Weekly Tech Tips

In Classroom, when students open an assignment, their document will open in a new tab, leaving the assignment's instructions hidden on their previous tab. Alice Keeler's come up with a brilliant solution for this in the Classroom Split Chrome Extension.
Give it a try!

Go to the Chrome Web Store and add the extension. 

Once you've added it, open an assignment in Classroom and click on the extension.

You will now see your screen split into two parts. One with the assignment's instructions and the other with the copied document.

Tech Tip of the week #2 is also from Alice Keeler! It is a quick settings change that will allow you to automatically convert any Word Docs that are shared with you into Google Docs.

Step 1: Open your Google Drive

Step 2: Click on the gear icon at the upper right

Step 3: Click Settings

Step 4: Check Convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format

Google Classroom

It has never been easier to go paperless in your classroom. Google Classroom is now available to all Google Apps for Education schools and allows seamless integrating of your Google Drive, online class discussion, collaboration and more. For a quick guide to getting started, check out this video:

For more ideas and suggestions for use, check out these two excellent blog posts:
20 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom
3 Different Things You Can Do With Google Classroom
If you're ready to get started and would like my help, please let me know!