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10 Teacher Hacks for Google Apps
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Educational technology tips for teachers, librarians and schools.
The ability to collaborate and access documents in the cloud with Google Apps has transformed what I can do with my students. And, as a Google Certified Teacher, I utilize these tools in my classroom on a daily basis.
I’ve learned the intricacies of these apps and discovered a variety of teacher hacks that make them even more effective for teaching. Try these 10 hacks from my blog to be more efficient with your favorite Google Apps.
Use Google Draw to create manipulatives that students can collaborate on and use to represent their understanding of concepts. Learn more.
Create badges for students in Google Draw and publish them to the web. Link to these images in a spreadsheet to keep them all organized.
Place text and images side by side with ease by creating tables in a Google Doc with a border width of zero.
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View multiple sources of data in one Google Sheet spreadsheet by using a simple formula. Get a tutorial for creating the formula here.
Replace the /edit at the end of a Google Doc URL with /copy to provide templates to students.
Use a Google Hangout permalink in the “about” tab of Google Classroom to meet with students virtually.
When using Google Forms for formative assessment, fill out the form before the students using “answer” for the first name field and “key” for the last name field.
Pre-populate Google Forms with student data by using a concatenate formula in Google Sheet. Get the how-to tutorial here.
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Ask students to use a nonsense word in the title of their Google Doc to easily search for the documents in Google Drive.
Make a comment in Google Docs and notify someone in one step by adding a plus sign and their email to the comment.
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