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Here you will find a series of short guides demonstrating common tasks when studying at Grwp Llandrillo Menai
Here you will find a series of short guides demonstrating common tasks when studying at Grwp Llandrillo Menai
College systems
College systems
Google Chrome Bookmarks
Google Chrome Bookmarks
When you are enrolled on a course in the College, you will be given a college Google email (Gmail) account. Along with this you get access to a huge number of useful Google tools. One of these is your Google Drive.
Uploading assignments to Google Classroom
Uploading assignments to Google Classroom
Moodle
Moodle
Getting started
Your course page
Turn It in
You can also find more detailed help on using Turn It In on the Referencing and Plagiarism section of this site.
student_upload_assignments.pdfRecording and sharing handwritten work
Recording and sharing handwritten work
Depending on your course, you may need to hand write some of your assignments or record practical portfolio work. How you do this will depend on the technology you have access to and the agreed process discussed by your tutor. Please ask your tutor what you need and if they are setting up shared folders.
If you have a smart phone or tablet, make sure you have downloaded the Google Mail and Google Drive apps. Some courses may also require you to download the Google Classroom, Moodle or OneFile apps.
Photo attached to email or shared to Drive
The most basic way of recording and sharing your handwritten or practical work is to take a photo with a smart phone or tablet and share it by email or upload it into your Google Drive and then share a folder.
This allows your tutor to view your work and make comments in a reply. However the pictures are sometimes not clear enough to mark accurately. Photographs can also have a large file size or can be difficult to open depending on the software available.
Photo saved as PDF and shared to Drive / Classroom
To create a clearer picture of your handwritten work, and help your tutors to add notes directly onto the image, it would be helpful to use a scanning app to record your work and save it as a different file type.
You take a photo of your work within the app, it creates a clearer image and you save the image as a PDF file. This allows you to add multiple photos into a file, which saves time and storage space. You can then share that file on your phone or tablet to whatever upload location your tutor has recommended.
Helpful Apps to record work
Helpful Apps to record work
Office Lens
Office Lens
If you feel confident in using Microsoft tools, or already have a Microsoft OneDrive account alongside your Google Drive, then MS Office Lens is a useful app to download. OfficeLens allows you to take photos of your work, crop the image, add multiple images to one document and save that document as different file types. However, to convert a photo to different file type, it must be saved to OneDrive first. Then you can share a file from OneDrive to whichever location your tutor has requested. Another useful feature of the app is 'add text notes' which allows you to add text onto your PDF image.
CamScanner
CamScanner
CamScanner is a useful alternative app to record work. It is free to download - in November 2020 students are being offered the premium version for free. It enables you to take photos of your work, crop the image, add multiple photos to a single document and save as different file types - but it saves the converted file in the app. This means you can share it directly to whichever location your tutor has requested without having to download somewhere else it first. However, you cannot add text or notes to any of the scanned images in the app.
Canva Basics
Canva Basics
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