Google Apps, Extensions, and Add-Ons

Favorite Google Apps: 

• Google Drive - Documents, Sheets, Forms, Slides, and Drawing

• Google Classroom - Management system for shared documents

• Peardeck - Presentation and formative assessments

• Google Read&Write - Reader

• Coggle - Concept Mapping

• Plotly - Spreadsheets and Graphing

Google Apps Resources and Tutorials from SPARCC

Google Extensions

"Chrome Extensions are small add-on programs that give extra functionality to the Chrome web browser. They can run small programs, or can interact with web apps, or can add new features to your browser. When installed, Chrome extensions show up as small icons in the top right corner of the Chrome browser." (SPARCC, 2015)

Favorite Google Extensions:

• Ad Blocker Plus - Automatically blocks ads on websites

• Snagit - Take screenshots of webpages and short screencasts of websites.

• OneTab - Stores all open tabs on chrome browser to speed up browsing.

• Goobric - Rubric tool that works in conjunction with Doctopus to grade and provide feedback to students on projects with rubrics.

• goo.gl URL shortener - Takes long web addresses and makes them very short.

Google Extension Resources and Tutorials from SPARCC

Google Add-On's

"Google Documents and Sheets are already very powerful, full-featured programs allowing you to create and collaborate on documents and spreadsheets online. However even with all their options, there may still be some features missing from the programs that you would like.

Thankfully Google allows third-party people to create Add-Ons that can be easily installed, which add new features and tools to Docs and Sheets." (Eric Curts, 2015)

Google Extensions Video

Google Add-Ons