Google Story Builder, Get notified about Google Form submissions, and more
Gone Google Story Builder – docsstorybuilder.appspot.com Cool way to make a digital story, just like a GAFE commercial. h/t +Chris McCaffrey Hangouts now supports any Google Apps customer account – plus.google.com Hangouts video meetings now support any Google Apps customer account (http://goo.gl/L5xha4), including those without a Google+ profile. Google Apps customers can start or join a […]
Grading Questions By Hand, New Add-On to Keep Google Sheet Tabs Organized, and More
Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from July 27 – Aug 2, 2015. Grading Questions By Hand – www.flubaroo.com A Flubaroo update! The popular Add-on for grading just got an update in time for fall. A newly added feature lets you assign questions your own score with the […]
Using Google Keep to raise questions to teachers (instead of hands), Google Classroom API Update, and More
Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from July 20 – 26, 2015. Using Google Keep to raise questions to teachers (instead of hands) – plus.google.com +Melissa Valence shared: Google Keep is one of my favorite tools. In my classroom (no access to hangouts with kids) we use it as an […]
Google Now Reminders Right from Search, Google Story, and more
Google begins allowing you to create Google Now reminders right from its search engine – thenextweb.com One favorite feature of Google is getting instant responses from search results — it massively simplifies currency conversion, for one thing. So it’s interesting to see that the company now lets you create Google Now reminders right from its […]
Google Docs Text Highlighter, Find Recently Opened Files in Chromebook and more
Texthelp’s Highlighting Tools add-on in Google Docs – plus.google.com Texthelp’s Highlighting Tools add-on in Google Docs lets you highlight key areas of your document to collect, group and learn from later. By “collecting highlights” you can extract them into a new document for students or educators to review. http://goo.gl/qfvyrb h/t +Bjorn Behrendt Learn the Latest Classroom […]
New Content Notifications in the Classroom App, Whitelist Domains for Classroom, and More
Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from July 13 – 19, 2015. Google partners with Khan Academy, NASA, more to teach kids science via a 4-week summer camp – venturebeat.com Emily Stiebel, product marketing manager for Camp Google, told VentureBeat in an email interview that Google always aimed […]
Launch Hangouts in Chrome without a plugin, Google Drive updates, and more
Launch Hangouts in Chrome without a plugin – googleappsupdates.blogspot.com Over the next week, users will be able to launch Hangouts in Chrome without having to download and install a plugin. This will simplify initial setup and maintenance. Users of other browsers will still need to use the plugin. h/t +Allison Mollica Google Drive Updates – plus.google.com […]
Emojis Now Available in Gmail, Computational Thinking for Educators, and More
Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from July 6 – 12, 2015. Emojis Now Available in Gmail – plus.google.com Because earth-shattering innovation happens all the time at Google, emojis are now built-in in Gmail for web! Replace files in Google Drive without changing the link to the file […]
Google Apps Admin Corner: June 2015
Google has released a few important updates for Google Apps for June. Below is a digest of some key updates and information to efficiently and effectively manage your GAFE domain. Easily migrate employee contacts from Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 to Google Apps Admins can migrate their employees’ contacts from Microsoft Exchange (2007 and above) […]
Announcing School Directory Sync, Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass, and more
Announcing School Directory Sync – plus.google.com A new version of the Google Apps Directory Sync (GADS) tool built specifically for schools is out! This utility allows an admin to export data from their student information system (SIS) and quickly sync it to their Google Apps for Education domain. With this tool it’s easy to create […]
