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Teaching with Google Classroom

By : Michael Zhang
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Teaching with Google Classroom

By: Michael Zhang

Overview of this book

Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it’s already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It’s not just a manual, you’ll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Teaching with Google Classroom
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Citing references in Google Docs


With information becoming more and more readily available, properly citing sources is being taught to students at a younger age. English and social studies classes require a larger amount of writing with citations. While Google Docs provides inline citation, it does not offer a means to add a works cited page or a bibliography at the end of a document. Imagine Easy's Google Docs add-on, EasyBib provides this missing feature.

Using the research feature

The research sidebar in Google Docs allows students to use Google search for websites, images, and journal articles within the document. To enable and use its citation features, follow these steps:

  1. In a Google Docs document, select the Research option in the Tools menu. The Research sidebar will appear on the right:

  2. When hovering over the search results, three options will appear—Preview, Insert Link, and Cite:

    • A: Preview shows a small window of the website beside the sidebar. Clicking on the window will open...