Create and share calendars

Click on the Calendar link at the top.

Once you create your calendar, you can share with others to view, or give them collaboration rights to add events and tasks.

Here's what you can do with Forms:

• Send out surveys to get information

Note: People you send forms to, do not have to have a Google Account to open and complete. Once they answer the questions, the answers come back to in a spreadsheet, where each question will be one column, with their responses showing up in each column.

Ideas for Adminstration

• Send out surveys to the entire staff (i.e., campus climate, preferences for staff development sessions)
• Create an inventory for school materials.
• Send out form to collect teacher information at the beginning of the year, and update as needed.
• Gather data from teachers on hours for tutoring for extra pay
• Organize school luncheons or staff parties
• Collect headcounts such as how many will attend the Service Awards Banquet.  

Ideas for Teachers

• Send surveys to your students at the beginning of the year to get information.
• Create a quiz for your students.  The results are automatically put into a spreadsheet for your viewing. 
• Committee members can create a survey form to send to the other teachers to get feedback for beginning a special project.

How to Make Forms, Surveys, and Quizzes in Google Docs and the results back in a spreadsheet 

Teacher Tube Video: Make a quiz or online form with Google Docs

Directions are good for both creating a quiz or creating a survey- there is no difference. You can copy questions from another source and

paste them into the fields or type them in yourself.

How to automatically grade quizzes created with Google Forms

Here's what you can do with Documents:

• Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
• Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
• Invite others (by e-mail address) to edit or view your documents and spreadsheets.
• Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
• View your documents' and spreadsheets' revision history and roll back to any version.
• Publish documents online to the world, as Web pages or post documents to your blog.
• Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
• Email your documents out as attachments.

Ideas  For Adminstration

• Upload weekly staff notes and calendar (if you use Word to create your calendar.)  You could also use Google Calendar to create and share.
• Post important documents such as the Campus Plan so that your staff can view these from anywere- only give teachers viewing rights.
• Post all school forms so the staff can open and print from anywhere (i.e., Request to be off or to leave campus early)  
• Complete a committee project, where everyone can work from home on the same document (CIC,  science, math, bilingual committees)
• Break up a research project or report into parts.  Each collaborative member types in their information on the designated page.
• Complete an online book study in one document, where everyone can type their comments for others to see and respond to.
• Collaborate on special events such as Math, Science and Literacy nights in one document. So much work can be done before and in between your face to face meetings if teachers are able to brainstorm their ideas into one document that all can view and add to ahead of time.

Ideas for Teachers

• Collaborate on a project together
• Work  collaboratively to write beginning of the year documents such as class rules, student supply lists or schedules.
• Create and share lesson plans as a team. 
• Share quizzes or tests that they have generated with other grade level teachers or teachers from another school.
• Teachers can create a substitute lesson plan from home and receive input from colleagues 
• Create a team calendar using Word or you can also use Google Calendar feature to create and share with your team.
• Create a document to store bookmarks for a special unit. 
• Create unit questions for your students. Share with your students. They can work as teams to find and type in the answers.
• Create collaboative documents where your students could work on a writing or research project together in groups. 
• Students can journal about science experiments they complete in class. They can respond to each others comments.
• *Have your students type their english papers in a Google Document. (They will all have email accounts next year to create a Google account.)
  Students share their document with a peer editing buddy and with you.  Their partner can add comments and possible revisions in one
  color, and you can type your comments in another color.  The student gets this feedback next time they open their document to help
  them in the writing process, and you don't have to carry a bunch of papers home to edit and grade.

• Teacher Tube Video: Make a quiz or online form with Google Docs

• This video shows how to take questions from a Word Document and paste them into a form. The finished form is shared with your

• students.  You can email it to them, or view the published form and copy and paste the url address on your teacher website for students.

• They simply click on the link and complete the quiz. The results are fed into a spreadsheet that only you can see (unless, of coarse, you share it.) You will have to grade it yourself, unless you enter a formula to check right and wrong answers.

• You can also use a template right from Google Docs. There are 446 templates from which to choose.

  In the main Google Docs Home page, click on New>From Template

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Here's what you can do with spreadsheets:

• Import and export of .xls, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data (and export functionality for .pdf and html).
• Enjoy intuitive navigation and editing, like any traditional document or spreadsheet.
• Use formatting and formula editing in spreadsheets so you can calculate results and make your data look the way you want it.
• Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet.
• Embed a spreadsheet, or a piece of a spreadsheet, in your blog or website.

Ideas for Administration:

• Create an inventory where teachers can enter tag numbers, number of items and so forth.
• Create or upload a spreadsheet with school data such as benchmark results or TAKS scores (only give viewing, not editing rights.)
   

Ideas for Teachers:

• Create a spreadsheet for subject content study. For example, create a spreadsheet that has a list of traits that can be inherited. Share with your students. They put a number "1" in the cell next to any inherited trait that they have. All students can see at the same time which inherited traits are most common.  Then they can each turn this data into a chart and analyze the data.

Google Docs Spreadsheets Basics

Here's what you can do with presentations:

• Share and edit presentations with your friends and coworkers.
• Import existing presentations in .ppt and .pps file types.
• Export your presentations using the Save as PDF and Save as PPT features from the File menu.
• Edit your presentations using our simple WYSIWYG editor.
• Insert images and videos, and format your slides to fit your preferences.
• Allow real-time viewing of presentations, online, from separate remote locations.
• Publish and embed your presentations in a website, allowing access to a wide audience.

Ideas for Administrators

• Post training presentations for those who are absent from staff meetings, or for others to be able to go back and review the information.
• Upload or create presentations that teachers can watch on their own, cutting down time spent meeting together.

Ideas for teachers

• Teachers can work collaboratively on a  grade level PowerPoint for the beginning of school or for any subject content.
• Add  Webquests, scavenger hunts, jeopardy games on PowerPoint, etc., can be generated by several teachers and then shared.

You can also use a template right from Google Docs.

In the main Google Docs Home page, click on New>From Template

Create a basic Google Presentation slideshow

How to embed a Google Presentation into a website
Your viewers will actually see the video player once they click on the link. You can collaborate online with them to discuss.