Google Drive: Tips and Tricks

This presentation was originally given as part of Scarsdale teacher's yearly professional development requirement in the area of technology. This PD session was part of the Scarsdale Teacher's Collaborative (ST@C).

From the course description:
Spend an hour learning Drive tips and tricks to help make your digital file life more organized and efficient.
http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/heathcotetech/stc/drive-tips-and-tricks/

The PD session slide deck:

Google Drive Gradebook Experiment...

Tomorrow is the first day of school, with students, here in New York City. Since it is that time of year it is also the time of year for dusting off the ol' grade book (and plan book).

A little background:

• I am the computer teacher
• I see 22 classes a week
• Roughly 700 students
• No school-wide grading platform
• Our central NYCDOE registration/attendance/data system generates Excel sheets with all student information so any platform I use I think about the data originating from Excel as I'd rather copy & paste as opposed to manually entering 700 names...

Each year I try to test out different ways of managing my grade book, efficiently. I'm always looking for ways to improve. In the past I have used: