Your Phone - Google Drive - Oncourse

If you have a smart phone - you can add the Google Drive app to your phone.  Once you add the drive app to your phone, add your child's @students.discoveryhsf.org account to your phone.  When you take a picture - you can send the picture to your drive folder.  In Oncourse, you can choose the google drive and attach the image to your Oncourse assignment. 

The process:

1. Create a folder named PHONE IMAGES in your (the student's drive) that allows anyone with the link to see the pictures.  

2. Add the Google Drive App to your phone.

3. Add your child's @students.discoveryhsf.org as a Google Account on your phone.

Then - when you take the picture - send the picture to the students Google Drive.

How to do that:

FIRST SET UP YOUR DRIVE FOLDER ON THE CHROMEBOOK

1. Go into your child's drive folder on the chromebook.

2. New - make a new folder (Name it PHONE IMAGES (or something similar).

3. This step is critical and was not in the video below. - Change the sharing settings for the folder so anyone can see what's in the folder (this will allow the teacher to see the image you send - not everyone in the world)

   1. Right click folder icon (picture of the folder) - click share

   2. Under get link - change to Discovery Health Sciences Foundation - Viewer

4. When you take the picture and save it into that folder - you won't have to change the setting for each picture.  

When you submit an assignment in ONCOURSE - click on the Google Drive icon to choose the file.  Find the folder - and find the file.  

Comments from Parents - It wasn't working for assessments on an Apple device.  " thinking it may be my photo size I tried a few other things.  I think the issue I was having is that I had to "use camera" to add the paper to the google drive. That image size is too large. But I could not take the photo with my camera and then upload because it was uploading as a .HEIC type file which is not acceptable for attaching to the assignments. So my latest attempt was taking a photo with my phone and resizing it in an app, which exports back to my camera roll as a .jpeg and then uploading that to the google drive. This uploaded very quickly to the assignment!  "  HEIC is a new file type used by Apple.

According to Wikipedia:

High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container format for individual images and image sequences. It was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and is defined as Part 12 within the MPEG-H media suite (ISO/IEC 23008-12). Apple has said that an HEIF image using HEVC requires only about half the storage space as the equivalent quality JPEG.[1][2] HEIF also supports animation, and is capable of storing more information[citation needed] than an animated GIF or APNG at a small fraction of the size.[citation needed]

Introduced in 2015, HEIF was adopted by Apple in 2017 with the introduction of iOS 11, and support on other platforms is growing.[citation needed]

HEIF files are a special case of the ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF, ISO/IEC 14496-12), first defined in 2001 as a shared part of MP4 and JPEG 2000. This file format standard covers multimedia files that can also include other media streams, such as timed text, audio and video.

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