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Interested in learning how to create slide presentations to use for your lessons? Want to know how to create digital worksheets for your students? Click below to learn how to use Google Slides to enhance your lessons and assignments.

• How to Add Slides to a Presentation

• How to Add a Text Box

• How to Add an Image From a Google Search

• How to Upload an Image From Your Computer

• How to Add a Video

• How to Add Other Items - Learn how to add a table, word art, lines, and shapes to Google Slides.

• How to Retrieve Deleted Slides or Text Boxes - Did you or a student accidentally delete something? Learn how to bring it back.

• How to Work Offline - Internet issues? You can still work on Google Slides! Check out his step-by-step guide.

• Choose a Theme for Your Google Slides Presentation - Learn how to make your presentation visually appealing by choosing a theme.

• Customize Slides in Your Presentation - Learn how to change individual slide backgrounds, text font, text color, and text size.

• How to Share Google Slides - Learn how to share your presentation with others in this short video.

  • How to Share Google Slides by Email Address - Here's a step-by-step guide to share your Google Slides presentations with colleagues.

  • How to Share Google Slides by Link - Here's a step-by-step guide to share your Google Slides presentations by sharing a link to colleagues or students.

• How to Change Sharing Permissions - In this short video, learn how to make your Google Slides presentation accessible to everyone. This is an important step when adding Google Slides presentations to your Google Site.

  • How to Change Sharing Permissions - In this step-by-step guide, learn how to make your Google Slides presentation accessible to everyone.

• How to Force a Copy - Learn how to force others to make a copy of your slides presentation. No more accidental editing!

• Using Google Slides to Create a Digital Worksheet - Click here to learn to create a worksheet for your students.

• Inserting a PDF into Slides - Want to turn a YourTurn Workbook page or a Math Reteaching page into a worksheet? Check out how to insert a pdf into your Slides presentation.

• Creating an Interactive Drag and Drop Sorting Worksheet - Great for math, reading, science, and more! Learn how to create an interactive drag and drop worksheet.

• Creating an Infinite Amount of Items for a Worksheet - This is great for providing students with manipulatives for math or shapes to use to annotate text.

• Have Your Students Collaboratively Work on a Presentation - Do you have students work in small groups? Learn how students can work together and share a slide presentation.

Want to learn how to create formative or summative assessments for your lessons? Google Forms allows you to create a personalized survey or quiz. You can add standard question types, drag-and-drop questions in the order you like, insert images, and save responses to a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Click below to learn how to use Google Forms.

• How to Create a Form - Learn the basics of Google Forms including how to create a quiz, self grade, and import grades directly to Google Classroom.

• How to Insert an Image - A quick video to show how to add images to questions. (For example this could be used to insert math images like shapes or patterns.)

• How to Insert a Video - Learn how to insert a video into a question. (For example this can be used for comprehension questions.)

• How to Customize Google Forms - Want to make your Google Form more visually appealing? Learn how to customize your Google Forms with a banner, image, and color schemes.

• How to Add Collaborators to Your Form - Step-by-step directions to add collaborators to your Google Form. (This allows other teachers to work on your Google Form as well.)

• Change Sharing Permissions - Step-by-step directions on how to share your Google Form as either:

  • • • • • • • • View Only (if you do not want the form to be changed)

                • Comment (for others to comment on the form)

                • Editor (others can make changes to the form)

• Using Google Forms for Quizzes - Need a quick something to check for understanding? This is a how to video on creating a Google Form quiz that you can use as a formative or summative assessment.

  • Creating Self-grading Quizzes - Want to save time grading assessments? Google Forms can be self graded with certain question types (multiple choice, True/False).

• Grading:

  • How to Import Grades From Google Form Quiz to Google Classroom - Grades can be directly imported to Google Classroom.

  • How to Grade Short Answer Responses in Google Forms - Students can also type in short responses. This video will show you how to grade these responses.

  • How to Set Automatic Feedback for Responses in Google Forms - Want to provide immediate feedback to your students? Google Forms allows for you to create comments that will be automatically be shown to students after they submit their form.

  • Time-Saving Settings in Google Forms Quizzes - This quick video will show you how to change the settings so point values will automatically be set for all future quizzes.

Want an easy way to post announcements, assignments, and assessments all in one place? With Google Classroom, you can easily communicate to students, post your assignments and assessments, grade the assignments, give feedback, and link to your Illuminate Gradebook. Click below to get started or elevate your Google Classroom!

• All You Need to Get Started on Google Classroom - Learn the different parts of Google Classroom.

• How to Organize Your Topics - Learn how to organize your Google Classroom with topics so your students can easily find their assignments.

• Different ways of linking assignments to your Google Site.

• Is Your Stream Cluttered? Here's a Settings Tip to Help! - Declutter your stream so students can see your announcements!

• How to Make an Assignment or Material - Learn how to assign classwork in Google Classroom.

• How to Reuse an Assignment to Save Time - Do you reuse the same assignment each week? There is an easier way to assign it. Learn here how to reuse an assignment!

• Grading - Your students have turned in work. Now what? Learn how to grade their work and return their grade to them.

  • How to Make a Comment Bank - Do you find yourself writing the same thing over and over in the private comments? Learn how to save those comments in a "comment bank" so you can reuse them when you need them.

  • How to Make a Rubric - Did you assign a writing prompt? Do you grade the same type of assignment every week? Create a rubric to make grading easier while giving feedback!

  • How to Grade Using a Rubric - This is perfect if you have made a rubric in Google Classroom and now you are ready to use it to grade. Watch this video to learn how to grade using a rubric.

  • How to Clear Out Your Gradebook for the Next Trimester - How to divide your grade book so you can clear out scores (not assignments) and start fresh for the next trimester.

• Google Classroom Integration Overview - A quick overview on how to sync Google Classroom assignments to Illuminate and post Illuminate tests onto Google Classroom.

• Post Illuminate Assessments to Google Classroom - A detailed step-by-step video on how to post Illuminate assessments into Google Classroom.

• Import Google Classroom Assignments into Illuminate Points-Based Gradebooks - A more detailed step-by-step video on how to sync Google Classroom assignments from Illuminate.

• Resync Assessment Scores Back to Google Classroom - Have you graded the constructed responses in the Illuminate assessments and need to send new scores to your students? Learn how to resync your assessment scores in Illuminate back to Google Classroom.