Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) is a suite of media creation tools used at the secondary level in dedicated media labs. Popular apps include: Photoshop and Illustrator for photo and graphics, Premiere for video editing and  InDesign for desktop publishing. Adobe...

Epic is a collection of over 40,000 high-quality digital books—including many current titles—that appeal to students from Kindergarten to Gr. 7. The video below gives a brief outline of how and why the tool might be used in a classroom....

Edublogs is a student blogging environment built on the popular web-publishing platform WordPress. The video below gives a brief outline of how and why the tool might be used in a classroom. For more information please visit the Edublogs website:...

Scratch is an educational tool that teaches students about coding through a series of building-block tools. Students can create their own games and animations, and view the work of other students. An iPad app called Scratch Jr. allows students in...

HEIC is an image format that is used by iPhone and iPad cameras. Unlike the more universal JPEG image format HEIC is not readable by some Windows computers and typically displays as a generic image icon that Windows cannot open....

Why forward your GSuite email to your Outlook email? Get notified when students submit assignments to Google Classroom—fine tune what you get notified about in Classroom following these instructions. Get notified when a colleague or student shares a resource or...

Sometimes students miss a teacher's feedback when it is communicated through Google Classroom. One common reason for this is that the students have their notifications turned off. Notifications cannot be enabled by system administrators or teachers. Each student will need...

If you use an iPhone to reply to email messages you may have noticed that it embeds a default signature into your emails. When using the stock iOS Mail app the signature reads “Sent from my iPhone.” If you have...

When you leave your classroom, office and/or kitchen table for a well-deserved break this summer you may want to set up an Out of Office reply for your work email. You can do this using either GVSD Webmail or the...

Smart Compose is a new Google Docs feature that introduces predictive text. The feature appears to be turned on by default, but it can be disabled by users individually. Read Google's announcement about this feature here. Turning Smart Compose Off/On...