Supporting Diverse Learners using Chrome Features and Extensions for Accessibility 

As educators, we are always working to discover ways to support the vast learner variability in our classrooms. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework focused on responding to learner diversity by designing flexible pathways to engage, represent, and express knowledge.

Monitoring Progress & Providing Feedback with Docs & Slides in the Secondary Classroom 

Google Docs and Google Slides offer a wide variety of options for designing learning experiences that facilitate the monitoring of student progress, as well as opportunities for giving timely and effective feedback.

Google Classroom Features To Monitor Progress and Provide Feedback in the Secondary Classroom 

Google Classroom provides educators with multiple opportunities to monitor student progress and provide timely, targeted feedback.

Monitoring Student Understanding with Google Forms in the Secondary Classroom 

Google Forms is a fantastic tool that can be used to design formative assessment opportunities. With both pre and post teaching assessment strategies, as well as opportunities to check for understanding within the learning experience, educators can design activities that differentiate instruction for students while collecting important data along the way.

Managing Tabs in Google Chrome 

How many tabs do you have open in your Google Chrome browser right now? Five? Ten? More? Tabbed browsing is a fantastic way to be productive, but it can also get visually overwhelming and disorganized pretty quickly. There are several strategies to manage tabs. Check them out in the video below.

Utilize Google Keep to Create a Feedback Comment Bank 

Timely and authentic feedback is a vital component to student learning.  The Google Docs comments feature is a fantastic tool to share feedback with students.  Teachers can highlight specific sections of text and insert written comments to help students improve their writing.   However, this process can become overwhelming with many students in multiple classes.  At times, teachers might find themselves repeatedly sharing the same comment with multiple students, which can be time-consuming.  A possible solution to streamline the workflow of creating feedback comments is to use Google Keep in conjunction with Google Docs to create a Comment Bank of sorts.…