Organization

• Create Shared Drives for your departments to access and submit important documents

• Employee and student handbooks

• PLC meeting minutes

Documentation

• Collect and share forms to reduce paperwork

• Observation documentation

• Professional growth plans

• Special education data and documentation

Collaboration

• Flip your faculty meeting by sending out agenda items and text to read ahead of time

• Give teachers commenting permissions on the meeting notes

• Collaborate with teachers and other administrators on document creation

• Everyone can work where or when they are available and all changes are saved in real time for all collaborators

Data Collection & Analysis

• Easily compile data and share with staff or parents

• Create charts to visualize data

• Easily calculate and analyze large amounts of data to predict future trends

Data Collection

• Instead of sending out order forms for things like T-shirts, lunches, field trips, summer availability, etc., send out a Google Form so all data populates in one convenient location

• Collect inventory using Google Forms

Organization

• Log all parent contacts and share with administrative colleagues

• Create a workflow to send out automated emails based on teacher form responses

• Schedule parent/teacher conferences 

• Check-in and check-out materials to students, teachers, and parents

Organization & Efficiency

• Create organization, department, or parent email lists to easily send group emails or texts

Communication

• Connect teachers with experts around the district or across the country

• Give staff or parents who are unable to attend meetings a way to be present, either in real time or delayed

• Broadcast daily announcements or special events to the world using Hangouts on Air

Professional Development & Training

• Facilitate virtual or blended professional development activities

• Create classrooms for each department and share content-based articles

• Create classrooms for mentors/mentees to facilitate ongoing training for new teachers

Planning & Communication

• Shared calendars that can display school events for parents, students, and staff

• Create appointment slots that can be self-scheduled by students, staff, or parents

• Document important meetings and events with the ability to attach files or a Meet link and invite guests