Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is the paid version of the Adobe Acrobat application. With it you can create and edit PDF documents. Previously all staff had access to this tool, but due to licencing restrictions Acrobat Pro is installed on...

Google has recently updated its Google Drive app for iPads. The most significant change for students who regularly share devices is the placement of the account management area—the section students use to log out of Drive after uploading their files....

What is GoFormative? GoFormative is a powerful digital tool for gathering student responses to visual and/or text-based questions created by teachers. The web documents created by the application are called Formatives. Formatives can be used as an assessment tool, or...

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a tool built into many modern image and document scanners, including many of the photocopiers in the district. While some of the scanners may have this feature turned on by default, consult the settings on...

So you're looking to capture something your students are building on their Chromebooks, but you don't want them to stop and export things as they go... Why not use the Chromebook's built-in screenshot functionality to take a picture of their...

Using Read&Write for Google Chrome allows you to give audible feedback in the form of a voice note that students can listen to when you return their work through Google Docs. To use this feature, open up the Google Doc...

In late October 2018, Google launched a series of new domains on the internet to save its users a few seconds of time for a task that we're all familiar with: creating new Google stuff. Documents, spreadsheets, slideshow presentations or...

Google Slides is an excellent tool for both presentations and graphic design. We use it to design almost everything here at the Tech for Learning team. One tool in Slides that we can't live without is the Paint Format tool. It...

In September 2018, Texthelp launched a new tool as a part of the Read&Write toolbar for Google Docs called Check It. The tool was designed to spot spelling errors and search for specific grammatical errors. To activate the Check It tool,...

How do I play sound without using my projector? You are able to play sound from any device plugged in through either HDMI, a headphone jack (AUX) OR wirelessly via AirPlay on Macs, iPads, or iPhones. To enable this, you...