Hi everyone and welcome to the 2018 school year!
Below are a couple of short videos going over some of the changes that Google Classroom has update to.
What’s New In Google Classroom 2018 – Overview
What’s New In Google Classroom 2018 – Topics
I will be adding more videos that will go over changes that Classroom and other G Suite tools have recently gone through.
Stay tuned!
Google Drive for the web is getting a bit of an update to align with Google’s latest material design principles.
Don’t worry, functionality isn’t changing, just a new look and feel, new logo and some options are moved to different places
image sourece: G Suite Updates Blog. https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/05/google-drive-ui-updates.html
You can add checkboxes to cells in a spreadsheet. Use checkboxes for many purposes, like to track a project, take attendance, and check off your to-do list.
For more information, visit the official Docs Editor Help page.
You can save time by automating repetitive tasks with macros.
For more information, visit the official Google Docs Editor Help page.
For even more information on the latest updates with Sheets, visit the G Suite Updates Blog post here.
The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries.
Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event.
One-hour tutorials are available in over 45 languages. No experience needed.
Ages 4 to 104.
This year, GSuiteHelp.ca would like to share with you that there’s an awesome Hour of Code activity for students to Create your own Google logo!
This activity is provided through the CS First with Google program, which is one of many initiatives at Google focused on improving access to computer science in education.
For a link the to the teacher resource page for this activity, packed with full lesson plans, information flyers and certificates for completion, click on the link below.
Create your own Google logo – Teacher Resources
Two awesome new features that are now available
in Google Slides:
To learn more, watch this short video:
VIDEO: What’s new in Google Slides: Grid View and Insert from Keep
Last year, Google made it easier to keep Google Sheets charts up-to-date in Docs and Slides, which was awesome.
If you didn’t think it could get any better, well it did.
Now, they’re making it simple to keep tables updated, too. Just copy and paste data from Sheets to Docs or Slides and tap the “update” button to sync your data.
Source: G Suite Updates Blog
Even more – you can now visualize and share your data in a Sheet with the new Explore feature.
Source: G Suite Updates Blog
For more information, visit the G Suite Updates official blog post.
Google Classroom is now available to users without G Suite for Education accounts. Teachers and students in many different environments can now teach or attend classes, manage assignments and instantly collaborate—all with their personal Google accounts.
G Suite for Education administrators will see updated Classroom settings that give them new controls over who can join their classes from personal Google accounts or from other G Suite for Education domains. This update gives schools more flexibility in how they collaborate with other organizations and students: For example, student teachers or visiting students can now easily integrate into their host school or university’s Classroom set-up.
To learn more about this, visit the Google for Education official blog post.
In case you wanted to yell – or not yell – more easily in a Google Docs, this is a great new feature that has been long awaited for you!
Coming soon, if it hasn’t appeared yet, is a nice formatting option that will allow you to change a selection of text to either lowercase, UPPERCASE, or Title Case:
For more information, visit the G Suite Updates blog post by clicking here.