Smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. Ability to customize thousands of fonts, links, images, drawings, and tables. By using Google Docs, a teacher can see the entire writing process so that feedback can be more meaningful. To access and review the revisions in a Google Doc click the File menu, then select See revision history. The revision history will color code the revisions made by each student to view contributions made by several students in one collaborative Google Doc. Revision history an important feature to utilize during group activities to keep students accountable, to allow the teacher to assess the work of each student individually, and to help students track their progress. Google Translate works in Google Docs. Using Google Docs and Google Drive for collaborative learning gives teachers the tools to Facilitate collaboration, and Monitor progress, Check for understanding and provide feedback to students. When sharing a Google document, you can enable others to edit, view, and comment. Google Docs allows for one version of a document, meaning you never have to compile different revisions from group members. You can easily share documents using a URL instead of attaching a document to an email. If you have a file saved on your desktop, upload the document from your desktop to Google Drive and use the built-in feature to automatically convert it to a Google Doc.
Real-time editing and commenting on collaborative features of Google Docs help facilitate group work. Setting clear expectations, Aligning to the learning goals, Ensuring everyone the opportunity to participate, and Choosing the best digital tool for the job can help improve the success of a collaborative learning experience? Revision history. synchronous discussion?
Google Docs has add-ons for accent marks and speak to text – while the speech to text isn’t very accurate (“hey Siri” still messes up some things I say in English) it’s a starting point and one way to practice pronunciation – click here for a handout
As far as freezing the screen – that doesn’t mean students are engaged in the lesson. When I have students working on their computers I usually stand in the back of the room and I’ll have students move in a way where I can see their screens – if one of them needs my help they come to me.
You can record audio and turn it in through Google Classroom – that will go to the teacher’s drive.
chromebooks have cameras? If so have them try clip grid.
Google Docs has add-ons for accent marks and speak to text – while the speech to text isn’t very accurate (“hey Siri” still messes up some things I say in English) it’s a starting point and one way to practice pronunciation – click here for a handout
As far as freezing the screen – that doesn’t mean students are engaged in the lesson. When I have students working on their computers I usually stand in the back of the room and I’ll have students move in a way where I can see their screens – if one of them needs my help they come to me.
You can record audio and turn it in through Google Classroom – that will go to the teacher’s drive. Piloting one of our middle schools to have students keep their devices over the summer break. We do this for grades 7-9. Students are encouraged to “unplug” for the summer and we send home info to parents via email to emphasize unplugging, safe internet use, and monitoring of their child when on a device. The advent of Team Drives has opened more doors. While we haven’t enforced it yet, we will be doing the following next year.
All accounts that belong to students that are no longer enrolled and staff who are no longer employed will be deleted 90 days after they leave.
Teams are strongly encouraged to use Team Drives to store any Shared or Common Files. (That is the purpose of them.)
We also require that all school business be conducted using official school accounts. While we allow sharing outside the domain, utilizing non-managed accounts to circumvent policies will not be tolerated and could result in the loss of use of resources.
Here’s a video showing how I would count the form responses and then embed a counter into a Google Site.
Can do that very easily. You sync the Google Sheet from the Form, then create a Score Card with the sum for that field. You can adjust the size of the report and then embed it on the site.
It is as Matt suggested, I added a column to the form response sheet, in the top row added Forms Filled, and in the next row, =COUNTA(A2: A) then charted the data and inserted it into the site. Now if you submit a form (refresh the site) you will see the new number of forms submitted.
The chart can be put on a slide or a doc as well. Oh, and one caveat to display a chart on the website, the sheet with the form responses needs to be shared anyone with the link can view. I don’t think this is a security problem because you are not really sharing the link with anyone to be able to view the actual sheet. I have tried to open the chart and from there open the sheet and I can’t craft the URL to do that with the chart URL, hence I do not see a security risk to share the sheet so that you can share the chart, and yet the shared chart can’t lead you to the shared sheet.
You can transfer YouTube channels, but it is not always easy because YouTube is not a Core G Suite for Education product. This means there are different TOS. The past few times I have done Google Expeditions that app has crashed randomly during the expedition. The iPad is updated, the app is updated, and the iPods are updated to the most recent update. Has anyone else experienced this or have a fix?
We still tell our kids to use Takeout.
Instead, we use ‘Drive Migrator’.
Simply tell your staff to put all their files in a folder entitled ‘Name of School Year-Year’ and share it with their personal Google domain. In their personal domain, search for ‘Google Drive Migrator’ (link below) and install that on their personal account. (Interestingly, drive migrator is not listed in the chrome web store if you search for it there, but it shows it as a Chrome Web app when you search in the Omnibox.
Simply tell your staff to put all their files in a folder entitled ‘Name of School Year-Year’ and share it with their personal Google domain. In their personal domain, search for ‘Google Drive Migrator’ (link below) and install that on their personal account. (Interestingly, drive migrator is not listed in the chrome web store if you search for it there, but it shows it as a Chrome Web app when you search in the Omnibox.
We’ve had similar issues with Takeout/Transfer. Here is the document we give to staff. Basically, nothing is ideal!
Part 1 – how to transfer Gmail and Google Drive data from a G Suite for Education account (i.e. a school account) to another Google account (personal or G Suite).
Part 2 – how to transfer Google Drive data from a consumer Google account (i.e. your own personal Gmail account) to another Google account (personal or G Suite).
Part 3 – how to transfer Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google+ and YouTube data between any two Google accounts.
