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Share Docs Without the Editor

Here’s another quick tip for sharing documents from Google. This trick works with any Google item (Docs, Sheets, etc) and is similar to the fast-copy trick. View Only Sharing When you share a doc as view only, the viewer still sees the entire editor. This takes up screen space, takes longer to load, and it can confuse people who don’t use Google docs often because they can’t edit anything. They can still request edit access, which is nice in case you meant to give them edit access but forgot. Share Without the Editor You can make a quick change to...

Springappalooza Week 4: Q&A in Google Slides

If you use Slides at all for presenting, there is a great tool built in which allows students to post questions. It’s called Q&A and runs inside a presentation you’re using – no add-on or apps required. Starting a Session If you’re using Google Slides, you can start a presentation from your computer or the iPad. The presentation has to be running in order to launch the Q&A session. Using the Present menu at the top, click on Presenter View to launch the presentation and show you the tools. Laptop Session If you’re on your computer or laptop, you control...

Bookmark Organization Tips

If you’re anything like me, when you’re researching for class, you open tab after tab of websites and slowly work your way down the row. As I find things I like, I keep the tab open. If it’s not something I can use, I’ll close it so I don’t have to remember what was there. After I have all of my tabs lined up, the question of what to do next comes up. Sometimes, I’ll narrow it down to one useful page. Other times, I’ll want to remember what I had opened. Here’s where bookmarks in Chrome can be really...

Creating Custom Email Lists from a Spreadsheet

Gmail is great for creating lists of email addresses for mass mailings. But, if you have dozens of students, it’s tedious to either, A) type every email into the list one by one, or B) go through the directory of thousands of students to add them to your group. I wrote up a Google Sheets template which will add emails right from the Sheet using a custom script. You put the name of the group into the input box and it does the rest. Take a look at the video below for how it works. You can jump into your...

Power Up Chrome for the New School Year

Welcome back to school! We’re incredibly excited to welcome all teachers and students back for the new school year. To help you get started, we wanted to share some easy things you can do to work smarter (and more efficiently) in Chrome.   Stop Forgetting Passwords Elkhart teachers can now use password management extensions in Chrome. This is a really powerful way to free up some brain power during the day. Introducing: LastPass. LastPass is a secure way to manage your passwords in Chrome. Follow the steps below to get started: Download the LastPass extension from the Chrome Web Store....