Parent Square: Office Hours
Using Website
Click your name on top right and select My Account from the drop-down.
Select Office Hours and click Enable Office Hours.
Enter time and select days that you will be available to respond to direct messages.
Click Save.
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Using Math Exam Tools
Each grade level has varying tools available. Ruler and Protractor are located on the bottom of the screen. Each can be manipulated 360 degrees.
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Infinite Campus: Using your Seating Chart for Attendance
Have you created a seating chart in Infinite Campus? If so, learn how to use the seating chart to help take quicker attendance in the classroom.
Practice Sets: Importing a Google Form
Turn your Google Form assignments into a Practice Set to take advantage of the AI and interactive features.
Bookmarks Tech Tip Dec 1.mp4Creating and Retrieving Bookmarks
In Chrome:
Click the Star icon in the address bar: This is the quickest way to bookmark the current page.
Right-click anywhere on the page and select "Bookmark" or "Bookmark this page": This allows you to customize the bookmark name and folder.
Creating a Group - ParentSquare
Groups are a great way to send to targeted communication to subsets of students and/or parents such as after-school athletic teams or clubs. Once a group is created, Admin and the Group Owner are able to send communication to this group. Teachers can create groups at their own school and they can include any student in their school.
Password Management - Google Chrome
Have Chrome save your passwords for different websites.
Customizing your new tab page - Google Chrome
When you open a new tab, under the search box, you can find websites you visit often or shortcuts to websites you chose. You can also change the theme (background) to fully customize this page.
Changing Your Startup Page - Google Chrome
Customize Chrome by setting what page or pages appear when you launch Chrome on your computer.
Email Confidential Mode
With Gmail confidential mode, your users can help protect sensitive information from unauthorized or accidental sharing. Confidential mode messages don't have options to forward, copy, print, or download messages or attachments. Confidential mode lets you: Set a message expiration date.
Copy link to Highlight
To highlight the text you want to share, click and hold, then drag your mouse. To open the context menu, right-click on the highlighted text. Select Copy link to highlight.
Ruler and Protractor in Kami
See your page beneath the see-through tools. Create straight and circular lines by drawing near the Ruler and Protractor. Rotate clockwise and anti-clockwise with built-in arrows or by grabbing the end of the tools. The Ruler and Protractor are easy to move.
Show a video from specific start point
When you click on the “share” button underneath any video,click on the “Start at” button and choose the time you want to start it. It will default to that time.
EyedroppeR tool - Google Workspace
The eyedropper tool lets you select an existing color on the stage to use for your font, background, outline or highlight color. This tool is available in most Google Workspace apps (Slides, docs, drawings).
Creating a qr code - Google Chrome
Create a FREE QR Code straight from the URL bar in Google Chrome.
Creating a Folder Alias - MAcbook
Create an alias/shortcut on your Desktop to easily access your most used folders on your Macbook/Drive.
Chrome Actions - Google Chrome
Save time and stay productive with new Chrome Actions - featuring your favorite Google Workspace tools. Learn how to test these actions now from your address bar
Move file Shortcut - Google Drive
Save time organizing your Google Drive by using the "Move File" Shortcut.
Reorder your class cards - Google Classroom
Customize your Google Classroom Dashboard by clicking and dragging your classrooms into the order you prefer!
quickly add new slides - Google Slides
Just when you thought adding a new slide couldn't get any quicker, Google added a keyboard shortcut. To add a new slide, click on one of your existing slides in the filmstrip and press "return/enter" on your keyboard.
Display Image in Announcement - Google Classroom
oogle Classroom now allows teachers to add a banner image to all announcements on the stream. To do this, add a picture to your post and designate the image as the “display image”.
Scheduling a Post to Multiple Classes - Google Classroom
Teachers can now schedule posts across multiple classes in Google Classroom on the web.
Change your Opening Page - Infinite Campus
Are you tired of having to switch from Campus Tools to Campus Instruction when trying to input grades or take attendance? Make this an issue of the past by setting Campus Instruction as your default opening page in Infinite Campus.
Pageless Google Doc
Over the past few years, many of our worksheets have become digital worksheets. When formatting a digital worksheet you need to worry about multiple issues: making sure each section stays on the same page, text boxes, images that take up too much space, etc. All of this can make formatting a tiring, frustrating and time consuming process.
Introducing the Pageless Google Doc! Use the Pageless option to eliminate page breaks to create one continuous and wider canvas, perfect for digital material.
Download Doc or slides to PDF or word or PP.mp4Downloading Google Doc to PDF/MS Word
Do you need your Google Doc converted to a. PDF or MS Word or a Google slide deck to a Powerpoint? It is very simple!! Take a quick peek at the video!
Tech Tip - Originality Report Update.webmOriginality Reports *Update*
Available on Google Docs and Google Slides (NEW) Originality Reports help teachers check for missing citations quickly and easily, quickly assess authenticity of student work and help students turn in their best work. Recently Google has released Originality Reports to check for plagiarism against other student submissions in the same institution.
Creating Calendar EVent from Gmail
Keep track of all your reservations, meetings, or travel dates by viewing the synchronized events from your Gmail inbox in Google Calendar. When you get an email about an event like a flight, concert, or restaurant reservation, it's added to your calendar automatically.
Launch Classlink Blur.mp4Logging into ClassLink Via Google Chrome
Copy Link to Highlight in Google Chrome
Have you ever wanted to send a colleague or student to a specific part of an online article? In the past, you would have to send them the URL and type out directions on how to get to that specific part of the article. Google Chrome recently solved this issue by allowing users to copy a link directly to a highlight.
Remove Ads in Youtube Videos
Every second is precious in a class period. Are you tired of losing that precious time to unnecessary ads in Youtube videos? Experience this no more! Easily remove ads from Youtube videos by adding a "-" between the "t" and the "u".
Reuse Post GIF.gifGoogle Classroom "ReUse Post"
Last year brought upon various challenges as we were adapting to a partial virtual classroom. Countless hours were spent converting our worksheets to digital worksheets and posting them all to Google Classroom. Good news, all the work you did last year has made your life this year a little bit easier! Don’t recreate posts for assignments you have used in the past, just reuse them! Utilize the “reuse post” feature in Google Classroom to speed up the process when posting assignments!
Please note: When reusing posts, you will still need to input some of the assignment details (point value and due date)
Setting Your Default Font in Docs
Most people have a favorite font #Calibri. Instead of changing the font everytime you create a Google Doc, why not make it your default? Not only does this save time but it also puts a smile on your face when you see your favorite font being typed on the page.
Creating Instant Docs
You can now quickly launch new G Suite files right from your browser without having to go to Drive. For example, typing docs.new in the URL bar will launch a new Doc.
The current .new domains are:
Docs.new
Sheets.new
Forms.new
Cal.new
Keep.new
Sites.new
Image With Captions in Google Docs
Have you ever tried to create a caption for an image in Google Docs? This use to be a frustrating process until now! With the combination of Google Docs and Google Drawings, all your problems will be solved (regarding images and captions).
Add an Image with a Caption
Click Insert “Drawing” - > “+ New”
Paste your image or click the image button to upload or search for an image.
Click the “Text Box” button. Drag the textbox under the image and type in the words you want as your caption.
Click “Save and Close”
Customizing bullet checklist in Google Docs.mp4Customizing Bullet Checklist in Docs
Have you ever used a checklist in Google Docs and wanted to personalize it? It's easy to do!
Working within a Google Doc create a bulleted list and click on the top bullet-point which selects them all.
Once the series of bullet-points are selected you can then personalize them.
Change Colors
Select another colour from the Text Color picker in the menus
Select alternative styles
Right-Click on the bullet-points and a pop-up-menu appears
Select More bullets…
See the Drop-Down options for Symbols and Arrows
Try out some alternative bullet-point symbols
slidesago tech tip.webmSlidesago
Slidesgo offers an extensive catalog of free Google Slides themes and PowerPoint templates for creative presentations. These are customizable to better suit the needs of any given user, so the possibilities are endless.
Google Docs change orientation landscape or portrait.mp4Google Doc Change Page orientation
Two Ways to Change a Google Doc formatting portrait to landscape/landscape to portrait
1- Highlight content 2- select "Format"
3-Page Orientation. 4- Select Whole document or Selected Content
OR
1- Select content. 2- Right Click
3- Select change page to landscape/change page to portrait
FINAL FINDER OPENING FILES.webmOpen Native Files on Your Macbook
Opening Files Natively on Your Macbook:
1- Select Finder
2- Select "Drive" (left sidebar)
1- Select file
3- File will open in native application