Google Extensions, Add-ons & Apps
September 2016
What are Google Extensions?
Readability
Read&Write
Read&Write makes the web, documents and files more accessible - any time, any place, and on any platform or device. It's great for people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, or anyone whose first language isn't English. From reading on-screen text aloud to researching and checking written work, Read&Write makes lots of everyday tasks easier. It’s a big confidence booster for anyone who needs a little extra help with their reading and writing, at school or in the workplace.
Share to Classroom
Share to Classroom is a newer extension from Google, which allows teachers to send their students to the same website during class. Students and teachers must install this extension, which allows teachers to push out a website to the students in a Google Classroom class. While students can also push a website to the teacher.
What are Google Add-ons?
Highlight Tool
Highlighting Tool for Google Documents. Create and share customized highlighters. Save highlighted text to a separate document. Use "Highlight Tool" for additional highlighting needs in Google Documents. Create and edit customized highlighters that automatically save. Use these highlighters to highlight selected text. Export the highlighted text to a separate document by sequence or by color.
Kaizena
Kaizena is to help teachers give better feedback to students. You can pull the document into Kaizena with one click using this add-on to easily add voice comments and thoughts on student work. This is a very impressive emerging tool for teacher feedback.
Openclipart
Openclipart now provides you with more than 50,000 clipart images. This new add-on makes it easy to find and insert clipart. Simply choose ClipArt from the add-on menu and use the search box in the ClipArt sidebar to type in what you're looking for. Use the page buttons at the bottom of the add-on to view more clipart.
What are Google Apps?
DocHub
DocHub lets you mark up, manipulate, and annotate PDFs directly from your Drive account. You can insert text, drawings, and images; add highlighting and comments; and even add signatures or initials to an existing PDF document. DocHub also has a drag-and-drop interface for reordering, adding, and deleting pages along with a one-click tool for merging multiple documents into a single file.
RealTimeBoard
RealTimeBoard eliminates the drawbacks of other whiteboard apps by putting the whiteboard in your browser.You can add text, sticky notes, PDFs, images and videos, and even share documents directly from your Google Drive account. Built-in libraries of vector images help you visualize your ideas. Best of all, you can collaborate with project team members in real time, no conference room required.
Fluency Tutor
Fluency Tutor for Google lets students record themselves reading and share with the teacher - away from the pressures of reading aloud in the classroom environment. Ideal for schools using Google Apps for Education (GAFE), Fluency Tutor for Google integrates seamlessly with Google Drive and Google Classroom. And since it works with almost any online content, it’s great to use alongside other online instructional programs.
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