Overview

G Suite for Education is a set of free cloud-based tools and platform for helping students and educators interact across devices. It provides communication, collaboration, and management tools. Chinese heritage schools and teachers can utilize this online free service for administration, classroom management, teaching, or collaboration. Chinese heritage schools (non-profit organization) can apply for the G Suite for Education.

Learning Objective

I can use G Suite for education, Add-Ons and Extensions as tools to facilitate learning and provide students to access language, culture, and culture resources. (LT1d)

Learning Topics

1. G Suite for Education
2. Google Extensions and Add-Ons
3. HyperDocs & Digital Game boards
4. Google Classroom

G Suite for Education

• What is G Suite for Education?

• What is included in G Suite for Education?

Communication (Connect with email, chat, and video conference)

• Gmail
• Hangouts

Collaboration (Co-edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in real time)

• Google Drive
• Google Docs
• Google Slides
• Google Spreadsheets

Task Management (Build to-do lists, create task reminders, and schedule meetings)

• Google Keep
• Google Calendar

Classroom Management (Create classes, distribute assignments, give quizzes, sent feedback, and see everything in one place)

• Google Classroom
• Google forms

Google Add-Ons & Chrome Extensions

List of Google add-ons & Chrome extensions that Mandarin teachers should know for lesson planning, instruction, and assessment tools.

Hyperdocs

Using G Suite for Education to creating engaging & interactive hyperdocs for instruction, assessments, and homework...etc.

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is now a free service for anyone with a personal Google account. This means that all Chinese heritage school teachers can create their own online Classroom as long as they have a google account. Google Classroom saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized.