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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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". 

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)

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.

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

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”

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

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.

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