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How can I use Google Docs in the classroom?

• Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc.

• Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet.

• Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths.

• Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students' timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet.

• Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share.

• Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document.

• Docs for Teachers - great ideas from Google Docs Help

• Check out the Google Docs Community videos - http://www.youtube.com/GoogleDocsCommunity

How do I get started?

To create an account:

1. Go to http://docs.google.com

2. Click Get Started to create an account, or, sign in using your google account

To create a doc:

1. From your Docs list, select "New" from the upper-left corner.

2. Select which kind of doc you'd like to create: document, spreadsheet or presentation.

3. A brand new version of the doc type selected will open for you, ready to be edited and shared.

To share a doc:

1. From within the document you'd like to share, click the "Share" tab, in the upper-right corner*.

2. Enter the email addresses of whomever you'd like to add and select the button next to "As collaborators:" or "As viewers", depending on what kind of access you'd like them to have.

3. Click "Invite collaborators."

4. If you'd like, in the window that appears send an email to your collaborators explaining a little about the doc. Whether or not you send this email, your doc is now shared.

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