Most people who start using Google Docs quickly figure out how to share with other people by entering their username one at a time, but...
Here are three different ways to make sharing and collaborating easier in Google Apps:
Contacts, Groups and Collections.
- Contacts:
- From Google: Managing Contacts
- Contacts screencast:
- Google Groups:
- Screencast from the Teacher Librarian at Golden HS: http://screencast.com/t/O8MPiBgax
- Collections (folders) in Docs
We use forms to quickly collect student info for sharing (copy/paste) We also use Forms for collecting work from students. Students still share the doc/item but then submit the URL via a form. It results in a wonderfully organized & sortable spreadsheet with student names & the link to their work. Most teachers add in a grade column & record grades right on the spreadsheet. See my Forms presentation (http://tinyurl.com/forms-for-google) for examples.
ReplyDeleteLike you Jen, I have been using Google Forms to quickly collect the students Google Sites URLs. As an elective teacher, I teach 250+ students a year, and this has been an extremely fast and simple way to easily get ALL their site addresses. Then once all the students have filled in the form, in the spread sheet I have a nicely organize list of the students name, their website, and what period they have me. In my class, their site becomes a digital portfolio of all their work from computers class. This class list spread sheet lets me quickly navigate to their site for grading.
DeleteI like the idea of adding a grade column too!
A natural use of collections in elementary is to create a collection for a class of students. Once the collection is created, teachers can easily share docs with their whole class by dragging the doc they want to share to that collection.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jen and Andi! Both are great time savers. Had a docs training this morning and some teachers were talking about the Collections (folders) also working as a "drop box" for students to turn in work - and quickly collaborate and comment on each other's docs.
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