Level Up Teaching and Learning with Google Workspace

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Google Workspace has many free incredible apps and tools that work on any device to simplify your life as a teacher. You can accomplish so many time consuming tasks, such as grading, assessment, providing feedback, research, creating spreadsheets, and more! Below is a slide presentation of some of my favorite tips, tools, and resources.  Click here for the Wakelet full of lesson templates!
Google Tools SK12 Shelly by Kelly Duncan

Tips

  • ​To get the most out of Google Workspace, learn to use add-ons for each product. You can empower spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and more by using free add-ons. 
  • Set up a contact number for family communication!
    • App and website
    • Receive messages and voicemail anytime
    • Make phone calls
    • Duplicate messages quickly
    • Search messages
  • Find Google Workspace tools, apps,  and extensions listed on the Google Drive menu or on the waffle at the corner of Gmail. 
  • Set up a class email!
    • Grade level team communication
    • Record of family communication
    • Forward to your other email accounts
    • Rotate schedule of checking
  • Cool Tip- with a gmail account when you add a +1 (or any number) to your email name before the @ sign and it acts like a different email but still goes to the original email address. This is helpful for creating multiple accounts on various apps or using your email to sign students up for apps and tools. I learned this from @Mgraffin.
  • Accessibility Features- 
  • Download the separate mobile apps for gmail, docs, spreadsheets, photos, drive, search, slides, and more. 
  • To allow offline editing on your mobile device or tablet you have to turn on offline editing for each document, spreadsheet, or creation. If you have a Chromebook, it begins offloading these files for you.
  • Help students to search Google like a pro with this poster! 
  • Remember to update notification settings and help students update theirs for each app, especially Google Classroom!
  • I recommend getting the Extensify extension which helps you manage all your extensions. Too many extensions on Chrome slows it down so Extensify helps with this!
  • ​Cool trick- if you upload a Google photo of text to Google Drive, locate the file, then right click on the file and choose to open with Google Docs. This will turn that image into text.
  • Google Doc Top Tips
    • ​💡 Voice Typing Tool
      💡 Explore Tool 
      💡 Drop Down Menu feature
      💡 Smart Chips Menu feature
      💡 Citations feature
      💡 Add-ons feature
      💡 Sharing settings
      💡 Hyper Docs
  • Top Slides Tips
    • 💡 Use templates
      💡 Extensions tab = Add-ons and Scripts
      💡 Explore the File tab (Publish, PDF)
      💡 KISS = Keep It Short and Simple
      💡 Assign digital projects
      💡 Sharing settings
  • Top Sheet Tips
    • 💡 Student Rosters and Data
      💡 Splice Tool
      💡 Extensions tab = Add-ons & Scripts
      💡 Explore the Insert tab (Images, Smart Chips, Checkbox, Drop Down Menu)
      💡 Glideapps.com to create an app!
  • Use Google Forms for:
    • 💡 Quizzes
      💡 Surveys
      💡 Escape Rooms
      💡 Interviews
      💡 Data Collection
      💡 Microcredential Form
      💡 Sign-in Forms
      💡 Certificate generator
  • Use Google Drawings for:
    • 💡 Infographics
      💡 Visual Guides
      💡 Digital Posters
      💡 Graphic Organizers
      💡 Interactive Images
      💡 Sketchnoting
      💡 Blueprints
  • Don't forget to follow Google Gurus and for continuous bite-sized tips!
    • #GSuiteEDU, #GoogleEDU
    • @EricCurts, @AliceKeeler, @Googleforedu, @Mrshowell24, @jessicaradams, @JMattMiller, @ShakeUpLearning

Bookmarks

Find the tools listed above and many more resources in the bookmarks below.