This past Monday, we featured five Chrome Extensions for teachers to try. Today we are highlighting one extension in particular and that is the Share to Classroom Chrome Extension. Because so many Burlington teachers are using Classroom for their digital workflow, we wanted to single out this extension because it makes sharing announcements, assignments, and…
A large number of Burlington Public School teachers are using Google Classroom in conjunction with Notability for their digital workflow. Recently, many students have been experiencing difficulty opening PDF’s in Notability when using the Classroom iOS app. Some students are receiving messages to switch accounts while others are being taken to the home screen of…
Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to introduce Nick Whitney’s first post and screencast on the Help Desk blog. In his first screencast, Nick demonstrates three different Add-Ons for Google Docs. I’m super proud of the time and effort Nick put into this assignment. The final result clearly demonstrates his commitment to producing a high quality and…
Yesterday, Google announced two new features in Docs that many students and teachers will be happy about. 1. Docs users now have the ability to customize how headers and footers appear on the first page of their documents. Students can now easily follow the academic formatting guidelines required by their teachers; whether it be MLA,…
Note: Currently, the Classroom iOS app is a bit tricky to find in the App Store, but my tech savvy students found it! Here’s how they did it: students launched the Google search app (in the App Store) then clicked on “related.” From there, they scrolled to the end of the second row of Google…
Inserting a table of contents into a Google doc is not only easy; it’s an excellent way to quickly navigate to a specific section of a lengthy document. There are many use cases for a table of contents and one example that’s applicable to many high school teachers would be adding a table of contents…
Google calendars is a powerful tool to use for communication with an entire school community. Individual classroom teachers can also benefit from using a public Google calendar to communicate important dates and events with students and parents. If you use WordPress as your blogging platform and wish to embed your Google Calendar into your site,…
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