Creating a Virtual Classroom Background

We all have lessons where we want students to annotate a drawing, labeling parts of a cell, naming the states, whatever. You can do that in slides, but what if that is part of a larger assignment that involves typing? All you have to do is insert a drawing, put the picture in and have the students annotate it.

The video below shows how to do this, but I will walk you through it step by step.

* In your google doc go to insert, choose drawing and new drawing

* Paste the picture that you want the students to annotate adding any instructions with a text box.

* Save & close the drawing (The drawing will insert into your google doc where your cursor was when you went to insert in step 1)

* Instruct the students to double click the picture to annotate.

See the video here 

Extra Bonus tech tip

To quickly make bullets use the keyboard shortcut Crtl-Shift-8 for numbers Crtl-shift-7

G Suite is a COLLABORATION tool! It is important that you know how to COLLABORATE and edit the same Google Apps document with others. Share button is located in the upper right hand corner of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.  By default, your Google Docs are private and saved in Google Drive.

Click On the Share Button

Type in the email address of the person you want to collaborate with. This will give them edit access.

Click on the tiny arrow next to the pencil to change to view or comment access.

Click on Advanced

Click on “Advanced” in the bottom right hand corner.

Click on “Change” to change from Private.

Anyone with the Link

Choose 2nd option: “Anyone with the link.”

Notice the option for “Can view.” You can click and change to “Can edit” or “Can comment.”