Google Chrome - Tips and Tricks (Google Summit)

This was based on Friday's Sessions at that I attended at the Great Plains Google Summit.

Chad Kafka was a presenter of a session Achievement Unlocked: Chrome Productivity. There were several takeaways:

1. You can publish a Google Doc and it looks like a website when you share it.  The link above was done that way.
2. The best way to use two separate Google accounts is to sign into Chrome as two separate persons.  Everything you do once you are signed into a Google Chrome account is saved in that account.  This way your personal Gmail account and anything related to your personal use are kept separate.
3. Signed in other places? Check by clicking on "Details" at the bottom of your Gmail page.
4. You can pin tabs, but trying to figure out if I should do that or have bookmarks.  I guess you would pin tabs for tabs that you use all of the time?  Will have to think about that.
5. One thing I haven't used much is Bookmarks, and really saw today how they could be useful. You can even just have the icon as one of your bookmarks by right clicking and deleted the name of the bookmark.  I also set up a Union College folder for all of my frequently used Union College links. He used folders to keep a list of frequently used Google Files. Learn more about the Bookmark Manager.  **Students could create folders for keeping track of all of their work for a certain class**
6. You can easily create a Bookmark by clicking on the lock next to the URL and dragging it to the Bookmark bar or folder. 
7. The college could create a Managed Bookmarks to have a list of websites that the college would want to have accessible, such as HR, maybe our intranet sites, etc.
8. Several extensions were mentioned.  I have added them to my Must Have Apps and Websites.
9. He also shared a list of extensions that they allow at their school.
10. There were several things I knew about, but would be good to tell people who are new to using Chrome, such as incognito windows, pulling a tab away, copying bookmarks to another user, etc.  

I then went to Chad's second session Adding On with Add-ons. I am going to add them to my list of Must Have Apps and Websites.  Some of the ones I'm sure I will use are as follows:

1. FormMule - takes data collected by a form or sheet and sets up a mail merge.  When a form gets filled out, it automatically emails someone.
2. EasyBib - easy way for students to create bibliographies in Google docs.
3. g(Math) - to enter graphs or complex math in Google docs or sheets.
4. Choice Eliminator - gives a list of options, and after a certain number of people have chosen an option, that option goes away. Ideas include times for parent-teacher conferences or the donation of shared classroom school supplies. 
5. docAppender -  Use a Google Form to select which Doc(s) to append from a list, multiple-choice, or checkbox Form question -- pre-populated with Doc titles from a folder in Drive.
6. CheckItOut would be nice to use if we have items for teachers to check in and out.
7. Zapier is a way that a form can be used to create a calendar invite.  Need to look into this one!

Yesterday was a session on using Google Forms to created an approval process.  I think that adding docAppender to this would make a good way if we had 10 people to approve something.  Also, the bookstore could use the FormMule to email them after a form has been filled out.

Ctrl-K to open up the hyperlink editor.

Grammarly app - super grammar check for anything you do online.