Google for Educators
Extensions
-Black Menu: Handy access to all of your Google tools; cuts down on having so many tabs open
-Clipboard History 2: If you do much cutting/copying and pasting, this might come in handy
-Email Diction: Fairly obvious
-The Great Suspender- puts tabs you aren't using to sleep to free up memory; you can go in and whitelist domains you use constantly so they won't be put to sleep
-Lazarus Form Recovery: In case you type everything into an online form, only to discover that you lost connection or anything that would require you to type it all back over again, having this can help save you from retyping it all over.
-Simple Gmail Notes: Allows you to type sticky notes to yourself on emails you receive
-Black Menu: Handy access to all of your Google tools; cuts down on having so many tabs open
-Clipboard History 2: If you do much cutting/copying and pasting, this might come in handy
-Email Diction: Fairly obvious
-The Great Suspender- puts tabs you aren't using to sleep to free up memory; you can go in and whitelist domains you use constantly so they won't be put to sleep
-Lazarus Form Recovery: In case you type everything into an online form, only to discover that you lost connection or anything that would require you to type it all back over again, having this can help save you from retyping it all over.
-Simple Gmail Notes: Allows you to type sticky notes to yourself on emails you receive
Add-Ons
-Docutube: adds a sidebar with any videos linked in the documents
-Essay Metrics: Quickly analyzes an essay and creates a spreadsheet containing information such as average sentence length, paragraph count, reading level, etc. It will also count keywords. You do not have to wait until an assignment has been turned in.
-Power Tools: An add-on for Google Sheets to allow it to do things that can be done in Excel but not Sheets.
-Revision Assistant: Provides convention and revision symbols
-Revision History Analytics: Use this for group writing assignments; shows you how much of the work was done by each user
-Word Cloud Generator: enter a passage to see what vocabulary words kids need to know, enter their writing to see what words might be overused
-Docutube: adds a sidebar with any videos linked in the documents
-Essay Metrics: Quickly analyzes an essay and creates a spreadsheet containing information such as average sentence length, paragraph count, reading level, etc. It will also count keywords. You do not have to wait until an assignment has been turned in.
-Power Tools: An add-on for Google Sheets to allow it to do things that can be done in Excel but not Sheets.
-Revision Assistant: Provides convention and revision symbols
-Revision History Analytics: Use this for group writing assignments; shows you how much of the work was done by each user
-Word Cloud Generator: enter a passage to see what vocabulary words kids need to know, enter their writing to see what words might be overused
Security
-Log in to your Google Account
-My Account
-Connected Apps and Sites
Take away permissions you have previously given to sites or apps
-Log in to your Google Account
-My Account
-Connected Apps and Sites
Take away permissions you have previously given to sites or apps
For Fun
GeoGuessr: It drops you somewhere and you have to look around and figure out where you are; teaches kids to use visual clues
GeoGuessr: It drops you somewhere and you have to look around and figure out where you are; teaches kids to use visual clues