Edmonds Digital Learning

Today’s Meet (a very cool back channel for Q&As in the classroom) is shutting down June 16, 2018. If this is a tool you’ve used in your classroom or presentations, I’d like to recommend using the Q&A session feature in Google Slides as an alternative. This will allow your audience to ask questions and even vote on the questions they would most like answered. Another one of my favorite tools for getting audience feedback is Answer Garden . This easy-to-use tool allows your audience to brainstorm and give feedback online. If you’re interested in using either one of these tools, please contact your Instructional Technology Coach for a side-by-side learning session. If you have another favorite tool you use for audience questions and/or feedback, please share it in the comments!

When adults or students are working collaboratively on a Google Doc, there’s a quick way to notify people about any comments or tasks you want to assign in the shared document. In the doc, highlight the task you want the person to do something about. Find the point in the document for the comment by hovering on the right edge of the doc and looking for the comment icon or choose Insert > Comment from the tabs. In the comment box, type an @ or + sign, then start typing the last name of the person you want to notify and the directory will come up (you can do this for multiple people). Google Docs will automatically find the name(s) from your Gmail contact list. In the comment box , you can also add what you want the collaborator to do. An email will be sent to the recipient(s) automatically.  If the person you’re tagging doesn’t have access to the doc, you will need to set the permission level for the user using the Share button. As always, if you have any questions about

Using Hapara to View Student Work Are you tired of getting shared document emails from students? Do you want to know an easier way to access student work without having your students share it with you? Well, I have some good news for you! There are a couple ways for teachers to see the work a student has done on their Chromebooks using G Suite tools (Docs, Sheets, Forms, and Slides). In the next two posts I’ll explain how you can view student work to edit or comment on it without getting 30+ daily sharing emails from students. As a classroom teacher you have access to student files through Hapara in grades 2-8, or Google Classroom which is recommended for use in grades K-6, without any extra sharing. Accessing Hapara All student documents are available for teachers to view through Hapara. This means students never have to share a document, slide, form, or spreadsheet with a classroom teacher to give access. To view student work in Hapara follow these steps: Navigate to www

Using Google Classroom View Student Work In part 1  of this post I explained how to access all student work through Hapara. If you would like a more direct way to see work that you assign to students, using Google Classroom to view student assignments might work well for you. You can see any assignment that your students create to turn in to you. The disadvantage compared to access through Hapara in part 1  is that you can’t necessarily see all of the other documents your students are creating, only the ones shared via Google Classroom. Access to Student Documents Through Google Classroom  Google Classroom allows you to access student work that you have assigned in that class.  To get to Google Classroom, you can use the Edmonds Bookmarks on your bookmarks bar, or go to classroom.google.com . Then select the class you want to view. After you navigate to the class you can choose a previously assigned assignment to view. If you have selected the option for each student to