Recommended Add-ons and Extensions for teachers and students

1. Do More with GAFE
Google Add-Ons & Extensions
Tiny URL: goo.gl/y6mzzP

2. Carol Persin
Technology Integration Specialist for
Keystone Oaks SD
Twitter @theitpersin
or www.theitpersin.weebly.com
Co-authored by: Alison Perry, Duquesne Class of 2018

3. Tweet the Session
with #TRETC2015
TweetBeam

4. What is your experience
using Google Apps for
Education?
Poll Everywhere
(or see next slide)

5. Add-On vs. Extension
● Manipulate Google
Docs, Sheets &
Forms
● Found in app under
“Add-ons”
● Shown on right side
of apps
● Manipulates the
Chrome Browser
● Found in store
● Appear next to
address bar in
browser
Add-On Extension

6. How to Add an Add-On

7. Add-Ons: Google Docs
✘ Subject - foreign language
✘ Description - Variety of
languages, letters with accent
marks easily accessible
Easy Accents - Link Here

8. Add-Ons: Google Docs
✘ Subject - S.S. or Science (reading
articles)
✘ Description - 4 colors to
highlight different portions of
text. Export highlights into a new
document
Texthelp Study Skills - Link Here

9. Add-Ons: Google Docs
✘ Subject - writing
✘ Description - Illustrates
overused words by making them
larger in a word cloud
Tag Cloud Generator- Link Here

10. Add-Ons: Google Docs
✘ Subject - any
✘ Description - Use with a quiz
that is already typed in docs to
quickly copy/paste and
generate a form
Doc to Form - Link Here

11. Other Add-Ons for Google Docs
Name Description Link
EasyBib
Generates bibliography from
sources in APA or MLA
Click Here
Rhyme Finder Select a word & find a rhyme Click Here
Open Clipart Find clip-art images Click Here

12. Add-Ons: Google Sheets
✘ Subject - any
✘ Description - Grade
the sheet results of a
Google Form
Flubaroo- Link Here

13. Add-Ons: Google Sheets
✘ Subject - Borrowing Materials/
Scheduling rooms
✘ Description - Create a new
Google Sheet to sign out items/
rooms for class periods
Sample Lab Sheet
Lab Scheduler- Link Here

14. Add-Ons: Google Sheets
✘ Subject - any
✘ Description - Just for fun… Google
Sheets only has 6 fonts by default.
This add-on expands the list to 35
More Fonts- Link Here

15. Add-Ons: Google Sheets
✘ Subject - any
✘ Description - Setup responses
from a form/excel spreadsheet to
trigger automated mail-merge e-
mails
Form Mule- Link Here

16. Other Add-Ons for Google Sheets
Add Rows &
Columns
Add multiple rows &
columns at once
Click Here
Remove Blank
Rows
Eliminates blank rows
from a spreadsheet
Click Here
Split Names
Split apart names all
in one cell
Click Here

17. Name Description Link
Choice
Eliminator
Removes a multiple choice
option after form is submitted
Click Here
Form Limiter Turn off a form after a # of
responses or date/time
Click Here
Add-Ons: Google Forms

18. Name Description Link
Form Values Create lists of commonly used
multiple choice items
Click Here
Form Publisher Mail merge feature that
generates a Doc or Sheet with
Form response Data
Click Here
More Add-Ons: Google Forms

19. Add Ons - Google Docs/Sheets/forms
✘ Subject - math
✘ Description - choose from a
variety of functions in order to
write mathematical equations
or graphs
g(math) - Link Here - Docs
Link Here - Sheets
Link Here - Forms

20. How to Add an Extension

21. Extension -
Extensity
✘ Tool - Manage Extensions
✘ Description - Toggle extensions
off and on
Link Here

22. Extension - Snag-
It
✘ Tool - Screen Capture/
Screenshot
✘ Description - Easily take a
screenshot
Link Here

23. Extension -
Screencastify
✘ Tool - Screen Video Recorder
✘ Description - Students can
record the screen, the webcam,
or both using this application
Link Here

24. Extension - The QR
Code Extension
✘ Tool - QR Code Tool
✘ Description - Generates a QR
code for a site. Also turns
webcam into a QR code reader
Link Here

25. Extension -
goo.gl Web Shortener
✘ Tool - Website Management
✘ Description - Shortens a
web address & generates
QR Code
Link Here

26. Extension -
Share to Classroom
✘ Tool - Manage sites
✘ Description - Share websites to
students in your Google
Classroom
Link Here

27. Extension -
OneTab
✘ Tool - Manage sites
✘ Description - Save all of
your open tabs into one list
Link Here

28. Extension -
Move It
✘ Tool - Inactivity Timer
✘ Description - Get your
class up and moving in
intervals of every 5-55
minutes
Link Here

29. Extensions - Turn off the Lights/DF YouTube
✘ Tool - YouTube/Video
Viewer
✘ Description - Use both to
remove suggested videos
and dim the background
light
Link Here - Turn Off
Link Here - DF YouTube

30. Extensions - Clearly ✘ Tool - Reading Tool
✘ Description - Cleans up
article for ease of readingLink Here

31. Extensions - AdBlock Plus ✘ Tool - Ad Blocker
✘ Description -
Removes ads from
websites
Link Here - Adblock Plus
Before
After

32. Link for free 12
month subscription
http://rw.texthelp.
com/drive/home/Regist
erTeacher
Extension - Read & Write
Free Features:
Text to Speech &
Translation for
Students
Link Here

33. Link Here - Doctopus
Link Here - Goobric
Add-On + Extension =
Doctopus + Goobric
Description: “Ingest” a
Google Classroom
assignment with Doctopus
and attach an electronic
rubric (goobric)

34. Doctopus + Goobric - cont.
Prepare: Give a classroom assignment,
create a rubric following the template,
“install” Doctopus & Goobric, Open an
empty Google Sheet
1. Run Doctopus on the sheet. Select
classroom & assignment
2. Click “attach a Goobric”
3. Use links in sheet to grade each
assignment using the Goobric
extension
Goobric
FAQs

35. Administering 3rd Party Apps Across a Domain
Login to
Google
Admin
Console
Apps
Marketplace
Apps
OR
Device
Management
Chrome
Management
App
Management
For Add-Ons
For Extensions

36. Non Extensions/Add-Ons
Assistive Tech:
✘ Google Docs - Tools - Voice Typing
✘ Google Docs - Tools - Define
For ESL (or parents):
✘ Google Docs - Tools - Translate

37. thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
@theitpersin
www.theitpersin.weebly.com

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39. Tech Tools Used
✘ Goo.gl Extension URL Shortener
✘ TweetBeam
✘ Poll Everywhere
✘ Snag-It Extension
✘ makeagif.com
✘ Audio Recorder App
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