The EdTech Connection

Making the connection between ed and tech: 8 Mar 2021

Google Meet: End for All and Custom Backgrounds

Even more updates from Google Meet!

Last week, I shared that meeting hosts now have the option to mute all participants (and still to come, the ability to prevent participants from unmuting). This week, I have two additional updates that you will hopefully enjoy.

End for All: Now when you leave a meeting that you created, you have the option to just leave the meeting or to end the meeting for everyone. This means that everyone in the meeting will also be removed. This makes it easy to end meetings without worrying about students hanging around after the fact (remember to turn off "Quick Access" before leaving).
Custom Background: In Meet, you can also now upload your own custom background. On Friday, I turned this on for all FCS teachers (currently not available for students), so if you have a favorite place that you want to use, it's easy to pretend that you're there! In my background, I am at Anna Maria Island, which is one of my absolute favorite places!.

Chrome Extensions for FCS Teachers

Remember that you need to log in to Chrome for these to work best!

G Suite Add-ons for FCS Teachers

All Add-ons for Docs, Slides, Sheets, & Forms must meet student privacy regulations.

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Copy/ Paste Notice in GoFormative

GoFormative is one of my most used tools, especially for blended or online learning. The variety of options it includes is amazing and I especially love being able to record audio for my students AND ask my students to record audio as part of their response. As a premium user, I have SO MANY options that I can easily have everything that I want my students to do for an entire lesson in just ONE Formative.

A recent update is that now when students copy and paste their answer from somewhere else, it tells you exactly which parts were copy/pasted. For me, this is even more helpful because some students might just copy and accented character since they don't know how to use the International Keyboard while others might say that is what they did when they really copied the entire answer from Google Translate. Check it out below!

Answers to the Google Questions You Were Afraid to Ask (REPEAT)

What's a Google question you have but have been afraid to ask? Help me put together a presentation by asking your question(s) on this form! While email addresses are collected, it's only so that your response can be emailed to you and I can send the presentation to you when it's done! No question is too basic or too advanced - help me help you by sending them all to me.

https://bit.ly/mmebgoogleqs

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