I was greeted with a small window on my Google Classroom during the school week that informed me of several updates available in Google Classroom. After spending some time with it, these are the four most important updates to Google Classroom. 1. Drag and Drop You can now drag and drop anything in the “Classwork”…
One of our front office people at my school will be retiring in a few weeks and she wants to give the new person taking her spot all of the bookmarks that she has saved and organized over the past two decades of working at the school. She has the bookmarks finely tuned in a…
Did you know that Google Sheets allows you to rotate text to better format your spreadsheets for viewing or print? It’s an option that I occasionally find myself using, especially when trying to save horizontal space. There are two ways to rotate text inside of Google Sheets Format Menu Simply go to the Format menu and…
There are a lot of times when I want to share a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slides presentation with other teachers, staff, or other people but I want to retain ownership and editing rights over the original. I’m not really a big fan of giving people access to my Google files and allowing them to…
I’m a huge fan of Google and what they provide in the education field. I often use Google Forms to give tests/quizzes for my students but grading them has always been a little tricky. In the past, I have used addons like Flubaroo, which I still use from time to time, but is often slower…
Google recently announced a few changes to Google Classroom. Some of them are meant for admin-level people, but the thing I’m most excited about is an update for me, the teacher, and for our students. As you can tell from the title, this update allows the teacher to assign items to individual students. I posted…
I’m a massive fan of what Google has been doing in the education field. My students and I use their products every day. I teach others how to use Google Classroom and other G Suite Apps and I often find myself being asked questions about Google products during my school day. After talking to a few…
Something that I have found myself needing to do from time to time is to link a slide in a Google Slide presentation to another slide. During our Back to School Night I wanted to make a single presentation, since most of the info is the same, but be able to switch from class to…
Google has made some really nice updates to Google Classroom over the past few months. They are getting closer and closer to an ideal LMS. I’ve outlined some of my past grievances with Google Classroom, and it sounds like they are listening to feedback. Many of the issues I raised are still there, but the…
I’m a huge fan of Google Classroom. It has saved me invaluable time, allowed me to make my classes more dynamic, and greatly helped me cut down on paper (and lost assignments). With all of that said, I believe there are a number of things that need to be added or enhanced in Google Classroom…
