Monday, October 25, 2021

New Google Tools & Features!

 There are some new tools and features on Google for Education that are available NOW!


Google Classroom/Google Meet

  • Students can't join if the host isn't on the meeting
  • Only students in Google Classroom can join the meeting
  • Anyone outside the class roster has to ask to join
  • Co-teachers in Google Classroom are automatically made co-hosts of the meeting
  • Pin or unpin presentation or other tiles for display
  • Turn off all videos at once

Google Docs
  • Checklist with clickable checkboxes
  • Smart Chips
    • Use the @ button to tag a person, attach a file, a calendar event or a date
    • If you add a calendar event with the smart chips, it will give you the option to create a meeting note template and also add the note template document to the calendar event!


Tasks
  • To-Do Lists 
  • Show on the side of Gmail
  • Add a date to show in Google Calendar - make sure the Tasks calendar is enabled


Hopefully these amazing features will help save you time and effort! 

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