Google Drive and Docs

Slideshow presentations can be great for addressing a room full of students or participants, but wouldn’t it be great if you could accept questions and comments electronically during the presentation? Well… you can now! Video shows an example (try to ... [Read More]

Google Sheets has come a long way, so far that I consider it a viable alternative to Excel. I did, however, bump into a little annoyance recently involving scientific data collected in a spreadsheet. Luckily it has an easy solution. ... [Read More]

Please also see the knowledge base article on Google Drive for an overview of Google Drive use. Also see Google Team Drive (part of Google Drive) to see if this makes more sense for your collaborative project. Moving content from ... [Read More]

Insert an equation in Google Drive Open a document in Google Docs. Click where you want to put the equation. Click Insert Equation. Select the symbols you want to add from one of these menus: Greek letters Miscellaneous operations Relations ... [Read More]

Ever wanted to link from one of your Google documents to another? You can! Go to a Google doc you want to link TO. Click on share. You can still make it shared only with you, or whatever is appropriate. ... [Read More]

Need an easy way to print materials at CPS that you may have created at home or elsewhere? Use Google Drive! Log into your CPS Google Account and head on over to Google Drive in Google Chrome (which allows easy ... [Read More]

You can have Google Drive files show up in multiple Google Drive locations. You can either copy files, so you in essence have two different files in different locations, OR you can have the same file APPEAR in two different ... [Read More]

Someone asked the other day, “Andy, I deleted a bunch of events from Google Calendar, but I want to get them back. Any way to get them back?” Why yes… yes there is a way to get them back! When ... [Read More]

For an easy way to put words on a page, you can type with your voice in a document. At the moment, this feature is only available in Chrome browsers and on Chromebooks. Before you get started, make sure that ... [Read More]

Having trouble finding something in Google Drive? Here are a few things to note and to try: If you are having trouble finding a new document (or spreadsheet, or slide, etc.) try looking under the “Recent” list. Sometimes it takes ... [Read More]