Tech Tutor Mark

Creating and sharing contact groups in Gmail has changed a lot over the years, and this video will bring you up to date. This is the latest version of Sharing Google Contact Labels for 2023-2024. Other tips shown include setting up Chrome to prompt you where downloads will go, pinning Chrome tabs, creating and editing contacts, and moving a contact to one or more labels. Exporting, saving, importing, and sharing are also included.

Learn two great ways to get rid of YouTube's suggested videos, which pop up at the end of each video, even in an educational LMS. Google Slides and the popular learning management system, Schoology, are both featured in this video. Learn two great ways to tame two of YouTube's worst annoyances for teachers. The code you will need in your HTML: ?rel=0

Voice Typing in Google Docs is demonstrated in this quick voice-to-text video clip. See how to insert text into a list, how to turn on the microphone, insert a new line of text (and new paragraph), and also how to locate the cheat sheet of tips for advanced usage. The link to Google's Voice Typing Help Guide: https://support.google.com/docs/answe... This "cheat sheet" from Google will give you the advanced-level features you need for using Voice Typing in Google Docs to its fullest extent, becoming a Pro in no time at all.

Learn how to turn on the Live Caption feature in Google Chrome, and be amazed at how each web video you watch in English is automatically closed-captioned for students and any other viewers who need it. Great for ESL and hard-of-hearing viewers. Definitely worth checking out. Does not work on live Zoom webinars (yet).

If you've ever wanted to share a document with your students or colleagues, but want to force a copy to be made - so that the original is not destroyed, this tip will do the trick. Learn how to "force copy" a document in two different ways. One way just has the "Make a Copy" button, while the other shows the first page of the document and has a "Use Template" button instead.

Learn how to create email "templates" that can be used over and over, saving you time in answering the same questions repeatedly. The video gives an example of how to set one up. These templates are also known as "canned responses." Just don't forget to first turn On "Templates" in the Settings--Advanced section of your Gmail.

Most of us do pretty basic Google searches and we don't worry about the advanced operations. This video takes searching to the next level by exploring Google's Advanced search options. See all of the different ways you can search for files, and then take a quick look at Google's Image search as well. Locate transparent images and search by license as well. This puts various advanced search tips into one tutorial, allowing you to be much more adept in your web searching than ever before.

Learn the benefits of pinning tabs in Google Chrome. This is both a time-saver and a great organizational tool. See how this technique works as a simple but efficient workflow.

This video provides a quick overview of Google Drive for Desktop and shows how you can drag and drop, copy and paste, and move documents and folders quickly in Windows, and have everything sync to your Google Drive online. This is a huge time-saver that you should find very useful if you haven't discovered it yet.

Create screenshots or snips in Windows 10 using tools you already have. Three methods are shown in this video.

Everyone who has ever used Google Drive has wondered about the finer points of the "Shared with Me" section. How do you add items from this area to your own Drive, what are the various options available, and is there a handy reference video to show how it all fits together? Yes! There is, and this is the video that shows how "Shared with me" is a useful conduit that can be used rather easily.

Google Drive's "Priority" section is broken up into two parts: Priority (documents), and Workspace (shortcuts). This video shows both. How to create a workspace is demonstrated step by step in this video tutorial, showing how this method can help you tame an otherwise unwieldy collection of Google Docs and folders into eight distinct "workspace" topics that you can title yourself.

Google Maps provides a wealth of useful information about places you've never visited before, but what about the locations you HAVE visited? If you turn on location services on your phone, you may be surprised at how much information appears in "Your Timeline." This video shows how to find that information online in your home Gmail account.

With the sheer amount of daily emails that most of us receive, it can be extremely daunting to get to a "Zero Inbox." While that may be the goal, many of us don't have the process of making it happen. Using the steps in this highly useful video tutorial, you will learn the various features of Gmail that make it much easier to tame. Discover the "archive" button, the "select all messages" option, filter by a date range, and move the removed items back to the Inbox if needed. All of these tips will make you a much more knowledgeable Gmail user and more organized as a result.

This video shows how to create bookmarks and bookmark folders in Google Chrome. Once created, can edit the bookmarks, shortening their titles so that more buttons fit on your Bookmarks Bar. You will also learn how to create a drop-down list of bookmarks, placing them inside of folders.

This tutorial shows teachers how to embed content from Discovery Education into a Schoology course using the DE-to-Schoology integration. Embed videos from the My Content section of Discovery Education directly into your Schoology courses as well as from the DE QuickList feature. With this setup, it's painless and seamless to use both tools in one place.

Google Drive for Desktop lets Windows and Mac users drag and drop, as well as cut and paste, files and folders from their Google Drive while using a familiar desktop or laptop interface. This is a much quicker method of moving large amounts of disorganized files after a long school year, for example. If you're looking for a way to speed up the process of moving Google Drive files into organized folders very quickly and then have them sync online, this is a handy way to do it.

Google Drive has two distinct interfaces: List view and Grid view. You can easily switch back and forth between these two, and each has its own advantages. This video clearly shows and explains the differences, and why you may want to use both depending on the situation.

This tutorial takes you through the steps of recording audio, downloading and sharing an audio clip, inserting the audio into Google Slides, and then changing the Format Options within Slides.

This video takes Google Photos to the next level, showing some of the features found in both the web version and mobile version of this popular app. Learn how to search and bring up photos from your phone while in your desktop or laptop's browser. Various search options and extra bells and whistles of Google Photos are looked at in this extended version of the tutorial.

The Workspaces portion of Google Drive's "Priority" section is covered here. Learn how to create new workspaces in Google Drive, how to hide the ones you've already created, and how to restore older ones you may need again. It is all about organizing your Google Drive documents, making everything faster to get to in a more convenient location.

This video shows both how to archive your messages in Gmail, and also how to snooze a message, allowing it to pop back into your Inbox at a later time. Both tips will help you to manage your email in a much more efficient way. The archive feature is the best way to remove items from your Priority inbox while still being able to search for them later.

Learn how to look up all of your saved passwords in the Google Chrome browser. From here, you can delete or update your passwords for each site. There is also a way to locate your saved passwords online, which is also demonstrated in this video.

Learn how you can download and use the Microsoft Camera app with your document camera, save photos and video with this app, and also a few options for switching between your document camera and your laptop camera in a Zoom meeting.

Learn the finer points of using YouTube in this quick video presentation. From adding videos to a playlist to removing inappropriate comments and ads from video clips, this set of tips and resources should help you out. YouTube's lesser-known filters are also discussed and demonstrated here.

This quick overview of Canva shows how to use templates and also how to upload graphics from your own computer. The emphasis here is on how quickly you can create graphics without wasting a lot of time. From searching to creating the final product, this quick tutorial will introduce you using Canva.

Another method of email management, "snoozing" an email is a way to have an item temporarily removed from your Gmail inbox until you are ready to read and deal with it at a more convenient time. The options for snoozing an email are clearly shown in this quick tutorial.

This video takes tabs to the next level. Learn how to pin your open tabs in Google Chrome and then move those tabs into specific named groups. One of the biggest advantages of pinning your tabs is the ability to get them all back as soon as you re-open your web browser. See both techniques explained and demonstrated here:

Google Docs and Slides are good tools if students already have something typed and ready to turn in for a grade, but what if the assignment calls for a photo taken from a Chromebook? This video takes a look at different ways that a photo taken with a Chromebook camera (using the built-in Camera app) can be used. Learn how to save the Chromebook photo to Google Drive, name it, share it, and turn it in as a Schoology assignment.

For anyone wanting to use a projector or TV as a second monitor, this process will let you extend your laptop to a second screen and display across both of them, dragging windows back and forth and becoming twice as productive as you were with just one monitor.

In this video, taken from a summer webinar on Canva for Education, the technique of using Grids to place multiple images is shown. Canva also allows cropping of images within the placeholders, so this is shown as well.

If you would like to carve out various appointment slots for events such as parent-teacher conferences, coaching appointments, etc., there is no need to use a 3rd-party app. Just use the Appointment Slots option in Google Calendar. This video shows how to set this up for users who want to sign up to meet with anyone who has Google Calendar access. The number of slots and duration is flexible.

This is a quick explanation of how to turn on, as well as how to hide, extensions in Google Chrome. Learn the importance of the "puzzle piece" icon and how to disable and remove unwanted extensions. This video is all about how to manage your extensions in the easiest possible ways.

This video is all about getting started with Google Keep, the notes management app included with Google Workspace for Education. You can now find Google Keep on the far right side of your Gmail Inbox and any other Google app, so it is particularly easy to get to. Once you start creating notes, you will immediately discover how flexible it is for organizing your various daily notes. Give this tool a try, and use this video as a handy introduction.