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!
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
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.
G Suite has come out with some amazing updates that are what you would call ‘head turners‘!
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/10/five-new-ways-to-reach-your-goals.html
The most exciting highlight in the most recent post would have to be the ‘File Upload‘ question type in Google Forms. Respondents within your domain can now upload files from their computer or Drive as a question response, which organizes the files neatly in a Drive folder for you!
Visit the official G Suite Updates blog post to see other new exciting updates: Five new ways to reach your goals faster with G Suite.
Google Forms just got a whole lot better.
You can now tell your Google Forms the correct answers for multiple choice, dropdown and checkbox-type questions.
Watch our video to learn how to go about this.
Video: How to make a Google Form a Quiz (with self-marking!)