Using Doctopus
A program to manage the flow of digital work.
Overview
- Doctopus is a program that runs on Google Drive that assists in managing the flow of digital work
-Benefits
Eliminates Student confusion with naming work and sharing it with teacher.
Organizes digital work into easy to manage folders and lists.
Quick view lets you see if assignment is completed.
Let’s get started!
1. You will need to create a document that you would like to share with students.
2. Open a blank spreadsheet
Download Doctopus onto Spreadsheet
While in the sheet,
Select Add-ons
Get add-ons
Search for - Doctopus
When you see it, click on “+Free”
After it installs, select Doctopus
tab on your screen, click “Launch”
Launch Doctopus!
Click on your Doctopus Tab
Launch Doctopus program.
You now have Doctopus!
You have successfully installed Doctopus. You will NOT have to repeat this step again.
Any time you wish to send students a document simply open a new sheet and launch Doctopus. You will NOT have to re-load, it will appear always in your Add-on Menu.
Open up Doctopus, set up.
Let’s create our Roster.
Select “on this sheet”
You won’t have to do this step again!!!!
Create Class Folders???
Set up how you want to share
There are multiple options for sharing documents.
- Individual - all the same
(This sends every student the same document but
allows them to edit their own copy)
- Project Groups
(This creates one shared copy of a document for each
group designated on your roster)
Choose the folder & document
Name it!
This is where YOU
name how the kids
will save it.
Goobric
Use a rubric right in the document.
How to use Goobric
What does Doctopus do that Classroom doesn’t?
1) It gives you full visibility and editing rights on student Docs (Classroom only gives the teacher ownership when the assignment is “turned in”).
2) Full access to the student class folders (Classroom doesn’t give you this), which means the ability to see a “slice” of work in Drive in a portfolio like view.
3) Project group mode allows you to cluster kids and pre-share them on starter docs. Classroom doesn’t do this.
4) Goobric allows for rich, rubric-based grading right in the browser, with feedback instantly emailed to students, pasted to Doc. Classroom limits you to simple letter or numeric grades.
5) Doctopus allows for co-teachers to share grading and visibility on student work, and to use shared rosters.
Use Doctopus and Goobric with Classroom