Flubaroo is an Add-On for Google Sheets spreadsheets that will automatically grade student responses to formative assessment submitted through a Google Form.  Flubaroo has the option to email students their results. Since not all schools have email turned on for students, Flubaroo has another option. Flubaroo recently added the feature to create a summary report on a Google Doc that is shared with the student through Google Drive. Click here to view the Flubaroo blog post.

To learn more about this and how to create an assessment in Google Forms, visit Alice Keeler's blog. 

Self Paced Google Training

If you are looking to get some Google Training, but need to do it on your own time I encourage you to check out the LHRIC MLP catalog.  At the bottom of the list you will see listing for self-paced courses in: Google Doc, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides  as well as Digital Citizenship, Smart Notebook and Wiki.

Just go to www.mylearningplan.com to see what course are offered (plus they are free!)

A playlist of video tech tips

If you aren't reading Richard Byrne's Free Tech for Teachers Blog, be sure to add it to your feed. He recently put together a collection of some of the videos he has made into a YouTube playlist. There are a lot of great videos for a variety of tech tools. Take a look at it and see what new thing you can try. Click on the link below to see a playlist of videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLtx-qUNKJwDwazAWE7UaLATKaV0gcpNYv&v=W4eKfe-fNYs

Make Groups with just a few clicks

Group Maker is a super simple add on you can use in Google Sheets.  Once you have created the template (by copying and pasting your roster into the document given), you can use it as many times as you want to create groups of any size.  To see more details you can visit:
http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/10/19/group-maker-automatically-make-groups-with-google-sheets/

Creating Google Contact Groups for sharing files

Some of you may frequently be sharing Google Drive files with a number of people (such as your department, grade level or group of students).  One option (there are many) is to create a Google Contact Group.  Once you have this created, any time you are in Google you can type in the group's name and it will populate the field with all of the addresses of the people in the group.  Here is a quick video to show you how to do this.