| SPPS Student Apps 
1. What is it?
Google Docs in Plain English from Teacher Tube
2. Why should you use it?
- Provides students with a way to save and access their work
- Offers equity for students without home access to programs like as PPT
- Eliminates the excuses for incomplete assignments
- Provides a means for collaborating
- Easy email, for communicating
3. Creating your teacher account
Go to http://connect.spps.org and click on "Teacher Activities" and "SPPS Apps." Log in using your Campus username and password, then click on "Create my teacher SPPS Apps account."
4. Creating contact lists for your classes and setting up forwarding to SPPS Lotus Notes mail
Click on "Class Rosters" on the Teacher Activities page, log in using your Campus user name and password, and follow the directions. If you want to create a custom group in Apps and the group members are not students, please click on this link to view directions for creating a custom CSV file to import.
5. Using the Docs Go to http://start.stpaul.k12.mn.us
- Your home page
- Email
- The Docs
- Documents
- New footnote feature
- Insert Comments
- Use the block quote feature
- Presentations
- Spreadsheets
- Forms
- Use to create surveys
- Automatically creates a spreadsheet with survey responses
- Folders
- Check out the templates
- Printing - creates a pdf on your desktop
- Uploading and downloading documents
- Sharing
- Comment feature
- Revision history
- Show as web page feature
- Docs Basics handout
6. Possible issues
- Browser needs to be current
- Ensure that students know their UN and PW before beginning a project
- Formatting - avoid complex formats as they can be lost
7. How is it being used?
- English - Letters to the president
- Business - Paperless classroom
- ELL - Quality and quantity of student writing has increased
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