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Shift into Productivity!

You may already know I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. Simple keystrokes like Command + C (Copy) and Command + V (Paste) shave hours off your work time over the course of a year! Paste without formatting: Shift + Command + V: My favorite keyboard shortcut is probably Shift + Command + V or Edit>Paste without formatting . Why? I work a lot in Google Slides and Documents. I often find I copy text from one place and paste it into my slide or document. Then I need to spend time highlighting the text, changing the font style, changing the font size, and changing the font color to match my slide or document formatting. That can take a lot of time! Instead of Pasting (or Command + V), I add the shift key: Shift + Command + V. The text automatically uses the formatting already set up in the document or slide! My first attempt using Control + paste in the image below demonstrates what happens when just using the Paste command. By adding Shift + Command + Paste

Google Classroom Cleanup Detail

If you teach a semester course, you may want to consider these handy tips for cleaning up Google Classroom. Tip #1: To-Do list in Google Classroom: Look at your To-Do list in Google Classroom, and make sure you have returned all work to students. Click on the three horizontal lines on the top left. Your To-Do list is located there. Why should you return work to students? Google Classroom manages the permissions of documents that you assign using Make a copy for each student . When students turn in the assignment, they only have View Permission to the document. When you return the document, the document permissions change to student ownership. This way, you allow students access to all their work when you archive the class. If you want to clean up your To-Do list, simply click the three dots and click Mark as Reviewed any assignments you do not need to return. Courtesy Shake-Up Learning Tip #2: Clean Up the Google Drive Classroom Folder G

My Student Unenrolled from Google Classroom - How Do I Finish Grading?

Ah, students! In spite of posting several announcements in CCHS Student News NOT to unenroll from first semester Google Classrooms, some may have. This means their assignment submissions might disappear from your Google Classroom assignment view. Finding Unenrolled Student Work: If students unenroll from your Google Classroom - don't worry. You still have access to their assignment submissions, just in a slightly different place! Google Classroom built a Classroom folder located in Google Drive when you created your first Google Classroom. Navigate to this folder ( My Drive>Classroom). Within the Classroom folder, Google creates a folder with the name of each course. Find the course folder you are looking for. Within the course folder, Google Classroom creates a folder for each assignment where students will turn something in. Find the assignment folder you are looking for. The unenrolled student document should appear in the fol

Google Classroom Rubrics Now Official with Beefed Up Options!

Our Google Domain opted to participate in Beta testing Rubrics in Google Classroom. Rubrics are now officially released! If you haven't looked at this in a while, or at all, check it out. Google has provided great options for using rubrics on the web version of Google Classroom and in both iOS and Android apps! Google shared the following resources: With the new rubrics feature, you can now: Create a rubric while you create an assignment. Reuse rubrics from a previous assignment rather than having to create one from scratch. Export and import Classroom rubrics to share them with other instructors. Grade student work with a rubric from both the ‘student listing page’ and Classroom’s grading view, where instructors can select rating levels as they review the assignment. Getting Started: Google has developed supporting materials to help teachers get started with rubrics: Create rubrics for assignments Grade with a rubric Check your work with rubrics (fo

2 Time Saving Tips in Google Calendar

We all spend a lot of time using Google Calendar. I was surprised to learn a few new tricks that I didn't know existed! Go to Date: It is common to receive a list of meeting dates we need to attend for the school year or semester. It can be tedious to navigate to each date to enter the meeting on your calendar. Did you know you can type a ' g ' (short for Go to Date ), and a box will appear? Type in the date of the next event , click Go , and you are automatically taken to that date! Search: One of the things Google does best is search, so it shouldn't surprise me that you can search for events in Google Calendar. But, I didn't know that you could! Click the ' /' , and a search box appears at the top of your calendar. Enter search terms, and Google will show you all the events that meet your search criteria! Enable Keyboard Shortcuts: For these shortcuts to work, you need to enable Keyboard Shortcuts in your Google Calendar

3 YouTube Tips and Shortcuts

Most of us end up on YouTube at least once a day for a variety of reasons, including the rich educational content YouTube hosts. Hopefully, one of these 3 tips will make your experience more enjoyable! Tip #1 Autoplay Do you hate it when the next YouTube video automatically begins playing? I do! Did you know you can control that? Look on the top right, and move the slider to the left, so AutoPlay is off! Tip #2 Looping Have you ever wanted to loop a video - keep it playing indefinitely? I just learned you can do that on YouTube! While a video is playing, right-click (hold the Control Key and Click ). A submenu appears, and the top option is to loop the video! So simple! Tip #3 Closed Captions Closed Captions provide great support for all the students in your room, not just those who are hard of hearing. To enable Closed Captions, simply click a ' c ' while the video is playing. It is really that simple! For even more control, you can