Best Hot Tips

The weather is cooler, but the tips are still HOT!

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Ashley’s Tip

Teri’s Tip

Rachel’s Tip

Dawn’s Tip

Your Tips

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The PD purpose is to review the most requested tips.

Ways to Organize Google Classroom

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Chrome Extensions for students and teachers

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Pre-Foldering your email to better control your inbox

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Ways to give quick feedback in google classroom.

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Share a tip that has been helpful to you.

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Introduction

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Each coach will share a Top Tip, then we will ask you to unmute yourself and share a helpful tip you have learned this fall from a colleague or a Hot Tip

Ashley’s Tip

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Ways to Organize Google Classroom

Strategy for Organization: Use Topics

1. Add a topic with the “Create” button on the classwork page
2. Pick an organizational structure
1. Sort by week
2. Sort by unit
3. Sort by subject or topic
4. Sort by file type (assignments v. notes)
3. Click and drag things on your classwork page under any topic

More Strategies for Organization

1. Need more in depth topics? Use subtopics.
2. Use Emojis ‼️
1. Control + Command + Spacebar (Macs)
3. Use a Number System
4. Consistency is key!

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Resources

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From Hot Tips 5.0, this 4th grade teacher shows her organization method. (video)

Ditch That Textbook explains 3 easy strategies to organize your Google Classroom. (article)

Teri’s Tip

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Chrome Extensions

Rachel’s Tip

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Pre-foldering your email to better control your inbox

The Challenge

The Solution

How to deal with the onslaught of emails being sent to you by:

Google Classroom

Parents

Students

Administration

Instructional Coaches :-)

Setup your email to automatically send certain emails into a folder and skip your traditional inbox. This way you can check the folders when you want to, and can see important emails more easily

Video Directions

From Hot Tips 6.0, here is a video on how to do this.

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Please note that you need to be in the web browser version of gmail to do this. Go to gmail.com and log into your geneseoschools.org account from there

Screenshot Directions

Click on Settings

Click on See all settings

Click on Labels (which is what Google calls folders)

Screenshot Directions

Scroll down and click on Create new Label

Name your folder/label then click Create

Click on Filters and Blocked Addresses

Screenshot Directions

You can send all emails from a person or group into a folder. Or filter by subject for Google Classroom. Then click Create filter.

Click on Skip the Inbox and Apply the Label

What will happen?

You will see the number of emails that meet that criteria in the folder on the left in the mail program on your desktop (near) or the web browser for gmail (far) and they will NOT go to your inbox

Dawn’s Tip

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Feedback In Classroom

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Problem: Feedback Time

Giving proper student feedback using a remote learning platform can prove to be very time consuming. However, it is extremely beneficial to students.

Quick Student Solutions:

Using both Mote and the comment bank feature within classroom or shared documents.

MOTE: Google Extension

Allows you to give recorded verbal Feedback on any type�Of Google Documents and within classroom.

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1. Add the Mote Extension to your Chrome browser.�
1. Your students do not need to have this�extension added to hear the comment.

Step 1

MOTE: Google Extension

Step 2

• Allows the teacher to track if a student has listened to the feedback.
• Click on the extension icon and select My Activity

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Cool Feature

1. When working on a google document, highlight text to add a comment.
2. Select the Mote icon and simply say your comment.

Feedback Bank

Allows you to store commonly feedback phrases and easily insert them in an assignment.

1. When working on any type of google document in

Classroom, first highlight text you want to comment on.

• Add your comment by
1. Right Clicking
2. Or Using the Mac Shortcut: Command/Option/M
1. If first time adding comment to bank
1. Click three vertical dots and then add to comment bank
2. If you want to add a comment already in bank
• Start with # and begin typing. �This will search your bank

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• Video Directions Link

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Parent Communication

Guardian Summaries

What’s included in an email summary?

• Missing work—Work not turned in when the summary was sent.
• Upcoming work—Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails).
• Class activity—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers.

Steps to implement in classroom

1. Go to Class Settings
2. Scroll and Select Guardian Summaries
3. Select Add class or all classes
1. Emails will be sent to those that have not been included in previous classroom summary invites.

Video for the teachers Written info for the teachers Video for the guardians

Your Tips

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Help us in sharing out your favorite tips from a colleague or the Hot Tips!

EOC Information

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Anytime you attend a PD session led by a coach this year (in person or via Google meet), we will be keeping sign in sheets and/or taking screenshots of those in the Google Meet session. We will give one EOC at the end of each semester to everyone that shows how many hours you attended, so you can input one item in ELIS rather than many.

Thanks for attending!

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