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Recent Changes to Google Forms
Recent Changes to Google Forms
Google recently made some changes to some of the features to Google Forms. This video from Renee Langevin at EHS gives a quick overview of some of the changes that have recently come out.
Changes to Google Forms - January 2025.mp4Sometimes we can get a lot of emails automatically sent to us. Here we will see how we can search for a set of emails, and create a filter that will automatically drop the email into a folder instead of clogging your inbox.
Your inbox can get full and hard to manage very quickly. Using Labels are like creating folders that you can store email in to search later without clogging up your inbox.
Share Link to Highlighted Text on a Webpage in Google Chrome
Have you ever wanted to highlight a section of text on a webpage and send it to a student or colleague? With Google Chrome it's super easy!
Presented by Shake Up Learning
I have noticed this doesn't seem to work as well if you are linking to a highlight on a Google Site. -RD
Turning on Two-Factor Authentication
EWSD will be requiring all accounts to use two-factor authorization by the first of the year 2022. This is a tutorial of how to set it up on your account. Better to have this set up ahead of time to avoid delays and interruptions of access to your computer.
Documentation for further information
Encrypting and Password Protecting a PDF
When sharing sensitive student information outside of the district it can be useful to encrypt and password-protect PDF documents to protect the student's and the family's privacy. This will walk you through a simple process to encrypt and password-protect any PDF document and attach it to an email.
Here is the link to the Adobe website that is featured in this video. Bookmark it for later use.
Text-to-Speech on a Chromebook - Turning it on and using it
A walk-through of how to enable text-to-speech on a Chromebook and how to use it on the screen to have the Chromebook read what is highlighted on the screen.
Snip and Sketch Tool on a Windows Machine
How to find and use the Snip & Sketch tool to capture images on your screen to use them in documents.
How to take a partial or a whole window screenshot on a Chromebook. This is one that could help your students as well as staff that use Chromebooks instead of a Windows machine.
Speech-to-Text on a Chromebook
Some students may need the typing aid where the computer will type the words that are spoken to it similar to what many of us may do on our phones from time to time. This is an embedded feature within several programs in the Google Suite and this tutorial will explain where it is in the tools and how to enable it.
Changing your Google account password
This is geared toward our incoming sixth-grade students who have had a password that consists of their student number. This walks them through changing their password to something of their choosing to increase security.
Google Document URL Tricks
These are add-ons that you can put at the end of a documents' share link that will change how that link is opened. You can have it open as a;
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Make a Copy
Make a Copy with Comments
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Reposted from Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent
WeVideo Academy
WeVideo has expanded a lot since early 2022 in ways that allow you to assign video responses to questions from students as well as manage a classroom of students and their projects. WeVideo Academy is full of tutorials on how to make this happen and more.
Version History on Google Docs
Version History is a powerful tool on Google Docs and other documents that allows you to review the changes that have been made to a document as it evolves. It also allows you to resurrect older versions of a document or to retrieve parts of a document that may have been deleted earlier on.
The Chrome extension Draftback is beneficial because it will take the version history and play it back like a screencast so you can see the evolution of the document from start to finish nearly down to the keystroke.
Chrome Settings to Pick Up Where You Left Off
Many people are reluctant to restart their computers each week because they are afraid they will lose all of their opened tabs which they will have to find and reopen. Here is a quick tutorial on how you can change your settings in Chrome so that every time you open Chrome on any device it picks up where you left off on that device.
It isn't always clear to people how saving locally on a Chromebook is different than saving on Google Drive. This video walks through the difference between these two ways to save photos and other files and how to navigate it on a Chromebook.
Using Google Chat On Google Workspace
This is a quick tutorial on how to access the Chat feature in Google Workspace. This is just like texting on your phone and can help to reduce clutter in your inbox for short messages and conversations.
Taking video on a Chromebook and sharing
Students can record videos on their Chromebooks and use them for projects or share them with a link. Many teachers do not have as much experience using the Chrome Operating System that is on the Chromebooks that our students use. This walks the user through recording a video using the onboard camera as well as the steps they need to follow to share it.
Joining a remote meeting while in a room of participants isn't always easy. You may want to comment or share material but many time the feedback from microphones and other speakers gets makes it tough. Companion mode allows you to participate on your computer without the interference of having multiple computers on the same meeting in one room.
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