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Google Docs: Put an Expiration Date on Sharing

In 'Mission: Impossible', Ethan Hunt's top-secret messages self-destruct in five seconds. He's got just enough time to get away before they cause injury, but the practice ensures these messages will never end up in the wrong hands. G-Suite products such as Docs, Slides, and Sheets allow for fantastic collaboration, but collaborators may not need to have access forever. To solve this problem, you can set an expiration date on document sharing and, unlike Ethan, you don't have to worry about an explosion! Here's how to do it: 1. Open the document you'd like to share. 2. Near the top right corner, click the 'Share' button. 3. Enter the name or email address of the person you'd like to share the document with, select whether they are able to edit, comment, or view the document, and then click 'Send'. 4. Click the 'Share' button again and then click 'Advanced'. 5....

Google Docs: Change the Default Font

For those of you who don't have a three-year-old at home and maybe haven't seen every Disney princess movie 6,000 times, you may not know that Ariel, the young mermaid in The Little Mermaid,  desperately wants to, "be where the people are." She wants this so badly, in fact, that she makes a Faustian bargain and trades her voice with a sea witch in order to transform her tail fin into legs for three days. Yikes! "NO...Don't do it, Ariel!!!" Perhaps coincidentally, every Google Doc automatically has the font set to Arial. While you may consider your fonts and think they're neat and may even think your font collection's complete, you can choose a font and keep it permanently by changing the...What's that word again? Oh...default. You won't even have to make a deal with Ursula! Let's take a journey under the sea to find out how! 1. Open any Google Doc or create a new one 2. Click the font menu, it will say 'Arial'. Se...

Let Your Students Finish Forms on Their Own Time!

Google Forms lets you collect student information from quizzes, exit tickets, and surveys. But what about the students who don't finish in the allotted time? Did you know students can submit an incomplete form and finish it later? To allow multiple responses select these options in Settings on your Google Form: You cannot have required questions on your quiz with the exception of name and email. Make sure students know to ignore the warning (You're editing your response) you get when the form is opened a second time. Check it out using this form !