Essential Google Apps: Anyone With the Link Can View

by admin | Aug 28, 2020 | Beginner, Docs, Google

Recently Google has updated the interface for how to share documents. By default documents you create are private. Changing the settings then defaults to sharing at your school. To allow parents and those outside of your domain to see your documents you need to take...

Give Checklist Feedback in Google Docs using Google Keep

by admin | Jul 20, 2020 | Advanced, Docs, Google, Keep

Google Keep is a application that allows you to create notes and checklists. It integrates with Google Docs making it an easy way to add feedback to student work. Create a Checklist When you go to keep.google.com you want to click on where it says “Take a...

Google Docs: Change Background Color

by admin | Dec 21, 2019 | Advanced, Docs, Google

Why Be Boring? The default background in Google Docs is white. But why not be more colorful! See this activity in a Google Doc where I changed the background to brown. alicekeeler.com/eatabrownie Page Setup Use the File menu in your Google Doc to choose “Page...

Using Microsoft Immersive Reader with Google Docs

by admin | Dec 11, 2019 | Chrome, Docs, Google, Microsoft

Have Documents Read to Students with Immersive Reader UDL, Universal Design Learning, is a principle for designing lessons that accommodate all students. What is good for a student with special needs is also good for other students. Students with Dyslexia benefit from...

File -> Email Collaborators

by admin | Nov 1, 2019 | Advanced, Docs, Google, Sheets, Slides

G Suite is About COLLABORATING I love that G Suite is designed first around collaboration. I had a buddy in Ireland I was chatting with the other morning and I told him to make a Google Sites (http://sites.new) and share it with me. I go to Google Drive and click on...

Available OFFLINE – Google Apps

by admin | Sep 23, 2019 | Docs, Drive, Google

  Make Google Apps Available Offline I want to fully live in the cloud. I want ONE version and 100% confidence that it is the correct version. NO COPIES. I do not want to work on a document, share it with someone else and we have two different versions, different...