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Using Doctopus

A program to manage the flow of digital work.

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Overview

- Doctopus is a program that runs on Google Drive that assists in managing the flow of digital work

-Benefits

  • Eliminates naming and sharing work confusion
  • Blocks students from editing or working on project after due date.
  • Quick view allows you to see who has completed assignment, when last edit was made.

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Eliminates Student confusion with naming work and sharing it with teacher.

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Organizes digital work into easy to manage folders and lists.

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Quick view lets you see if assignment is completed.

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Let’s get started!

1. You will need to create a document that you would like to share with students.

  • TIP: Keep track of that document by placing it in a Unit folder.

2. Open a blank spreadsheet

  • TIP: Call this a name similar to assignment.

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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”

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Launch Doctopus!

Click on your Doctopus Tab

Launch Doctopus program.

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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.

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Let’s create our Roster.

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Select “on this sheet”

      • Doctopus will create three columns, student first name, student last name, and student email address
      • Give the roster a unique name.

      • You will then have to copy the names from your Master Roster you created into the spreadsheet

You won’t have to do this step again!!!!

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Create Class Folders???

  • Checkmark the box that says “This roster includes folders I’d like to deliver this assignment to.”
    • Clicking this will send the document directly to the student’s individual assignment folder

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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)

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Choose the folder & document

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Name it!

This is where YOU

name how the kids

will save it.

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Goobric

Use a rubric right in the document.

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How to use Goobric

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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.

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Use Doctopus and Goobric with Classroom