Using the Share to Classroom Chrome Extension

Part 1: Sharing a typical website.

Part 2: Sharing a document in Google Drive.

***If you are at all familiar with Google Drive and Google Classroom, you know that using the Share to Classroom extension to share a document from your google drive is not the most efficient way to do that. In fact, to use the Share to Classroom extension to do that is not just more complicated than using Classroom, it's much more complicated. So no, I'm not posting a tutorial on how to do that.

Gee! Sweet!

Earlier this month Google made a rather significant change to its Google Apps for Education collection of apps. Google Apps for Education has been renamed (rebranded?) as G Suite for Education (GSFE).

But the change isn't only in the name. The change also means that the current collection of apps associated with GSFE will be updated with "new intelligent features that make work easier and bring teachers and students together", according to the announcement.

These changes include the addition of an "Explore" feature in both Sheets, Docs, and Slides. In Sheets, teachers and students can use the new feature to quickly visualize data to make judgments on how to proceed. In Docs, teachers and students can the new feature to find related topics, images, content, and Drive files that may provide additional information on the subject of the document. In Slides, the new feature can suggest slide formatting options to make formatting the presentation go quicker so teachers and students can spend more time on adding rich content.

You can read more about these updates on the official blog post and the Google for Education site.