Google in the Classroom. Add-Ons to Make Your Life a Little Easier

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1 Google in the Classroom Add-Ons to Make Your Life a Little Easier

2 Hello! I am Krystal Weeks Your mission if you choose to accept it is to love Google and try it in your class! You can find me at kthames@ccpsonline.net

3 What is an Add-on? Let s discuss that.

4 Add-ons in Google are small programs built by third-party that bring more functionality to Docs, Sheets, Slide, Gmail, and Forms.

5 Where can you find them? First - Open Docs, Sheets, or Forms. Second - Click on Add-ons Third - Click on Get Add-ons WHat will happen Add-on gallery will open Search and find the add-on you want to use Click free and accept the terms Add-ons will appear in a drop down menu on the menu bar

6 Manage your add-ons Click on the add-ons menu On the menu bar, you will find Manage Add-Ons Once add-ons are installed, you can manage each one individually, and turn them on and off at any time.

7 Some of my favorite Docs add-ons Word Cloud Generator Formenate Doc to Forms Orange Slice Highlight Tool URL Shortener Template Gallery EasyBib Consistency Checker Show Text Cleaner Easy Accents Lucidchart diagrams Proofread Bot Table of Contents Doc Tools

8 Formenate This add-on will take existing google docs and turn them into google forms. This is useful for taking all those tests you already have created and making them electronic! This is especially good with paired with the new quiz function in google forms or Flubaroo.

9 Doc to form Like Formenate, Doc to Form will take an existing google doc and turn it into a google form. The difference is that Doc to Form will allow you to insert different types of questions, whereas Formenate will only allow you to create multiple choice questions. The downside of this add-on is that you are still having to highlight and/or copy and paste the text you want on the form.

10 Orange SLice Orange Slice makes it easy to grade writings that your students have shared with you. You can use an existing rubric or you can create a rubric right there, using the app.

11 World Cloud generator Create word clouds using the words you have typed in google docs. Using Word Clouds in class Can: Help improve vocabulary Determine important ideas and concepts erators-classroom/

12 Highlight Tool Create and share customized highlighters. Also, save highlighted text to a separate document.

13 URL Shortener This add-on takes long URLs and generates a shorter URL for you to use in whatever application you choose.

14 Doc Tools This is a set of single-click tools for Docs so that you can change word case, highlight text, sort tables, etc...

15 Table of contents This add-on puts the Table of Contents in the sidebar. This makes it easier so that you do not have to go to the beginning constantly.

16 Easy bib With this add-on you can use to search for books, journals, and websites. You can create citations in multiple formats all within the document.

17 Consistency Checker Consistency Checker helps by keeping you in the same writing style throughout. It checks for possible errors in your writing but, It DOES NOT check grammar.

18 Show This add-on displays the non-printable characters in a Google Document.

19 Text Cleaner This add-on removes hidden features when you borrow text from other places. You can preserve items like words in italics or bold.

20 Easy Accents Easy Accents gives you a virtual keyboard that helps you insert letters and accents found in multiple languages. Also available in Slides.

21 Template Gallery Template Gallery allows you to look at a large gallery of professional templates such as calendars, invoices, letters, resumes, etc.. Also available in Google Sheets!

22 Signature Signature allows you to sign your document using your mouse. It s your signature not just a fancy font.

23 Lucidchart Diagrams This add-on allows you to insert flowcharts, mind maps, and many other diagrams. Also available in Sheets and Slides

24 Proofread Bot Proofread Bot takes your document and checks for grammar issues. But, it only checks up to 2,000 words a day.

25 My favorite add-ons sheets Save As Doc Split Names Merge Values Remove Duplicates Sort By Color Crop Sheet Doctopus Flubaroo Online Rubric Slides Creator Power Tools QR Code Generator Sudoku Sheets

26 Save As Doc Converts any Sheet into a Doc so that it is easier to read long cell texts.

27 Split Names This add-on splits full names into several columns with first, middle, last names, titles, and post-nominal letters.

28 Merge Values Merge-Values will join selected, rows, columns, and/or ranges and keep all original data intact.

29 Power Tools This add-on allows you to use one click solutions for tasks such as splitting cells, cleaning up data, using formulas, etc...

30 Remove Duplicates Remove Duplicates allows you to easily find duplicate or unique values between two tables or in one sheet.

31 Sort By Color This allows you to color-code your spreadsheet by cell or font color.

32 Crop Sheet A sheet in Google has 26 columns and 1000 rows by default. This add-on eliminates the extra rows and columns.

33 QR Code Generator This add-on lets you create your own from values in Sheets.

34 Sudoku Sheets This add-on allows you to create Sudoku puzzles from multiple difficulty levels. It also has an assisted mode for when you get stuck.

35 Doctopus Doctopus is a tool that helps teachers with scaffolding, organization, management, assessing student work

36 Flubaroo Flubaroo helps grade assignments, analyze the assessment, and instantly score student work.

37 Online Rubric Online rubric allows you to create customizable rubrics, grade work, and them to students.

38 Slides Creator This app helps you merge Sheets into Slides. You can create presentations with information, images, charts, etc.. from Sheets.

39 My favorite add-ons for forms FormLimiter Form Recycler Simply Send Form Values Interactive Forms

40 Form Limiter This add-on shuts off a Google form after a max number of responses, at a certain date and time, etc...

41 Form Recycler This helps you recycle questions from other Forms you have in your Drive by selecting them in the sidebar.

42 Simply Send Simply Send allows you to easily send the results of a form via to people you have listed

43 Form Values Form Values allows you to keep and use items of multiple question types you use over and over so you do not have to keep typing them.

44 Interactive Forms This add-on helps you create Slides that can be populated from Forms. The Slides can be updated in live time by students using Forms.

45 My favorite add-ons for Slides Insert Icons Top Stock Photos For Google Slides Photo Slideshow Easy Accents-Slides Magic Rainbow Unicorns Pear Deck Sourcera

46 Insert Icons This add-on has free icons that can be put directly in Google Slides. There are multiple colors and icons you can import into your slides.

47 Top Stock Photos For Google Slides This allows you to help make your document shine with the best free stock photos from Pexels-without leaving Docs.

48 Photo Slideshow This add-on helps you get pictures from a Google Photos album or a Google Drive folder.

49 Easy Accents-Slides With Easy Accents, just like with Docs, you can easily insert accent markers for multiple languages into your Slides.

50 Magic Rainbow Unicorns This add-on helps you amp up your slides from plain black and white font to a rainbow of colors.

51 Pear Deck Pear Deck is an awesome tool and with this add-on to you can create formative assessments and interactive questions right in your presentation.

52 Sourcera This add-on allows you to search areas such as museums and libraries for images and embed them in your presentation. Also available in Docs.

53 Extensions Screencastify PDF Mergy Grammarly Google Keep Google Translate

54 Google Keep You have found a website, picture, or quote that you like. Keep it! This extension allows you to save with a single click. Found a website, picture, or quote you like? Keep it!

55 Google Translate Highlight text of any size and translate into any language.

56 Grammarly Grammarly helps you improve your written messages. It will check your grammar and spelling everywhere you type on the web.

57 Screencastify Record what you are doing on screen, webcam, or desktop. Edit the video with this extension. Awesome for flip classroom!

58 PDF Mergy This extension is a web application that will allow you to combine PDF files.

59 Build your own Are you interested in creating your own add-ons? Google Support has directions for creating them. What can you create? You are only limited by your imagination!

60 Google Classroom Example from my classroom: 1. I have my class set up. 2. I teach my class using Google Slides, Sheets, Docs, etc 3. I test my students using Google Forms. 4. The answers are downloaded into a Sheet and graded on that Sheet using an add-on. 5. Those scores are returned to the student through Classroom.

61 Google Drive Real world example: 1. I uploaded all of my word, excel, powerpoints etc into my drive. 2. I converted them to Google Applications. 3. Using add-ons I have created a paperless classroom by converting word documents to Google Docs, Use Doc to Forms and test my students as seen in the previous slide.

62 Thanks! Any questions? You can find me

63 Credits Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: Presentation template by SlidesCarnival Photographs by Unsplash Paper texture by GraphicBurguer

64 Presentation design This presentation uses the following typographies Titles: Cinzel Body copy: Libre Baskerville You can download the fonts on these pages: You don t need to keep this slide in your presentation. It s only here to serve you as a design guide if you need to create new slides or download the fonts to edit the presentation in PowerPoint

65 SlidesCarnival icons are editable shapes. This means that you can: Resize them without losing quality. Change fill color and opacity. Isn t that nice? :) Examples: