Entries tagged with Google

Google Tips: Google Classroom Fall 2018 Updates

Google’s ever evolving ecosystem results in minor and sometimes major changes to their products. This year, Google invested in the features of Google Classroom, adding several major feature changes to the web app. This article focuses on the Fall 2018 changes. Be sure to read the overview and January 2017 updates articles if you have […]

Google Tips: An Updated Overview of Google Classroom Features (2017)

Google Classroom is a learning management system (LMS) designed by Google and implemented in Google’s G Suite for Education. This highlights new features added or changed from the previous published article. If you have not read the first article, it provides an overview of all the features of Google Classroom. This article builds onto those […]

Google Tips: An Overview of Google Classroom Features (2015)

Google classroom is a learning management system (LMS) designed by Google and implemented through Google Apps for Education. Learn the various features within Google Classroom including the new 2015 updates such as Discussion Questions and Calendar integration. Read on to find out more. 

Google Tips: 10 Tips for using Google Drive and Improve Productivity

Whether your company has moved to Google Apps for Work or you school has started using Google Apps for Education, here are ten tips and tricks to use Google Drive more effectively and improve productivity. Video Tutorial Written Tutorial Shared Google Drive files are also found in Google Drive’s “Shared with me” Oftentimes, new users […]

Google Tips: How to Share Files in Google Drive with Large Groups

Sharing within Google Apps was primarily designed for sharing with a small number of users. However, as Google Apps has expanded into schools and business, the sharing features cannot easily handle large groups of users by default. To accommodate sharing and collaborating with large groups of users, apps such as Google Contacts and Google Groups […]

Google Tips: How to Install the NEW Google Drive Plugin for Microsoft Office

Early this week, Google released a new plugin that will change how users use Google Drive with Microsoft Office. This plugin was released quietly without any fanfare, but allows users to access and edit their Microsoft Office files stored in Google Drive from within Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. Read on to […]

Google Tips: Sharing Permissions and How to Share Google Drive Folders

Google Drive has both revolutionized and complicated how we manage our files. Sharing folders allows us to give other access to several files instantaneously. However, sharing folders add additional complexity to how file permissions work. Read on and find out three concepts to consider to share Google Drive folders correctly.