Converting Docx to Google Docs By: Daniel Knox

If you haven't already, I would highly recommend starting to move your documents to Google Drive. Cloud storage can allow you ultimate flexibility with your files. You can access them from any device connected to the internet and edit and upload on the go. It also offers amazing collaboration not available with MS Office products on your MacBook.

You can sign in to Google via Chrome and immediately start dragging and dropping folders inside your Google Drive. Drive will save all files in their current format. If you want to go ahead and convert Office files (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) to Google apps (Docs, Slides, Sheets), a simple fix can save lots of time trying to convert individually later.

See the next three pictures that describe what to do. There is a setting inside Drive you can toggle to allow Drive to automatically convert these files when you upload the documents.

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Preventing Cheating on Schoology: By Amanda Cross

Hello Friends! So I am going to spend the next few Tuesday's showing you ways to control cheating on Schoology. It is not a fix all and won't prevent it but it sure does slow it down and make it more difficult to cheat. The first thing I always do when administering a test or quiz on Schoology is check my settings! The picture below shows several settings that I use to help with cheating. Randomize Order: I always randomize the questions as much as possible. So that no one person is on the same question at the same time. I also tell students this so that maybe they will think " I can't look at my neighbor because they will have a different question." Resumable: I always set resumable to NO on a test or quiz because if they go out of schoology it will not let them back into that test and they will have to come see me to be let back in. Then I can ask them why they got out of the test/quiz. Now with this setting you will have...

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Using Screen Shots with Schoology By: Amanda Cross

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