The Bonus

Written tutorials

Notice that in most cases, the blue circled numbers in the image correspond to the numbers in the text description.

Define Your Look

Choose a look for your site. Each theme comes with a preset background, color scheme, and font selection.

  1. Change the background image:
    1. Open your site.
    2. Hover over the background image and click Change image.
    3. Select an image from the Gallery or choose another image to upload.
    4. Click Select.
    5. (Optional) To go back to the original background image, click Reset.
  2. Change the header type:
    1. Hover over the background image and click Header type .
    2. Choose an option:
      • Large banner, or Banner, or Title only
  3. Change the theme and font style:
    1. In the top-right corner, click Themes.
    2. Select a theme option and choose a color.
    3. Click Font style and select a style.
    4. Use color options provided, or add your own.


Theme Samples

This slide deck runs through the theme choices, and the font styles that go with them. You can choose a preset color, or add your own.

Collaborate with Colleagues

  1. Choose an option:
    • To share a site from Sites, click Add editors.
    • To share a site from Drive, in Drive, select the site file and click Share.

2. To set permissions for individual people:

    • In the Invite people box, enter the names or email addresses of people in your organization you want to share your site with then, click Send > Done.

3. Change people’s permissions:

    • To give permissions, click the Down arrow next to the person’s name and select a permission level.
    • To remove permissions, click the Down arrow next to the person’s name, and click Remove.

Sharing is a great option for teachers in the same department to make one resource page for the grade level or department.

Students can also collaborate on a site as a culminating project in a content area, or as any other group project product. Learning to collaborate digitally is a 21st century skill and Google Sites makes it easy for students using Chromebooks (Sites can't be created on iPads at this time)