Edmonds Digital Learning

Ever wonder how much work really got done between a first draft and a final draft? Take the mystery out of that question with one of the newest features from Google Docs. Comparing documents! This useful feature can show all the differences between two documents in the blink of an eye...okay, maybe several eye-blinks, but here's how to do it! 1. Open the final draft of a piece of writing 2. Click on the 'File' menu, hover over 'Version history' and select 'See version history' 3. Looking at the menu to the right, click on the first saved version (you may need to open a dropdown to see all the former versions) 4. When you find the first version, click the three dots to the right of the version's name and then click 'Make a copy' 5. A new document will open with the date and time the first draft was completed in the document title 6. Click the 'Tools' menu and then click 'Compare documents' 7. Click 'My Driv...

Digital is fabulous, but sometimes nothing beats good old-fashioned paper for taking notes. Printing multiple Google Slides to a page with room for taking notes is one great way to do this, but the steps may not be as obvious as you'd think... 1. In the Google Slides presentation you'd like to print, click the 'File' menu 2. Select 'Print settings and preview' 3. By default, Slides will print one slide per page without room for notes, to change this, click '1slide without notes' to open the menu 4. Select the number of slides per page you'd wish to show.  5. By default, the slides will print horizontally, to change this, click 'Landscape' and select 'Portrait' 6. When you're happy with the preview, click 'Print' 7. Finally, click the blue 'Print' button

Have you ever had a long digital text and need folks to navigate to a particular sentence or paragraph quickly? With Google Docs, it's no problem. Just create a bookmark to lead your readers to the exact part of the passage you're looking to highlight. Read on to learn how to do it! 1. Open the Google Doc in which you'd like to add bookmarks 2. Navigate to the sentence or paragraph you'd like folks to find and read quickly 3. Click to place the cursor where you'd like to place the bookmark 4. Click the 'Insert' menu and select 'Bookmark'* 5. A small, blue bookmark will appear in the left-side margin 6. Right-click the word 'Link' and select 'Copy link address' 7. Share this link with folks who need to read the passage 8. When they click it will take them to that exact part of your document! *Wikipedia. 4 February, 2020. Pacific swift.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_swift .