During this module, we are going to look at Table Templates. These are found in the Insert Menu by clicking on Building blocks. 

These 4 options allow you to insert table templates into your document that help you track projects, files, and more.  At the time I am making this video, there are 4 options, but Google will continue to add more. For example, in the coming monts there will be a topic voting table  where you can gather feedback within a table by allowing collaborates to upvote certain items in the table. 

As you can see the Dropdowns are the heart of Building Blocks. Each table incorporates a dropdown. Both the table headings and the dropdowns can be customized.

The Product Roadmap Bulding block can be used help keep track of projects and classroom tasks. In this video you'll see how this table template can be adapted for use in your classroom. 

If you are looking to create checklists for students or rubrics for yourself to use to evaluate student work, the Review Tracker is the perfect table template. The Review Tracker can also be used to help organize personal tasks and event planning. As a bonus, you will learn how to edit dropdown options just for a particular table without making permanent changes to the default table template or impacting other similar table templates already in use within Google Docs. 

The Project Assets Building Block comes in handy to track assignments or multi step processes. 

The final option in the Building Blocks menu is to insert a content tracker 

This Content Tracker was meant to be used by publishers to track the status of their content. Normally, online publishers maintain an editorial calendar or to-do list for tracking the publishing status. With this content tracker template, it can done right from Google Docs. This could be used for bloggers and podcasters looking to manage their publications.

If that's not your thing, I adapted the Content Tracker for a couple of other purposes. 

1. Currilcum Mapping

2. Artifacts

3. Communication. Could track student visits, appointments with mentors/mentees

4. Meeting log

Please note: This feature is only available to those with Education Plus accounts. 

Educators can easily create templates for content they make frequently, like lesson plans and curriculum guides, and save them to reuse later. With just a few clicks from the @ menu, you can use saved templates instead of starting from scratch. 

When you create a custom building block, a folder called Custom Building Blocks (auto-generated) will be created in your Drive.  All custom building block templates you create will be stored in that folder and can be shared with others.