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Innovative Teaching and Learning: Google G Suite

Digital Resources Integrated with G Suite

Staff and students can export notes and highlights created in OverDrive Read titles for offline use.

  • On the History & notes page (under Account), select Notes & highlights for a title. Choose the Export option at the top of the next page to download in one of the available options.
  • Notes and highlights can be exported to Google Drive, PDF, or CSV, or copy to the clipboard. Options available depend on browser compatibility.
  • The following is included when exporting notes and highlights:
    • Title, author, and series (when applicable)
    • Cover image (not available for CSV)
    • Checkout date and time
    • Total number of checkouts for the title
    • Reading information, such as how many times the book was opened, the number of pages turned, and amount of reading time
    • Notes, highlights, and highlight colors
    • Date and time each note or highlight was made

For a demonstration of how to use History and Notes in OverDrive, please view the following video:

Gale Databases and Google G Suite

Google G Suite

Many Gale databases are integrated with Google G Suite to allow users to share Gale resources in Google Classroom, and to download resources to Google Drive. You can integrate Gale articles and multimedia into activities such as:

  • Creating assignments
  • Discussions
  • Making announcements
  • Saving resources for lesson planning

Gale databases currently compatible with G Suite:

 

Using Gale Resources in Google G Suite

To learn how to use resources from Gale databases in G Suite, please read the following document:

Google G Suite    Learn360

Learn360 is now fully integrated with Google Apps for Education and Google Drive! Share and download video, audio, images, and printables with the click of a button.

Visit Learn360's website to learn how to:

  1. Share to Google Classroom 
  2. Download to Google Drive

To save Rosen databases resources to Google Drive, find the article you which to save, and click save

Rosen

The WCDSB subscribes to the following Rosen databases:

Digital Literacy Digital Literacy

 

 

Teen Health & Wellness Teen Health and Wellness

Google Gsuite Training

Google G Suite

WCDSB Google G Suite Training is freely available to all staff and students through your WCDSB Google account. Access interactive training videos and resources for many G Suite apps (Gmail, Classroom, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.):

1. Log in to your Google account.
2. Click GAFE Help in the top right corner of the Google App you are using.

3. Share a tutorial by clicking the Share button Share arrow located beside the tutorial titles in the training menu. 

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