Google+Tools

[|The Comprehensive Google Drive Guide]for Teachers and Students a treasure trove of practical guides on how to use each tool in Google Drive.

[|GCFLearnFree.org] offers more than 90 tutorials, including more than 1,000 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free.

[|Google Drive and Docs tips]: 20 expert tricks and shortcuts

[|Google News Newspaper archive]—allows searches for a specific newspaper, article titles, or topic.

[|Google tutorials]—39 how-to videos for Google

[|OneTab]converts all of your tabs into a list, thereby reducing the number of tabs open in Google Chrome.


 * Google Add-Ons **

__** Docs **__ [|Easy Accents]provides a virtual keyboard that enables students to quickly insert the letters and accents found in French, German, Spanish, Māori, and Sámi.

[|EasyBib Bibliography Creator]: How to Create a Bibliography in Google Documents

[|g(Math)] allows you to easily insert graphs and equations into your Google Documents. The Add-on opens in the right side of your document and from there you can insert the parameters of your graph and or generate equations.

[|The MindMeister]add-on for Google Docs turns any bullet-point list into a mind map, and automatically inserts it into your document. The first point of your list becomes the root topic of the mind map, while the rest of the first-level points are turned into first-level topics. Second-level points are turned into the equivalent second-level topics and so on. This is a great way to visualize lists and quickly add a graphical overview to your documents.

[|Speech Recognition]is a free Google Docs Add-on that will allow to you speak to create a document. Get the Add-on by selecting "Get Add-ons" from the Add-ons drop-down menu in a Google Document.

[|Tag Cloud Generator Add-on] will create a word cloud in the right-hand margin of any of your Google Documents that contain more than one hundred words.

__**Forms **__

[|CheckItOut]is used for checking in and out items. This add-on will create a question set or multiple sets. One question is for items that are IN and another for items that are OUT. Questions can be Multiple-Choice, List or Checkboxes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|FormLimiter] allows you to set a time for a form to automatically stop accepting responses. You can also use FormLimiter to set a limit on number of responses a form will accept.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Form Notifications]allows you to create triggers for emails to be sent to you when submissions are made through one of your forms. You can set the Add-on to send you an email alert after a specified number of responses are received or after every submission. The Add-on also allows you to have an email sent to Form respondents after they have completed your Form.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|g(Math)] is a also available as a Google Forms Add-on that allows you to insert graphs and mathematical expressions into your Google Forms.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sheets **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Add Reminders] will set-up your spreadsheet so that you simply enter reminder messages and email addresses then specify a date on which you want your reminders sent. The Add Reminders Add-on allows you to send the same reminder to everyone in your email list or you can send individualized reminders to everyone in your email list.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Flubaroo] enables teachers to grade all at once all of their students' responses to a quiz created in Google Forms. The autograde option in Flubaroo allows you to have students automatically receive their scores after submitting their responses to a quiz you created in Google Forms. The autograde feature will send students an email with their scores and the answer key (you can exclude the answer key). With autograding enabled students do not have to wait for you to run the grading process or wait for you to send emails.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Lab Scheduler] is a unique resource scheduler designed for schools, that uses periods or blocks to schedule rather than times.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Save As Doc]enables you to select a series of adjacent cells and turn them into an easy to read Google Document.