The JoeZoo Express Add-On for Google Docs can save you a lot of time with giving feedback on student work. With this add-on, you simply highlight text on a document and then select feedback statements from a huge menu of feedback statements. You can use standard feedback statements provided by JoeZoo or set your own statements to re-use throughout your documents. This add-on would be especially helpful if you find yourself constantly referring back to a rubric. JoeZoo offers a free rubric builder tool that allows you to customize a rubric and insert it into students' documents when you are grading their work. JoeZoo also integrates with Google Classroom to streamline the returning of work.
You may have already noticed this but Google just recently launched a new feature for Docs that makes navigating your documents a whole lot easier. When you are working with long documents, it can sometimes be difficult to scroll and find the section that you are looking for. Now, you can just use the Document Outline toolbar on the side of your document to jump to a particular section in one click. Go to Tools > Document Outline to hide/show the toolbar. The outline will automatically be built and headers will be added for you if you haven’t done so manually. You can always edit the headers that were chosen for you if you wish. Be sure to share this new tool with students so that they can be more efficient with their online writing.
Google released several updates for Google Apps for Education users last week. Here are just a few:
1. Share to Classroom is a new Chrome extension that will let you push web pages to your students’ screens. They will not need to click any links, the pages will just appear on their screens. Read more about it here. 2. Explore is a new feature of Google Sheets. Explore provides suggested graphs and charts based on the data in your spreadsheets. Click here to learn more. 3. There is a new way to access the Google Drive templates gallery. Watch a video here to see the new option. 4. Voice typing is now a native feature of Google Documents. It works quite well. See it in action in a video here. There’s a tool for Google Docs that is similar to the Track Changes tool in Word or Pages. If you're reviewing a document and want to suggest changing some text, you can suggest edits to the owner of the document without affecting the original text. Your suggestions won't change the original text until the document owner approves them. If a suggestion is denied then it reverts to the original text. These suggestions are easy for the owner to see because they appear in green text with a detailed comment on the side of the document that shows the actual suggested change. Once you are in Suggesting mode, you just need to start typing to begin suggesting edits. Using Suggesting mode is more efficient than just leaving comments or actually changing the owner’s document. This feature of Google Docs is great for proofreading, grading, and peer editing.
Your favorite table formats from MS Word and Pages are also available in Google Docs with the Table Formatter add-on. From any Google Doc, just go to Add-ons > Get Add-ons... and search for Table Formatter. Add this add-on to create professional looking tables in Google Docs very quickly and easily.
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