Google Scripts!

For those of you who have begun using Google Forms in your classrooms and schools, you have probably found that they are a great way to collect data. From room reservations to formative assessments, forms offer a plethora of supports as an educator. Want to take it up a notch? Enter Scripts. Scripts are amazing add-ons that you can install into a spreadsheet to automate your life. From auto-scheduling in your calendar via a form to auto-grading an assessment to auto-handing out and sharing a document, scripts can make your life oh-so-much easier.

Recently I had the pleasure of doing a Google Hangout on the Air with Liz Castillo from Hawaii, Angie Kalthoff from Minnesota and Jay Atwood from Singapore. We shared about four of our favorite scripts:

• FormEmailer: Send email from a form
• Autocrat: Create PDFs and Google Docs from a form
• FormMule: Send out emails, voice messages, texts and calendar invites through a form
• Doctopus: Create copies of Google Docs, Presentations and Spreadsheets - then share them out with students/teachers

Andrew Stillman - the author of many of these scripts - has a great site to learn more about how to use these (and more) scripts in case our Hangout video wasn't detailed enough: youpd.org.

If that's not enough Script love for you, here's an early holiday gift: Jay has an amazing site chock full of script info, graphics and tips. I highly encourage you to check it out: sandbox.atwoodphoto.com.

Welcome to the CPS Chromebook PLC. This is meant to be a place for CPS educators who are using Chromebooks in the classroom to share ideas, ask questions and get support. We hope to use this PLC site as a hub for learning and augment it with Google Hangouts and occasional live meetings!

Please join this PLC to engage in this collaboration. There is no commitment; this is just a place to learn, share and be supported.

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If you have any questions, please contact Jennie Magiera.
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