Google Apps
Google Drive
My Drive- Includes everything you’ve created or uploaded/synced.
Incoming - Files that others have shared with you.
Starred- Files and folders you have deemed as star-worthy.
Recent- Everything you’ve recently viewed or worked on in the order it was last updated
Activity- Everything in your Google Drive in the order it was updated.
Offline- Enable offline editing so that changes made will be saved to the computer when you are not online. - Go to settings>offline.
All Items- Everything you have created or has been shared by you.
Trash- All files/folders that have been removed from your Drive.
Owner, Type, More- Sort files by type, visibility, or ownership.
Downloading Google Drive App - on your teacher computer, download the google drive app. You can put files into that folder on your computer and it will save the online as well. Go to Settings>Download Drive
Google Apps
Google Docs
Click on “New”, then “Google Doc”
Functions like a Microsoft Word document for basic formatting
- Added features include ability to share, collaborate, view revision history, publish to the web, and translate the document
Google Sheets
Click “New”, then “Google Sheets"
Functions like Microsoft Excel for basic functions
- Added features include ability to create a form from the spreadsheet, share, collaborate, and publish to the web
Google Slides
Click on “New”, then “Google Slides"
Functions like Microsoft PowerPoint for basic formatting
- Added features include ability to import selected slides from another presentation, share, collaborate, view revision history, and publish to the web
Sharing and Collaborating
- In the document, sheet, or presentation click on the blue share button in the top right hand corner.
- Enter email addresses of people you want to share with.
- Change the permission you want that person to have.
- You can also share the link buy choosing anyone with the link can edit, comment, or view.
- Then you would send out the link.
- If you change something in the document that is shared, everyone will see it.
Revision History
- Stay informed about who’s editing
- See when the site was edited
- Revert back to a previous version
Google Forms
- Forms can be used to collect data for a variety of reason
- Click “New”, then “Form”
- Create title and select theme (you can change this later!)
- Add a description if desired
- Enter in Questions- Select type of response and whether item is required
- To preview the form, click on “View live form”
- To designate where responses are collected, click on “Choose response destination”
Chrome Extensions
- Go to Google Chrome store
- Read and Write for Google
- Clean Print- cleans up the page and takes out pictures.
- Read line of text to read
- Google Tone - sends out a tone that sends the site you are on to other computers.