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Comment by Susan McClements on August 15, 2012 at 11:58am

response to Groups in Google

Does she have all the students emails in her Google account and she is logged on to her school Google account. She can't be on her personal Gmail account.  She need to own the group. She can create it in her Google mail if all the students appear in her contacts.  She creates a group and then adds all the students. Then in Google Docs when she has a Doc or even collection (folder) to share, You click the Share button on the right side of the screen. A Sharing Settings dialog box appears. at the bottom there is a box label Add people to share, you can just type the name of the group and it will appear.

Hope this helps
Susan McClements
Technology Facilitator
South Bend New Tech
South Bend, IN


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On Aug 15, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Classroom 2.0 wrote:

A message from Klista Lawyer-Reynolds to all members of Google Apps for Education on Classroom 2.0!

Someone please help me out! My district is starting to use Google Apps, but we haven't completely reached the point of no return.  I have a teacher who's been using Docs for a few months and she wanted to make a group for all of her students so it would be easier to share.  I set up a group for her, added her to it, and shared a document with her as a test.  She can't see the document.
To troubleshoot, I've tried about everything - delete the group, make a new one, delete the teacher account, make a new one, unshare, reshare, change the permissions, take out funky characters... What am I missing? We do not have the mail feature turned on yet, but I've had other teachers use groups with no problems. When I look at her account, it shows that she's a member of the group I created for her.
Please help!

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Comment by Mark Tozer on May 24, 2012 at 9:40pm

I believe I'm asking this question in the right place...

I've been promoting to other teachers in my school all year the benefits of using google docs and google calendar for collaboration.  I've done my lesson plans all year on docs, made calendars for myself, school, district, and mapping my grade level standards.  Other teachers have not caught on at all.  With a couple like-minded teachers coming into our school next year, a new principal who is supportive of the idea, I am trying to make plans for next year.  Here is where I've run into a new problem.  I've been using the regular docs, not Google for Ed.  When I've asked about using it as a testbed in my school for my district, I have been met with some resistance from central admin.  Docs were available to me all year until our network was "updated" this past March.  Gmail has always been blocked.  What is a good way to approach this? I don't really understand the cost to the district (we live in a big city... over 40 schools.)  I want my next communication with downtown to be clear and direct, pointing to how I'd like to use it personally (lessons, calendars, curriculum mapping), as a collaboration tool, and possibly, and perhaps most importantly, as a tool to collect immediate feedback from students on a regular basis through FORMS designed to go to spreadsheets, in order to sort students quickly into groups to better facilitate "differentiation* - perhaps even integrate grade-level and even cross-grade level classes.

Questions:

1.) I believe this is a "battle" worth fighting so I'm looking for advice, but how can I address the (I'm sure) typical worries of administrators?

2.) How (much) / what does the district pay?  With time and upkeep... or is it all or nothing as a district?  What exactly is free for teachers and students?  I've been using pieces through our current network, but want all features, including youtube for ed.

3.) What would you say if you were in my shoes?  (Besides, 'Hey, these are not my shoes' :-)

4.) Am I in the right space here?  Should I start a Discussion thread?  (I need to learn more about the etiquette of Classroom 2.0.)

Thanks!!!

Comment by Maria Sommer on April 13, 2012 at 12:08pm

We had an issue this week uploading pictures to GoogleDocs. We had the students take a picture of themselves with some fungus (7th Grade Science), with the intention of having them insert it in a GoogleDoc. We found on the fly that if the picture was over 1.0 MB, it would not insert into their doc. So, after a flood of frantic emails from students and parents, we suggested they do the project on MSWord instead. Other than reducing the file size of the pictures, does anyone have suggestions on how we can make this work better next time around? 

Comment by Zee Ann Poerio on April 1, 2012 at 4:09pm

You can connect all your Google Docs with your Edmodo library.  I had all the students do this last week.  Log on to GA and Edmodo.  In Edmodo click on the library tab.  On the left, click on the Google Docs then click on Connect with Google Docs and then ACCEPT.  All the files from Google Docs will copy into the Library, so it makes it easy to attach their documents to assignments or posts.  When you update a document in google, refresh the page in edmodo and everything will be current.  GREAT FEATURE!  If you have more than one google account (like one personal one and one for school, make sure you are the connecting the one you want for school.  You can also disconnect the account if you need to do so.)

Comment by Maria Sommer on March 24, 2012 at 6:41am

I would love to hear more about the Chromebooks - 

I use Google Apps much the same as Katie. I'm investigating how GA integrates with edmodo. 

Comment by teresa.mackinnon on March 24, 2012 at 6:36am

i have recently started using google chromebooks with google apps for education in higher education and would be pleased to hear from others doing similar thing.

Comment by Smita Kolhatkar on January 16, 2012 at 9:12pm

Hi Katie,

With 5th grade I use Google apps as follows:

1. Research on topics.

2. Sharing and collaborating documents - students amongst themselves

3. Creating sites and ePortfolios

4. Creating project directions and sharing with students

5. Google drawings when they want to draw online to illustrate their writing/poems

6. Google bookmarks to bookmark important sites.

7. Gmail for communication.

Will update as I think of more.

Comment by Katie Lyon on January 16, 2012 at 7:48pm

What are some ways teachers are using Google Docs with grades 4-5?  I use it often for students to work on websites on certain topics of research, essays and other odds and ends.  Anything great ideas out there?  :-)

Comment by Roger Grant on December 22, 2011 at 11:48am

Maria, you are right. It works if groups are made within contacts (what anyone else would call a distribution list). However Google has another Group which is more of a discussion group. If you share with that group name it will not automatically appear in the members docs list. 

Comment by Maria Sommer on December 21, 2011 at 6:34am

Roger, 

I am pretty sure when you create the group from within the Contact Picker, and use that group to share, it shows up in the students' docs home page. At least, it did yesterday. It works the way you described when you create the group from within the "Contact" tab. Interestingly enough, I can ADD contacts to the group from the group created in the "Contact Picker" from the Contacts tab. You are right, it needs more work on Google's end.

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