VCUSD Apps and Extensions

Requesting Chrome Apps or Extensions

  1. Submit a technology ticket

  2. You will be prompted to complete a Google Form with links to the app/extension, terms of use, and privacy policy and state who the request is being made for (staff and/or students)

  3. TIS checks with site principal if this app/extension is in alignment with the site instructional goals

  4. TIS reviews terms of use and privacy policy

  5. App/extension is enabled for use if it passes steps #3 and #4 above

Classroom share pulls Course assignments and announcements from your Classroom into Sheets. It allows you to edit the data in sheets and then select and push to a selected course. Use Classroom Share to develop curriculum and share it with colleagues. Sharing the Sheet with others who also have Classroom Share will allow them to import the Announcements and Assignments into their courses.

Audience:

  • Teachers

Sheets Add-on

Turn your Google Form submissions into Docs, Sheets, Slides & PDF. Share or route them automatically for approvals & sign-off.

FREE for 20 files/month

Audience:

  • Staff

Forms Add-on

formLimiter shuts off a Google Form after a max number of responses, at a date and time, or when a spreadsheet cell equals a value.

Audience:

  • Staff

Forms add-on

Adds a toggle to use a grid layout in Google Meets

Audience:

  • Staff

Forms add-on

A fast and easy way to include math equations in Google Docs, Slides, and Forms. Hypatia is a next generation smart math equation editor designed to work the way you do.

Audience:

  • Staff

Docs/Forms/Sheets add-on

Presenter allows your IPEVO document camera to capture and present class work easily.

Audience:

  • Staff

Chrome Extension

Kaizena helps teacher provide fast, high-quality feedback on student work.

Audience:

  • Staff

Docs/Sheets add-on

Send personalized emails with Gmail Mail Merge. Include different file attachments, schedule emails for sending later, CC and BCC support, track email opens, clicks, and bounces messages.

Audience:

  • Staff

Sheets Add-on

Nearpod is an award-winning student engagement platform for K-12 teachers that engages students in the classroom with interactive learning experiences. With Nearpod, students have the ability to participate in lessons that contain virtual reality, 3D objects, PhET simulations and so much more. Interactive software features empower student voice through activities like open ended questions, polls, quizzes, collaborative boards, gamified activities and more!

Audience:

  • Staff

Drive/Slides Add-on

Screen Capture FULL Web page or any part. Edit screenshots.

Audience:

  • Staff

Extension

Nod allows team members to send real-time reactions to presenters and speakers during meetings on Google Meet.

Audience:

  • Staff/Students

Meeet Extension

Interactive presentations and formative assessments to engage every student in your room, every day!

Audience:

  • Staff

Drive Add-on

Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on brings your Google Slides to life with interactive questions that can be added to any presentation. It’s the best of both worlds — design your presentation in Google Slides and engage your class through Pear Deck!

Audience:

  • Staff

Slides Add-on

  • Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy to-follow dual color highlighting

  • Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained

Audience:

  • Staff/Students

Extension

Capture, edit and share videos; works with Google Classroom.

Audience:

  • Staff/Students

Chrome Extension

Allows user to put slides in a random order.

Audience:

  • Staff/Students

Slides Add-on

Slido

Add polls and quizzes to your slides and interact with your participants in real time.

Audience:

  • VHS Staff/Students

Chrome Extension

Automatically suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory, reduce load on your device, battery and heat.

Audience:

  • Staff/Students

Chrome Extension

Capture, edit and share videos; works with Google Classroom

Audience:

  • Staff

Sheets Extension