Google has a range of apps. In these pages, we hope to highlight some of them and suggest how they could be used to enchance/ support you teachng and learning.
Google Drive
Provides users with 30GB of online storage meaning you no longer need to rely on USB keys. It also allows you to create documents, spreadsheets and presentatons all in the broswer, wihch save automatically as you type.
Those files can then be shared with other users and you can both work on the same document simultaneously. This provides a number of opportunities when it come to teaching and learning.
The ability to offer formative feedback on assignments through the duration of its creation. It also make peer to peer feedback very easy to organise.
Google Forms
Allows you to easily create a survey; there are a range of question types available to choose from including: Multiple choice, Checkboxes, Choose from a list.
All responses from the survey are automatically collated into a spreadsheet, and with a click of a mouse you can get a visual summary of responses in the form of a bar chart.
This can be a great way to check learnng at the end of lesson, or as a way to check prior learning , or just capturing student voice feedback.