Thanks to Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets, as well as two powerful Add-Ons in Forms, teachers can now schedule parent/teacher conferences in minutes. Not only does using Google Apps save you paper, it is much more organized and efficient. The video tutorial embedded below walks you through the process, start to finish. If you prefer…
Staying true to their promise to listen to teacher feedback, Google recently announced several updates to Google Classroom. These updates include: Groups integration If you use Google Groups, you now have the ability to pre-populate your students in Classroom using your existing Google Groups. This makes adding students to your Classes even faster (as if…
Today, Burlington Public Schools hosted a team of eleven engineers from the Google office in Cambridge. Engineers arrived around 8:00 a.m. and visited approximately eighteen classrooms throughout the district. The purpose of their visit was to observe our teachers’ instructional strategies and learn more about how Google products and services can be used to enhance…
Grading student work can be extremely time consuming. However, with the use of the Flubaroo add-on in Google Sheets, grading student tests, quizzes, or formative assessments can be completed in record time, and the best part of Flubaroo is that it is very simple to learn. To use this powerful script, you first want to…
Google recently released an update to Forms which included a whole new set of themes as well as the ability to create a fully customized form. Now you can easily customize every area of your form including the header image, title, questions, page background and more. To take advantage of Forms customization, you simply select…
When I heard the news late yesterday that the ability to CREATE a Google Slide presentation was finally released for the iPad and iPhone I was ecstatic. I, along with many other educational technology integrators, had been waiting for this capability for months, especially those of us working in 1:1 iPad schools that are also…
Have a question about Google Apps? Of course you can Google your question and search for the answer, however Google’s education training center provides in-depth reference guides covering all of their apps. Below, are links to detailed walkthroughs of Drive and Docs, Gmail, Calendar, and Sites. Each guide contains step by step directions and screenshots,…
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