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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 ...

If you’ve ever crossed your fingers and hoped that students (or adults!) won’t alter a Google Doc you’re having them make a copy of, try forcing users to make a copy of your document. This way of sharing allows each user to make a copy of your original, and the copy is now fully owned by the user (so it lives in her/his Google Drive). To do this with any G Suite app (docs, sheets, drawings, slides) go to the end of URL and replace the word edit after the forward slash with “copy”. If your shareable link has other characters besides “edit”, don’t worry, just replace edit with copy. When users open the link, it goes to a screen with a Make a Copy button and your original won’t be altered. To allow users to preview your document as a template, without being able to edit it, replace edit with “template/preview”. This is will create a combination of a preview with the option of making a copy. Template links are great for users to see the document before making a copy. This copy will ...

Students at all grade levels have an email address and default password to login to their GSuite account and the default password pattern is often taught in elementary grades. This helps students remember their password but it also poses a problem for students interested in accessing a classmate’s password to cause mischief. Here are 10 reasons teachers (yes, even elementary teachers!) should teach students how to reset the default password. Using a birthday chart posted on the wall, students can figure out someone’s password and access the account as an intruder. Intruders can make changes or delete work (this is where learning how to find the revision history on a Google doc comes in handy). Intruders can send malicious emails from someone’s account. Inappropriate docs or slides can be created by intruders. Intruders can destroy files. Intruders can do non-schoolwork searches from a classmate’s account. Intruders can access personal information. Intruders ...