I recommended it. Now it is Read&Write for Google Chrome and it can do so much more. This tool is a must use for younger kids and English Language Learners (ELL's) Here are some of the features:

You can highlight words on a web page and then pull those highlights into a new document. You can also take the words and put them into a vocabulary list.

Hover Speech reads the speech for you.*

Dictionary looks up the word and you can also get a visual dictionary picture.

Translate will convert the words into the language of your choice.*

Speech maker will create an audio file that you download.

Screenshot reader will read text to you from a picture.

Screenmask gives you a reading strip that you can move along the page as you read. Dyslexics will want to use this feature.

Simplify works like the Evernote clearly tool used to. It takes all the ads and other items off so you just have the text to read. You'll want this if you take kids to some websites that have inappropriate articles listed.

Practice reading aloud - can read aloud and be sent to the teacher. However, if you really want kids to read to you, I recommend trying Fluency Tutor instead as it will go longer than 1 minute.*

Voice Notes lets teachers leave notes of up to 1 minute inside Google Docs for kids. If you are teaching writing, you should be leaving voice notes.

Predictive typing helps beginning writers have better writing skills as it coaches them as they type. Fantastic tool. (Part of premium, though.)

Not all of these features (and there are more) are free. I've put a star by those that are. This is one of those must-use for kids learning to read. All teachers should install and activate the free version.

Grammarly is a fantastic tool. You'll use it throughout the web. It will spell check and also has a fantastic plagiarism check that I use on student papers. However, it doesn't work inside Google Docs, so there, I recommend Pro Writing Aid instead. These two tools are an essential part of my workflow. I've shared the tutorial covering them. [ Read more]

To get Grammarly free, make sure you're using the Chrome web browser. Then, go here. Don't sign up on any other browser except Chrome or it will NOT BE FREE. I do pay for the premium version because I get all kinds of features.

Pro Writing Aid has a Google Doc Add in, a web tool, and one for Microsoft Word. For serious writers, it is a must-use.

Pro Writing Aid is a robust tool with more features than any grammar guru could use. But it coaches you ot make you a better writer! The two features you must use are:

Sticky sentences check. These types of sentences slow down your reader and cause them to stop reading. They inlude the most commonly used words in the English language. I ask my students to remove all sticky sentences from their writing.

Transition words. While Google prefers 30% transition words in online writing, I set a minimum of at least 25% transition words.This is another thing hard to coach as a teacher. Because it is so hard to count and monitor just how many words begin with transitions, letting the computer do it for you is a great idea.

Fluency Tutor is a handy tool can transform read alouds. Everything is free in this except the detailed scoring and data collection and comprehension questions.

So, you can assign reading to kids and they can read it to you. You can also have all kinds of feedback, etc. This is a must-install for elementary schools with Chromebooks.

This app is AWESOME for giving feedback to students. I've been recommending this since 2014 and still do. Think about it. When you give students feeback on writing - it should be in a way they understand best. If they are a strong reader, they may be a strong writer - however, weak readers are often weak writers. It makes sense to give students feedback in a way they understand. I love Kaizana for this reason.

You can insert citations directly into Google Documents directly within the Document using EasyBib. MLA, APA and Chicago Style are available. The EasyBib Add On for Google Drive is one of the first you should enable if you are a writing teacher. Since I first recommended this tool in 2014, they've added new features like the credibility guide and the ability to search sources directly within EasyBib.

(G)math gives you the ability to create:

Additionally, you can even hand write formulas and (G)math reads your handwriting and converts it to a new chart or formula. Awesome!

If you want help with this handy tool, the Gmath help forum rocks!

Geogebra has many teacher created tools that you can use and assign to your students in Google Classroom. For example, you can see in the gif I embedded below a simple game to teach exponents. I played level 1 in the gif.

To use Geogebra with google Drive, make sure you have a Google Drive (or GSuite) account. Then, go to
http://login.geogebra.org/user/create and just click "sign up with a Google Account.

If you use Graphic organizers in the classroom, Lucid Charts is a must add for you! It has so many templates that you can use and add to Google Drive. Awesome!

Now this is more an extension than an add on, but for teachers who grade a lot of online work like I do. GET IT. You can quickly open up multiple links into tabs in the browser. I've found that it greatly reduces my grading time. I also teach students to use this tool for Google search results so they can quickly open the results and go through them.

Now, I use PowerSchool Learning LMS and my rubrics are built in. But for a while, this was an awesome tool and I know people still using Goobric with their Google Classrooms and Doctopus Add-On for Google Sheets.

This tool lets you remotely share a computer over the web. So, you can access your other computers. Even better, your students can share their screens and you can see them for troubleshooting or other purposes (like putting their screen up on your projector.)

This tutorial is the best one I've found for setting up Chrome Remote Desktop.

This handy tool lets you immediately share a link to everyone in your Google Classroom, helping you get everyone on the same page in a moment. It lets you push links to classrooms set up in your Google Classroom and you're immediately on the same page.

What was on the list in 2014?

Lots of the items above were on the original list, but here are some I didn't include in the update but some of you may still find useful. I've also included a screenshot of the original graphic at the bottom.

Tools that Still Exist but Didn't Make the Cut This Time

Mindmeister - lets you turn a bulleted list into a quick mindmap from inside Google Docs. This is a cool tool but I'm using Lucid Charts for most graphic organizers now.

Workflows - This lets you automate gathering signatures and approvals. I no longer recommend this because there are tools like HelloSign that let people sign off on contracts, etc.

Uberconference Calls - When I included this in 2014 - no one had ever heard of Uber, the car service. However, this lets you make phone calls inside of Google Docs. I use as a variety of tools as do many of you for voice calling. They are so good that I no longer recommend this tool - it just isn't necessary or is replaced but what we already have.

Gliffy Diagrams lets you make charts and more. I use Lucid Charts instead.

Twitter Curator let you pull tweets into Google Docs. Storify does the job much better, in my opinion. If you need a storify-like tool for Google Docs, then this is your tool.

Open Clip Art - While this lets you find clip art, I no longer recommend it for children because they have not done a good job of filtering pictures for appropriateness. Adults may find it helpful if they're not in a location where innappropriate images will get them in hot water.

No longer available or not needed:

Some of the best add ons had features that were so useful that Google Docs added them to their feature set. For reference, here are the names and functions of the add-ons that don't exist any more or just aren't necessary.

Track Changes - you could track and edit changes for each other. This is now built into Google Drive with the edit, suggest, and read only features.

Table of Contents - This is a built in feature in Google Docs. Just add headings. Then, go to Insert -> Table of Contents. You can also bring it up in the sidebar and use for navigation. Sure, this add on still exists, but why would you use it?

Thesaurus - When explore and define were added to Google docs, many tools like Thesaurus became unnecessary. It has one star now and doesn't work well so I'm not linking to it. Just click a word and right click and say "define" right inside Google Docs.

Template Gallery - These are also now built into Google Drive and will be taken down soon, however, they are replacing them with GSuite Custom templates. I'm not really sure about all of the differences, but you can set up templates in GSuite.

Consistency Checker - This was replaced by Pro Writing Aid for me and is no longer necessary.

Document Merge - This let you do a mail merge inside Google Docs. It doesn't exist, but was rather clunky and the Microsoft Word merge is better in my opinion.

Other Notable Add-Ons for Some Teachers

While there are other add-ons including those that can let you send a fax from within Google Drive and others that let you sign contracts and documents, these are my favorites for educators. Let me know your favorites in the comments. To see the whole store, just open a document or spreadsheet and go to Add-Ons >> Get Add-Ons

This post is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Coolcatteacher makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website. The open clip art should be for college and adult students only. Vicki Davis will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this post.

What my recommendations look like now

The 2014 Version of this Chart

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