I remember learning about Doctopus earlier this year and realizing that this could solve a big issue that we've had with the app version of Drive. Doctopus allowed us to share the same document with individual students so that we didn't have 25 students collaborating on one document. Even more exciting was the fact that we could keep tabs on what the students were actually doing while they were working - in REAL TIME! With the new add-ons, Doctopus is still awesome... times 10.
With the new add-on version of Doctopus, you don't have to run the script every time you want to use it. Once you've added it, it's there to use all the time. The other wonderful change that has been made is now you don't have to keep making a copy of your master class roster. Doctopus will remember which lists you have used in the past and you are able to choose from a drop-down menu. Fantastic news! Even the new look of Doctopus is better. There creepy Doctopus character is less creepy!
The other Google script I've just discovered is Gclassfolders. A-MAZ-ING! Gclassfolders allows you to create shared folders for your students so that as a teacher, you are able to have all of the students work in one spot and you can see what they're doing on assignments. The beautiful part is that Gclassfolders and Doctopus run hand-in-hand. Once you go through the Gclassfolders script, you can also run Doctopus for handing out assignments. However, right now, the script creators have not made Gclassfolders into an add-on yet, but I expect it to happen very soon.
Andrew Stillman and friends are the creators of these awesome scripts/add-ons and they continue to come up with great things to help teachers collaborate with students and to help keep teachers organized
I can't wait to see what comes next!
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