With Google Apps comes many new possibilities:
- Students can collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, drawings, and presentations from any location at any time.
- Teachers can see students’ work as it develops, and give feedback by adding comments.
- Teachers can see which students contribute to a collaborative document by viewing the document’s revision history.
- Documents cannot be forgotten at home or lost on a corrupted USB drive.
- Departments can share a folder of common resources to access them anywhere, and even offline using Google Drive Sync
- All students now have a Google Account, so can use that to easily access services like Khan Academy.
- All students now have an email address under the gapps.yrdsb.ca domain, so they can now enrol services like Prezi’s Enjoy Edu which are free for educational users only.
- Shared calendars which can be added to mobile devices or embedded in Moodle courses can help with communication with departments, classes, clubs, and teams.
