Last week I talked about switching a Google Drive document from /edit to /preview and back. The process is cumbersome, requiring you to edit the address of the document. To help with switching, I wrote a little Javascript code that will switch between the modes when clicked. Don’t fear the bookmarklet A bookmarklet is a…
Google offers all sorts of neat little tricks with the URL of a Google Drive document, and the /preview trick is one of the best. I’m going to demonstrate the /preview trick with Google Slides, since that’s when it’s most noticeable. For my classes, I have prepared lessons in Google Slides. This is a pretty…
Source: SAS Writing Reviser – G Suite Marketplace The SAS Writing Reviser is a suite of tools to help you or your students identify weaknesses in their writing. Unlike conventional grammar checkers, SAS Writing Reviser has the user select the component of writing, such as passive voice, in the writing to be analyzed. Users of…
Source: Table Formatter – Google Docs add-on Sure, you could set the background color and text color yourself, but the computer is supposed to make things easier! The Table Formatter add-on gives you the ability to style your tables, making them stand out like never before.
Source: Change Case – Google Docs add-on When I stumbled upon this add-on, I was thinking, “Doesn’t Google Docs offer a change case tool?”. Apparently, it doesn’t, but with this add-on, it can! This is great to use when you are trying to CORRECT SOMEONE WHO HAS DECIDED TO YELL THROUGHOUT YOUR DOCUMENT.
Draftback – Chrome Web Store I learned about this Google Docs addon from Reddit, but I haven’t had much luck in getting it to work correctly. I’m sharing it so maybe you’ll have better luck and can share with me what you did. Draftback gives you a visual playback of a document’s version history. It…
Source: MindMeister – Google Docs add-on The add-on is not a replacement for full mind mapping software, but for sprucing up a report, it will do fine. The add-on takes a bullet-ed list and creates a mind map out of it.
The Google Fonts team has teamed up with Thomas Jockin to create a series of fonts that are aimed at improving reading speed. To learn more about the research behind this initiative, see here for more details. Source: G Suite Updates Blog: New fonts intended to help improve reading speed now available in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides…
Google continuously iterates versions of Google Docs, but as it does, there are sometimes parts of Google Docs that aren’t update. The appearance of adding links in Google Docs hasn’t been updated with the rest of the app, but this is now changed. Although it is strictly a cosmetic change, it does help students use…