Viewing All of a Students' Work

This information is geared toward teachers using Google Classroom, which automatically adds the student's name to the assignment title,  but it could work for anything shared in Drive, as long as you use a consistent search term. 

 If you want to see all of the files turned in by a single student in a class regardless of assignment:

If so, here is a simple hack:  
1. In Drive, search owner:<student username>, this will only show you files owned by that student.
2. Select/highlight all of the turned in assignments.   
3. Click the preview button (eyeball icon)
now just use your right arrow key to quickly browse through the assignments.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Drive

A teacher asked how to copy items into multiple cells of a Google spreadsheet (à la the fill down option in Excel). Needing to Google the answer myself, I found this great help page on Google Drive's help site.

The answer: Ctrl-D

Syncing Google Drive on Your Computer

Here are step by step instructions to install and use the Drive app to sync all of your online Google Docs to a folder on your computer. You will need assistance from the Tech Dept to do the install but the rest is all yours. :)




Google Drive and Docs for Teachers 2012

Google Drive

Google Docs has now converted/updated to Google Drive.


In a nutshell, Drive allows users to upload and all types of files for online storage and access from any location.   Google  Drive also allows one to sync your Google Drive files to a folder on your Mac or PC by installing Google Drive on your computer.

Learn more about the changes!