Top 10 Google Docs Add-ons for teachers
One of the powerful aspects of G Suite is its 3rd party integrations that the community members can build to make Docs more powerful. With Addons for Google Docs, Sheets and Forms, we have more options than ever to improve our teaching and learning as well as make our lives so much easier!
Lets take a look at the top 10 Addons for educators:
Mapping Sheets
Want to quickly and easily make detailed maps with data from a speadsheet? No problem with the Mapping Sheets Addon.
VexTab Music Notation
With Vextab Music Notation you can easily add music notation, guitar and drum tabs to your documents. Great for the music teachers among us!
Autocrat
New Vision schools would have to be a leader in G Suite Addons. With Autocrat you can setup automated merges to create PDF or shared Google Docs. Great for completion certificates when linked to a Google Form, generating badges or batches of work for students -the possibilities are endless!
Kaizena
With Kaizena you can provide feedback in new ways beyond text. With voice comments on your Google Docs you can provide feedback that students have to think about, not just copy and paste your suggestions!
Grammarly
Not strictly for Google Docs, Grammarly deserves a mention for its ability to grade your writing, suggest fixes and generally make you a better communicator. It’s also great when looking for plagiarism. Grammarly is available as a Chrome Extension from the Chrome Web Store.
Gmath
If you teach maths, you need to put graphs, equations, angles, etc in Docs, Forms and more! Gmath is for exactly this.
Easybib
Sick of your students getting their bibliography wrong? Take away the pain with Easybib for a easy way to insert a bibliography.
Word Cloud Generator
Creating a word cloud from you document has never been easier with Word Cloud Generator. It takes a look at all your document’s words and instantly generates a word cloud for you.
Naavi Classroom Sync
With Naavi Classroom Sync you can easily take a list of students, teachers and classes from a spreadsheet and sync them into ready-to-go classes in Google Classroom. If you’re a domain administrator you can even setup classes for the entire school in one hit!
I hope you’ll discover something useful in this quick roundup of Google Docs Add-ons. Let me know on Twitter what I missed or which addon is your favourite!
