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Google Hangouts: Getting Things Done
May 7, 2015
Tags: Chat, Google, Google Apps, Google Hangouts, Hangouts
Beginning today, Google Hangouts is enabled for all CCSD21.org users, students and staff. (Hangouts was originally opened as an option to staff only when it became mostly compliant with Google Vault.) Google has recently made Hangouts fully compliant with Google Vault, the service that School District 21 uses to necessarily archive email and chat messages. […]
Google+ Photos: Now in Drive
May 7, 2015
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Plus, Photos, Pictures
This week, Google is rolling out a new feature to Google Apps for Education domains. Google+ Photos will now appear in Google Drive on the left side titled as “Google Photos” as pictured below. There are some great benefit to this feature, and staff members also need to understand the distinction between the storage of […]
Using Google Drive in the browser
May 28, 2013
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides
While Google Drive will work in most browsers, CCSD21 students and staff members will use it most frequently and to the greatest effect in the Chrome browser, and all features and apps are supported when using Chrome. If you haven’t done so already, sign into Google Apps with your CCSD21 Google Apps account. Once you […]
Google Apps Collaboration: Sharing Files & Folders
May 28, 2013
Tags: Collaboration, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Teams
In Google Drive, you can share one or more of your files or folders with people by sending them a link to your file or sharing the file with an individual’s email address or a mailing list. To share a file: 1. Go to your Google Drive. 2. Check the box next to the file […]
New Google Drive launches
July 30, 2014
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Office 2011
Since June 2013, School District 21 staff members have been transitioning from local file storage and Office 2010/2013 (Windows) and Office 2011 (Mac) to Google Drive. This move has gone tremendously well thanks to the efforts of students and staff members. Throughout the organization, staff members are collaborating in Google Drive, and the tools provided […]
Google Apps settings (& more settings)
May 19, 2013
Tags: Calendar, Chat, Contacts, Email, Gmail, Google, Google Apps
Each component of Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, etc.) has its own settings that the end user (staff member or student) can set for himself or herself. While there are a handful of settings that have been set at the District-level for either students, staff, or for all users, most settings have been left […]
Google Drive: An overview
May 19, 2013
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Forms, Google Keep, Google Sheets, Google Slides
Over the past number of years, CCSD21 students and staff members have been taught to store their files in their Documents folders or on their Desktops within their home directories. This is now coming to an end with the move to Google Drive, the new location for file storage for CCSD21 students and staff members. […]
Chrome: Your main workspace
May 19, 2013
Tags: Chrome, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Google Drive
A number of years ago, Google launched its own web browser, Chrome, and since that time it has become the fastest browser in the world, the second most widely used browser in the world, and the only web browser (so far) that has also become its own computer operating system (ChromeOS–which runs on Chromebooks). […]
Google Drive: Enabling Offline Access
May 28, 2013
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides
Enabling Offline Document Access By enabling offline access, you will be able to view Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings, move folders around, and edit files stored in your Google Drive folder when you are offline. Follow these steps to enable offline access to your documents: 1. Open Google Drive in your browser. 2. […]
CCSD21 Gmail: Inbox with Tabs
June 22, 2013
Tags: Gmail, Google, Google Apps
Just as School District 21 cutover the entire District from Exchange to Google Apps, Gmail’s newest method for organizing one’s Inbox was made available to CCSD21 staff members in Google Apps–Tabbed Inboxes. Up until now, and by default still today, one’s CCSD21 Gmail Inbox might look something like the image below, in which Priority […]
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