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Google Drive  is one of the tools we use at BISP. It aims to simplify creating and distributing resources in a paperless way. CLICK HERE FOR THE SELF PACED TRAINING FROM GOOGLE Part of the Google Certified Educator Course

Google Drive- Creating Shortcuts to Files and Folders  This will allow documents and files to be in 2 locations in google drive (shortcuts).  If you change the document / folder in 1 location, the changes will be replicated in the other location(s). Keys: Shift and Z (you can also hold the option key when dragging (this will create a green plus icon to show it is being added, not moved)

Doctopus provides a great add-on for google drive to quickly set up  folders for your classes. It also allows you to easily send assignments that will automatically appear in your students drive folders. It also can add a grading rubric for easy marking. Watch the following video to find out more. This first video is one I created to show you how to create the folders using data from ISAMS 1st video Click here for the 1st VIDEO ,,,, Only accessible if you're signed in to your BISP account 2nd Video 3rd video 4

If you need to produce a flow chart, organisational chart or many other types of diagrams then you will find Lucid Chart very useful. Although simple to use this application produces quite complicated charts. More examples at  https://www.lucidchart.com/community?sort=featured This application integrates with Google Drive or can be used seperately. The school has user licenses available for staff and students, email a request to helpdesk.

Google Docs Tutorial This tutorial is on Google Docs. It covers the basic layout and and functions of Google Docs. It will also go through some of the settings and tools available. First we have the title of the document. This is where we would put our title, though this may seem obvious forgetting to do so will make it harder to find your documents once saved in Google Drive. Use Titles that are clear when you or a collaborator search for the document. This is the Task Bar just underneath the title of the document it has 9 categories of tabs. First of all there is the File tab it is where you will find the Save, New, Open, Bin, Move and Print buttons. The Save button simply saves your document however this is unneeded as Google docs does this automatically for you, the New button opens a new document, Open allows you to open previously saved documents. The bin button allows you to trash the document that you are currently viewing. The move button allows you to...