Assign Action Items in Google Docs

There's a new feature in Google Docs that allows users to easily assign and keep track of tasks and action items. It's easy to use and helps streamline information.

Simply add a comment in a document. To assign someone an action item, start by typing the @ symbol in front of their name, and click assign. This person will receive an email letting them know a task has assigned with a direct link to the task.

Explore Tools in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

You may have noticed the Explore button in the bottom right corner of your screen when using Docs, Sheets, or Slides. This new Explore Tool offers some powerful features that can help us create our best work. There is a lot to uncover with these new features, but below is a quick glimpse.

The Explore Tool in Google Docs:

• Offers suggestions of topics to learn about based on the content of your document
• Helps you search for other documents in your Drive 
• Has much more to offer when it comes to research  

The Explore Tool in Google Slides:

• Makes it easy to polish a slide layout
• Offers design suggestions for layouts and more 

The Explore Tool in Google Sheets can:

• Suggest formatting for your data
• Automatically add charts to your Spreadsheets
• Analyze your data
• Answer questions based on data 
• Do so much more! 

Google Classroom Updates

Google Classroom has a several new updates to help with organization and communication. Two of the most useful updates are highlighted here:

Google Docs Update- Add Columns in a Google Doc

Now you add columns in your Google Doc! This is an update that has been long been needed and it's finally here. To add columns, simply click Format --Columns. 

Google Drive Share Settings- The Basics

Creating a Signature File in Microsoft Outlook

Watch this 2 minute video on how to create a signature file in Microsoft Outlook

#LUSDED Twitter Family

Are you on Twitter? Do you know who else in LUSD is on Twitter?  Start following your LUSD colleagues by looking at the Team #lusded Twitter list!

Log in to Twitter and find @cbjohnsrud
Click Lists
Click Team #lusded
Click Members to see the members of Team #lusded
You may want to follow some of these people

Google Forms- Updates You Might Love

Google apps are always updating, and some of the newest features in Google Forms might make some of you fall in love (if you're not in love already). There are several recent changes, but you may want to take note of this: 

 You now have the option to make your form into 

an instant quiz with feedback! 

Here's how: 

After clicking on settings, you'll notice that there is a setting for quizzes. After selecting "Make this a quiz", you can customize some additional options including when to release the score and what students can see after submitting their responses. 

When creating the quiz questions, you can assign unique point values to each question. (Don't forget to mark the correct answer on the answer key!) 

Depending on your settings, students may have the option to view their scores. 

Students can review their answers and see their scores quickly and easily. 

Teachers can few responses easily and quickly under Responses. 

Only for LUSD Employees Who Love to Check Email!

Several of you have asked how to add your Outlook email to your iPhones and iPads. Watch this video for step by step guidance. If you have any issues, submit a tech ticket on LUSD Educators.

T'was the Day Before School...

T'was the day before school started and at all the school sites

Staff members were prepping- some through the night!

Cables were replaced in rooms here and there, 

In hopes that you'd see that we really do care! 

In previous years teachers shared a concern. 

They had no sound system- How can our kids learn?

"Please give us some speakers," we'd hear teachers cry. 

We said, "Ok-we're on it. Let's give it a try."

We wanted  teachers to start their school year 

with something that would allow students to hear 

the music and movie clips teachers use as they teach

When we discovered we had something already in reach!

"The projectors!" said Wayne, "they have speakers inside!"

"I've got this!" he said, filling with pride. 

Replacing the cables was all it would take;

Getting sound in the classrooms- a piece of cake! 

With any updates and changes involving new tech, 

things never seem to work like we expect. 

Some classrooms needed more than  an HDMI cable-

which is why some teachers found new doc cams on their tables. 

If you're a teacher with a new HDMI cord in your room, 

you should know you have sound now- your projector should boom!

Just turn up the volume on your tech devices

and please let us know if an issue arises. 

The Facts: 

• HDMI cables carry sound- if your projector is on and plugged in to your computer with an HDMI cable, you now have sound coming through your projector!  
• Some of the older document cameras do not have HDMI ports. These are slated to be replaced and have been ordered . In the meantime, the HDMI adapters should work.