Add Digital Stickers
When using Google Slides, the small yellow icon 💡 to the right of your screen represents Google Keep. Normally used for storing digital notes, Google Keep is the ideal app to store digital stickers for placement onto student slide decks when grading in Google Classroom. Hundreds of digital stickers are available for download from Canva.com (Canva is not approved for student usage). Add downloaded stickers into your Google Keep as a “note with new image” and then drag stickers into student slide decks while you're grading in Google Classroom. The sticker can be resized and moved.
Table Header Row
Have a long table that spans multiple pages in Google Docs? Need the table header to appear on more than just the first page? You can now turn table rows into header rows that repeat at the top of each page of the document.
Steps:
Right click inside the row you need to appear at the top of the table in each page.
In the menu that pops up, select “Pin header up to this row.”
You can also hover to the left of the row you want to pin and click on the push-pin icon.
Edit Slide Theme
If you use Google Slides for assignments and want to prevent students from moving or deleting slide content, you can lock it in place 🔒 using the slide master (now called theme).
Once your desired slide content is in place, select it all, then copy it, then delete it. Go to the Slide menu and select “Edit theme.” Paste the content onto the slide master, making sure that you're editing a theme that is NOT used by all slides. Close out of the theme builder, return to the slide menu and select “Apply layout,” choosing the layout you just created. So long as students don't know how to update slide themes, they won't be able to change your locked elements.
Clickable Images
Students lose out on a lot of detail when photographs are resized to perfectly fit onto a Google Slide. By first saving an image file to your Google Drive and then include a link to that file in your Google Slide photograph, you can turn any image into a clickable one that students may examine in further detail. Try enlarging the painting in the Google Slide file to the left.
The Steps:
Save the image as an independent file in your Google Drive—be sure to change the share restrictions
Select the image on your Google Slide
Click on the link icon in the upper toolbar
Insert the image's View share link from your Google Drive
Be sure to alert students to the fact that the image is clickable.
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