Automatically making your Goals and Strengths Sheets

With Strengths and Goals coming up, this blog post describes a method that you can use to automatically create a Strengths and Goals document for each student in your class.

I have shared the documents that you need in the 2nd grade shared folder under Strengths and Goals. This process requires using a document template and a spreadsheet. If you have difficulty following along with the video, I would recommend replaying short sections of it, to see if it makes more sense the second time around.

Click here to see in a larger format in YouTube

Attaching documents quickly into Gmail online

Just like you can drag and drop files directly into Google Docs, it is also possible to drag and drop attachments into emails. In general it is probably easier to simply share documents using Google Docs, however there will always be times when you want to send out attachments such as when you are emailing parents photos and the like.

The following video gives a quick explanation of the process.

An easy way to upload to google docs.

As I have been traveling around to different teachers in our team, we have discovered some great ways to make uploading documents to google docs much easier. In particular we found that it can be as simple as dragging and dropping your files straight into the collection (folder) that you have opened, even if it's a shared folder.

Following is a short video that I made this evening which explains the process.