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The Case for Google Drive
  • Drive Home
    • Create button
    • Upload button
    • My Drive
    • Filter List
    • Sort by ...
    • List view / Grid view
    • Upload conversion settings

Using Docs with Students
In many ways Docs is the entryway technology for Google Apps. Creating, sharing, and editing Google Documents is incredibly easy to do AND every staff member and student is connected in an Apps domain.
   
Key Benefits
  • Available anywhere
  • Sharing / Share Settings / Email Notification
  • Saves Automatically
  • Teacher can track progress in real time
  • Revision History
  • Creating Templates, Making a Copy
  • Download As Office, PDFs, etc.
  • Research bar / citations

  • Docs - 
    • Creating a doc
    • Autosave
    • Titling doc
    • Sharing a doc
    • Privacy settings
    • Revision history
    • Comments
    • Chat
    • Research
    • Download as

Using Docs in the Classroom


Once we've mastered Docs, we can start getting fancy...
  • Slides
  • Sheets
    • Create
    • Freeze rows / columns
    • Lists of numbers, dates, days
    • Lists using sets
  • The NEW Forms
    • Creating form
    • The three parts to forms
      • form editor
      • live form
      • response sheet
    • Question types
      • text
      • paragraph text
      • multiple choice
      • choose from a list
      • grid
      • scale
      • date
      • time
    • required questions
    • branching forms
    • sections
    • page breaks
    • images
    • GAfE specific settings


Resources

Advanced
Screencast Tutorials
  • How can I manage my Google Doc files list? (Screencast)
  • Wait! Where are the docs and folders that have been shared with me? (Screencast)
  • How to find files with Search, Advanced Search, & Sort (Screencast)
  • Can I import my old Office files? (ScreencastHow about exporting to a PDF or Office file? (Screencast)
  • Upload Settings: To Convert Automatically to Google Docs Format or Confirm First? (Screencast)
  • How do I share a document with just selected users? (Screencast)
  • How do I publish a document for everyone to see? (Screencast)
  • How do I share a template with my students? (Screencast)
  • How can I collect student work in Google Docs?
    • Method #2 - A class shared collection (Screencast)
    • Method #3 - Individual student folders (Screencast)
  • How can people interact within Google Docs and what can I do with those interactions?
    • Discussions (See Adding Comments screencast)