Google Docs
Google Docs brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. Choose from hundreds of fonts, add links, images, and drawings.
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You can change the end of the URL on a doc for your purposes: Copy, Preview, template/preview. You can also type edit back on the end to change it back to editing mode!
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In Google Docs you can use Suggesting Mode to make changes to allow the owner to choose whether or not they want to accept your edits.
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You can open and edit most PDFs and Word documents with Google Docs.
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You can use Voice Typing to compose your Google Docs with no special software. You just need a microphone.
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You can create table of contents and bookmarks in your Google Docs to make finding information easier.
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In Google Docs, you can transfer a Google Keep note over to make a Google Doc from it.
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You can change the size of the doc page and change the background color to personalize a document.
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There are many great add-ons like Grammar & Spell Checker-Language Tool, Math Type, Scrible, & Kaizena that can add to awesomess of Google Docs.
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Use Explore to pull up Google Search results, images, or items for your own drive. Web results can cited directly from the Explore tool (but not images).
Challenge #1
- Log into your FISD Google account. Navigate to this PDF Paper
- Once you click on it, go up to Open With and choose Google Docs
- Change the size of the doc page to legal size.
- Change the background color.
- Go to Tools -->Voice Typing and add some text to the doc.
- Change the extension to copy, preview, or template/preview.
Challenge #2
- Create a copy of this doc
- Link the Table of Contents section using the bookmarks feature
- Use the Explore Tool to find some basic information about Broadway Musicals to add to the Introduction. Be sure to cite it!
- Then use Suggesting Mode to make suggestions to the Introduction.
- Use the Grammar & Spell Checker-Language tool add-on to check the spelling and grammar of the introduction. (Click Add-ons --> Get Add-ons... and search for it.)
Optional Challenge
- Use Google Keep?
- Try adding turning a Keep Note into a Google Doc!
- Make 2-3 Keep notes with comments, your Bitmoji, or anything else you might use regularly in Google Docs.
Optional Challenge
- Go to Add-ons --> Get Add-ons
- Search for Kaizena and add it to Google Docs.
- Try leaving a voice comment.
- Need help? Check out this 2 min tutorial.
