Auditing “Shared with Me” Google Drive Files
The “Shared with Me” space in Google Drive can feel overwhelmingly chaotic and even anxiety inducing if you have the desire and need to organize everything in Google Drive. Here’s …
Let me get that QR Code for you!
QR Codes are amazing little bridges that connect our physical world to our digital one. It’s so much more practical scanning a QR Code, than typing in a full url …
Generating Unique PIN numbers in Google Sheets
Sometimes a need arises for creating, multiple random unique ids. When I created our Google Forms-based dismissal workflow, I needed to generate unique PIN numbers for every student. Here was …
Google Classroom List View
If you’ve recently been added as a co-teacher to several classes you may be wondering “How am I going to find anything?”. Until Google Classroom develops its own list view, …
Centrally Manage your Google Classrooms from a Google Sheet
Update 08/02/2021: I’ve updated this approach in an all new workshop video. Please check out the video below for links to the latest templates. This workflow replaces the one described …
Reimagining Dismissal Workflows with Google Workspace
Many schools are likely reviewing their dismissal plans for next year ensuring they comply with social distancing guidelines. I’ve been thinking a lot about how our existing communication tools can …
Approval Workflow Add-ons for Everything
Think of all the paper forms you still use in your school or organization that require an approval process. Does it really need to be a paper based system? Think …
Google Forms and Repeating Event Requests
Google Calendar is an incredibly robust and useful planning tool, but it has limitations related to scheduling approved event requests. Many people use Google Forms to collect information about an …
Digital Badges with Google Forms, Sheets and Data Studio
Google Forms, Sheets and Data Studio can be used to manage your micro-credentialing needs. The interactive example below shows how digital badges can be conditionally displayed in a Data Studio …