Apps and Web Tools for Teaching and Learning

Here you'll find some ideas and FAQs about new and existing tech tools for teachers. Experiment and consider how they might help you and your students achieve your content-area learning goals. As always, remember that Google Classroom/Google Apps for Education (Screencastify,etc.) are our most-used, most highly-supported district tools.

Read and Write for Google Chrome

This is the paid-for version (purchased by the district) of this Chrome extension accessible to all district staff and students. It can help enhance literacy by offering many ways to interact with text integrated into one tool. View full traning video at left or click on purple puzzle piece in your Chrome browser to experiment.

Functions include:

Text-reading function
Translate
Speech/read-aloud recording and sharing function
Speech to text capability
Simplify text at a click to help differentiate text length and complexity

Click here for Toolbar Map that lists all the features of Read and Write

Tutorials: Creating and Scoring Quizzes in Google Classroom

Creating a Quiz

Grading/Releasing Scores

FAQs about Locked Mode

Creating a Quiz

Grading/Releasing Scores

FAQs about Locked Mode

Tutorial Credits:Brown, Paul, director. Read&Write for Google Chrome Feature Overview. TextHelp Product, YouTube, 9 Jan. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ_nwZHsiI&feature=youtu.be.
Johansson, Andreas, director. How to Grade in Google Forms for Partial Credit or Essay Grading. YouTube, 5 Dec. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhYcZ8VOS7o
Prolific Oak Tree, director. Google Forms: Create a Quiz. YouTube, 21 Sept. 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct8cEB4yQ4M.
Image Credits:"Locked System" photo by Yuri Samoilov, flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0.

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