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8 Tips for an Organized Google Drive – Imagine Easy Solutions

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New: Enhance Your Google Drive with These Wonderful Add-ons ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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March 12, 2014
Google has finally integrated third party add-ons to its Google Docs and Spreadsheet making it impossible for users to install a wide variety of add-ons on their documents and sheets and access them across different devices.

Add-ons are tools created by developer partners of Google that give you more features to do many things with your documents and spreadsheets.To start adding add-ons for Docs and Sheets, you need to select "Get add-ons" in the Add-ons menu of any open document or spreadsheet.

Once the add-on is installed, it will become available across all of your documents r spreadsheets and you can start using it right away.
Watch this video to learn more about how to add add-ons to your docs and sheets

Here are some interesting add-ons you can add to your Google Docs :
1- EasyBib Bibliography Creator

The Bibliography Creator by EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper. Automatically cite books, journal articles, and websites just by entering in the titles or URLs. Format citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago style. When you're finished creating your bibliography, click Generate Bibliography and we'll alphabetize your citations and add them to the end of your paper.
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Kaizena makes it easy for teachers to give high quality feedback on student work - simply highlight and speak to give verbal feedback, or attach reusable resources for common problems. This Doc Add-on allows you to quickly open the Google Doc you're currently viewing in Kaizena, which is very useful if you're using workflow tools that link directly to a Google Doc such as doctopus.

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March 12, 2014 Google has finally integrated third party add-ons to its Google Docs and Spreadsheet making it impossible for users to install a wide variety of add-ons on their documents and sheets and access them across different devices.

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3 Must Have Google Drive Tools to Improve Students Writing ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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March , 2014
As you probably know, Google Drive has recently announced the addition of add-ons to its features. These are third party extensions that you can install on your Drive to enhance its performance.I have been trying out some of these add-ons and decided to feature three of them here. The add-ons I selected are ideal for helping students improve their writing. For more add-ons please refer to this list.

ProWriting Aid is a great tool that provides a variety of features to help students improve their writing. some of these features include:

Check your writing for consistency, plagiarism, acronyms, cliches, redundancies, grammar mistakes and more.

Check for consistency of spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization; - Eliminate clichés and redundancies;

Check for plagiarism and unoriginal content;

Online grammar and spelling checker;

Improve readability;

Find overused words;

Improve dull paragraph structure;

Find repeated words and phrases;

Eliminate vague, abstract, and complex words from your writing;

High quality copy-editing and proofreading services;

Track Changes is a great tool for collaborative writing. It allows users to see changes and editing that have been down to the paper and when and who did them and whether to accept or reject these modifications.

Features Track Changes provides to users include:

Manage Changes: Accept or reject changes easily by using the Track Changes sidebar

Easy to Review: Changes are color coded for easy review: additions are in green and deletions are in red with strikethrough.

Simple Controls: Turn Track Changes on or off and reset tracking with a single click using the Add-ons menu.

Secure and Private: No part of your document is ever transmitted or stored outside of Google's servers.

Watch this video to see it in action

If you are working on a document on Google Docs and want to insert citations, EasyBib is the best add-an to use. It lets you easily look for and access citations and also generates a bibliography for your paper. You can choose from the three different citation formats: APA, MLA, or Chicago.

Watch this short video to learn more about how to use EasyBib on your Google docs.

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3 Must Have Google Drive Tools to Improve Students Writing

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March , 2014 As you probably know, Google Drive has recently announced the addition of add-ons to its features. These are third party extensions that you can install on your Drive to enhance its performance.I have been trying out some of these add-ons and decided to feature three of them here.

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Tips You Need To Know When Sharing Google Drive Docs with Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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June 6, 2014
The sharing functionally that Google Drive offers to its users is really an amazing feature.It is ideal for sharing files and documents with students. What is even better is the fact that you can control who sees and edits your files with visibility options and access levels. In today's post, I am going to show you how to use these two features to share documents, files, and folders with your students.

Using the visibility option and access levels you will be able to :

See who has access to your documents

Add collaborators ( editors, commenters, or viewers) by name or mailing list

Transfer ownership of your file to someone else

1- Visibility Option
This feature allows you to control who can access your files and folders. By default, Google Drive assigns private visibility to anything you create on it. To change the visibility settings of any documents you have on your Drive :
Go to your Drive
Check the box next to the file or folder you'd like to share.
Click the Share icon. A pop-up window will show up. Click on "change"

Choose a visibility option: "Public on the web", " Anyone with the link", and "Specific people".

When you set a file to " Anyone with the link", only those who have the exact URL of the file will be able to see it without even being signed in to their Drive.

Select this sharing option if you want your file or document to be publicly accessible in the web.
Public documents and files can show up in search results, and anyone who finds the web address of the document can access it.

There are three levels of access to use when sharing a document, file or folder on your Drive.

This restricts what collaborators can do with your document to only viewing it. Viewers can :

View files and folders

Download or sync something to another device

Make a copy of something to save in Google Drive

Viewers can't permanently delete a file or folder, nor can they change something's sharing settings.

This allows collaborators to edit and change the content of the document. Editors can :

Edit Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings

Invite or remove other collaborators, if the owner has given editors this permission

Download or sync something to another device

View the list of other collaborators

Make a copy of something to save in Google Drive

Upload and delete file versions (synced or uploaded files only)

Add and remove items from a folder

Editors can't permanently delete a file or folder.

This allows collaborators to add comments to documents, spreadsheets, or presentations. Commenters can :

Comment on Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

View documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

Download or sync the document, spreadsheet, or presentation to another device

Make a copy of a document, spreadsheet, or presentation to save in Google Drive

Commenters can't permanently delete a file or folder, nor can they change something's sharing settings.

Here is how to customize the access levels settings of your documents.

Head over to your Drive

Check the box in front of the document, file or folder you want to share

Click on the share iconChoose a visibility option: "Private," "Anyone with the link" or "Public on the web."

Type the email addresses of the people you want to share with in the text box below "Add people." You can add a single person or a mailing list.Choose the access level from the drop-down menu next to each collaborator: "Can view," "Can comment," or "Can edit."

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Tips You Need To Know When Sharing Google Drive Docs with Students

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June 6, 2014 The sharing functionally that Google Drive offers to its users is really an amazing feature.It is ideal for sharing files and documents with students. What is even better is the fact that you can control who sees and edits your files with visibility options and access levels.

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A Great New Google Drive Cheat Sheet for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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July 28, 2014
Here is a new excellent Google Drive cheat sheet created and shared by Shake Up Learning (one of my favourite blogs for Ed Tech). This cheat sheet is created after the latest updates to Google Drive and as such it is the most recent visual guide to the new Google Drive. The main things covered in this cheat sheet are :

Create, upload, and organize

Files, folders, and search

Details, activities and settings

Google+ Integration.

This cheat sheet is available for free download from this link. You can also make a copy of it to your Google Drive from this Link.

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38 Ideas to Use Google Drive in Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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August 1, 2014
Google has recently released some important updates to its Google Drive. I have already covered each of these updates in separate posts but for those of you who haven't seen them yet, the list below aggregates all of these updates in one single place.

Google Docs

This new feature is great for collaborative work on Google Docs. Before, when you share a Google document with your collaborators and grant them the editing rights they can edit anything in it. But with "Suggested Edits" you, as the owner of the document, can control this editing process by allowing collaborators to make only suggestions which you can either accept or reject. This new feature is not available on Google Docs for mobile. Here is the tutorial

2- Edit Office Files in Google Drive

Sometimes people send you files and you need to be able to open them, make some edits, and send them back. If they don't use Docs, Sheets and Slides it can be a challenge. With the latest update from Google Drive, this is no longer an issue because both the web and mobile apps for Docs, Sheets, and Slides let you edit Office files-without conversion-so you can now edit and send back files in their original format.
Google Slides
1- Widescreen Format

Google now allows a widescreen view of presentations. Now when you try to make a new presentation you will have a widescreen where you can get a ton of new space to fill with words, charts, tables or even a simple, beautiful image. You can also change the size of your slides using the pull down menu in the theme chooser, or by visiting Page setup in the File menu. Widescreen presentation are a good fit for TV or monitor.
2- Editable Master Slide

This functionality allows users to change customize the theme of their presentations as they like. can now easily tailor how content appears on every slide by selecting "Edit master" from the Slide menu. For example, you can set all of your header fonts to Alconica, make all of your first level bullets bold, and add a logo in the bottom right corner.
3- Edit, Crop, and Add Borders to Images in Slides

With this new feature, users can now customize and edit images they use in their Slides . Before this update, users were limited as to what they can do with images they upload to their slides,now Google makes it easier for anyone to crop, edit, apply shape masks, and add borders to their images from within the presentation.
4- Slide App is now available

Like Docs and Sheets, Google Slide has now a mobile app for both iOS and Android. Using this app, you will be able to create and edit slides on the go, even if you are offline.
Google Apps

Google Apps administrators are now able to recover files that have been deleted by users provided there is a specified date range during which this deletion took place. Here is what Google said about it :

Admins can now restore a given user's deleted Google Drive files for a specified date range. This helps ensure that, if a user accidentally deletes important files, those files are not permanently lost. The feature pertains to files that have been emptied from the Trash only. Files still in the Trash can be easily recovered by the user.

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As I have mentioned before, we have come a long way with using Google Apps on the iPad! There have been a lot of updates to the Google Drive app over the last year, and you may have missed some handy features. Below are a few tricks to help you make the most of using Google Drive on the iPad. This article will show you how to manage multiple accounts, passcode protect Google Drive, and how to upload from other Google Drive accounts, camera roll, iCloud, Dropbox and more!

Manage Multiple Accounts

Do you have more than one Google account? I have several, and it's nice that I can log in to multiple accounts through the Google Drive for iOS app. Here's how:

1. From the Google Drive App, tap on the menu button (top left).

2. Tap your account name.

3. From here, select, "Add another account," and login to your other Google account. Once you have added each of your accounts, you can follow the steps above to toggle between your accounts.

This feature can also make shared iPads a bit easier. Add this feature with the tip below and help keep students from accidentally logging into the wrong account.

Passcode Protect Google Drive Accounts

Protect your Google Drive files with a passcode. You can passcode protect each Google Drive account with a different code. When you passcode protect your account, you will be prompted for the passcode each time you open the Google Drive apps. If you have a newer iPad/iPhone with Touch ID, you can also login with Touch ID.

Here's how to set a Passcode Lock for each Google Account:

Go to Settings (top left corner)

Next, tap Passcode Lock > Enable Passcode Lock to "On".

You will then be prompted to set the passcode (and re-enter to confirm). After confirmed, you can choose to have the passcode "Always Lock," and it will require that you enter the passcode each time you return to Google Drive.

Shared iPad Tip: (Thank you to the fabulous +Jody Green for sharing this tip!) We all know that shared iPads present a lot of challenges, and logging in and out of Google Accounts can take a lot of extra time. Jody has students store their individual accounts in their assigned iPads with a passcode lock. This way students can only access their own accounts, and keep students from accidentally logging in with the wrong account.

Upload Files to Google Drive from Camera Roll, iCloud, Dropbox and More!

There are now many ways to upload files to Google Drive, including connections to third party storage apps. Below are three options for uploading to Google Drive in the iOS app.

Upload files or videos from the Camera Roll: Access photos, videos and screenshots that you have saved to your Google Drive. This method is a great way to move files created with other apps into Drive (i.e. iMovie).

Use Camera: Use the camera directly from the Google Drive app to directly upload photos and videos to Google Drive. This function will still save to your camera roll as well, but with photos and videos safely stored in Drive, you can delete from your iOS device to save precious storage! (Note: Always verify that the photos and videos are saved in Drive before deleting from the camera roll.)

Upload files: From here you will see various options depending on the other apps you have installed. Upload files from iCloud, another Google Drive account, Dropbox and more! (To enable, click on + > Upload Files > More.)

What are your favorite tips for using Google Drive on the iPad? Please share in the comments below.
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