Gmail & Chat

Google Applied Digital Skills Lessons: Gmail and Chat

Teach your students or refresh yourself on how to use Gmail and Chat to bolster your classroom communication with students, fellow educators, or parents. Check out each lesson below for more information.

Google Workspace: GmailLearn the basic components of Gmail to help you send and receive emails.

Communicate With Your Team Using Google ChatUse Google Chat to communicate with your team, customers, or business partners.

6 Ways to Write Bad Gmails Over the years Google has improved and expanded Gmail to make it one of the easiest but most powerful email programs in the world . Despit...

Control Alt Achieve: 6 Ways to Write Bad Gmails

We all have made a mistake when replying to an email (shoutout to reply all). Eric Curts shows six common errors educators make when sending Gmails and some easy ways to fix or ameliorate the issue.

Google Workspaces - History In Chat

Learn more about the history function in Chat, which some districts have available to teachers. Learn more about Chat and other apps through Google Workspaces Shorts.

Gmail

Pro-tips

On the right hand side of your Gmail is a bar which includes your Calendar, Keep, and Tasks. It is invaluable for productivity and saving things from Gmail.
You can set your email signature in your Settings on the General tab. Just remember that screen readers cannot read images and you may want to include the text from your signature image in your signature.
You can turn on "Templates" in the Advanced tab in your settings. This allows you to save an email as a template for future use. You can also do the same using templates in Google Docs.