Google

• Getting Going with Google (1:24): make sure you're using the correct Google account (ie, work versus personal), find and arrange your apps

• Sharing with Google: see the advantages that "sharing" files has over attaching them to emails, learn about different sharing settings, create links for files and photos to send and embed them

 

Gmail

• Getting Going with Gmail (2:51): pick an inbox view, use labels to organize emails, select a theme to customize your inbox's look

• Next Steps with Gmail (2:20): activate the "Send and Archive" and "Undo Send" features, add your photo and signature, create a vacation responder

• Doing More with Gmail: share files rather than attaching them, get and send work emails on another account

 

Google Drive

• Getting Going with Drive (3:09): navigate your Drive, create and organize folders, add files from from your computer or Gmail

• Next Steps with Drive: create and organize documents, search for files, share folders and documents

• Download Drive to your desktop: Google's web page with instructions if you want your Drive files to be locally on your computer as well as synced to the cloud. 

• Office with Drive: install the Office Editing for Docs, Sheets, and Slides extension to edit Office docs through Drive 

• Notability and Drive Workflow (2:03): distribute a worksheet or article via Drive, then have your students fill out or annotate

• Storing a Doc in Multiple Folders (1:28)

 

Google Docs

• Getting Going with Docs: create and name a Doc, organize and share a doc, publish your Doc as a web page

• Next Steps with Docs: give feedback on a Doc with Comments and Suggestions, see revision history

 

Google Calendar

• Add a particular calendar from your school / domain to your own calendar (0:19)

• Getting Going with Calendar: calendar views, creating and accessing calendars, creating events

• Nexts Steps with Calendar: create and move Tasks, 

 

Google Classroom

 

Google Maps

• My Maps (formerly Maps Engine Lite) Introduction (2:08): see some of the features available for custom map creation

• Getting Going with My Maps: make a custom map with points, lines, shapes; include videos, images, and links

• Next Steps with My Maps: use a Form to collect information that includes a location, then import that information into a map

 

Google Forms

• Getting Going with Forms: make a Form, send it out, view responses

• Next Steps with Forms: Use a Form to create a quiz, then use the Flubaroo add-on to automatically grade the quiz and give feedback