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Are you … Sharing, Collecting, Monitoring, & Grading Google Docs? Do you plan to?
Teachers face some logistical issues when utilizing Google Docs with students. Lucky for us, a resourceful script programmer wrote a Google Spreadsheet script just for us called Doctopus and a Chrome extension called Goobric. Together these tools allow easy use with students.
What is Scripting?
- Telling the computer what to do through software programming.
- The scripts help automate tasks.
- A Google Script is a program that is individually added to Google Apps at your discretion.
- Start with a Google Doc template (note sheet, pre-writing guide, blank document with a rubric, etc.)
- Doctopus will generate a copy of the template for each student.
- Teacher owns doc and can monitor progress
- Additionally grading can be done using Goobric (see below)
- When finished, give students ownership of the documents
- Doctopus Script youpd (creator Andrew Stillman) @astillman
- Doctopus 4.0 Walkthrough (screencast) by Jay Atwood @jayatwood
- Interview / blog post about Doctopus (Andrew Stillman)
- Create a rubric in Google Spreadsheets
- The rubric and your comments are added to the document AND the Doctopus spreadsheet
- Goobric Walkthrough (screencast) by Jay Atwood
- Create folders for each student, for a teacher, or a whole school
- Creators - Bjorn Behrendt @edlisten & Andrew Stillman @astillman
- gClassFolders Script (screencast) by Ryan Birch
- Create a quiz and test with instant feedback
- Use a spreadsheet to create, manage, and assess student Sites pages
- Creators - Bjorn Behrendt @edlisten & Andrew Stillman @astillman
- Use forms and spreadsheets to merge, create, and share documents
- autoCrat Directions by Joe Taylor
Ready to Write Your Own Script?
Challenge: Partner up and run a script!
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