Google Certification Exam #1 (Part 2)

Mr. Brixham is the principal at a large school and receives an overwhelming volume of emails from teachers, support staff, students, parents, and the school district governors. He often struggles to find important emails quickly. How can he use the search function in Gmail to locate emails more efficiently?

Search for keywords within emails Filter emails that have attachments Search for emails within a label Search for emails by sender or recipient

Mr. Yamouth needs to contact a student's parents to congratulate the student on improved progress. However, their first language is German and they are not fully fluent in English. What is the quickest action he could do to produce an effective email on his own?

Search the Chrome Web Store for the Google Translate extension for Chrome. Use the extension to provide a German version of the text within the email

Paint Point overcome: Standardized teaching resources for all students regardless of learning speeds and abilities

Benefit: Access to resources and information relevant for different learning speeds

Hangout feature: screenshare

Benefit: Any participant can share their desktop with the group

Hangout feature: Calendar integration

Benefit: Hangout details are simply added when creating a meeting

Hangout feature: Video calling

Benefit: Meeting can be extended visually with up to 15 remote participants

Mr. Kapoor struggles to find inspiration from his peers. What is one benefit of establishing a Personal Learning Network (PLN)?

By establishing a Personal Learning Network, he would develop links with other local and non-local educators to share ideas and best practices, and to call upon for teaching advice.

Mr. Swanson's politics students had to create a blog about their policies if they were elected to be on the school's student council. One student received a nasty response from an online user she doesn't know. What advice should Mr. Swanson give her to overcome this type of response?

Check and change privacy settings on her blog to see if she had shared it with just members of her school or with the public Document the user's details Block the person from accessing the blog Report the incident to a member of staff if it happens again

How to use google forms effectively

Check class understating of a topicCollect anonymous feedback

Paint Point overcome: High volume of printing for assignments and worksheets, and photocopying from textbooks for take-home resources

Benefit: Lower printing and copier costs with online resources and file storage

Hangout feature: chat

Benefit: Participants can communicate by text without disrupting the meeting and their conversations are saved

Hangout feature: Android and iOS app

Benefit: People can join the meeting even when mobile

Mr. Murakami leaves written notes with motivational quotes for his students by writing them on paper and leaving them in different locations in his classroom. Occasionally his students will claim they didn't get a note or admit that they lost it.

Use instant messaging in Hangouts to send messages directly to students, which can be received on a PC or through a mobile app Use Groups to send group messages to all students in his class

Mr. Perry has bookmarked a large number of webpages in Chrome while researching class topics. Unfortunately, he's bookmarked so many that's he's struggling to find relevant content Quickly. What can he do within the Bookmark manager of Chrome to simplify and organize his list of bookmarks?

Use the search function in the Chrome Bookmark Manager Rename and organize bookmarks into themed folders so they are labeled clearly

Mr. Jones is keen to move to a paperless class as he finds the process of managing assignments time consuming. How will shifting to Classroom help?

When a teacher sets an assignment in Classroom, email notifications and the class Stream ensure students don't need to be constantly reminded Teachers can define answers when they set assignments to enable auto-grading Teachers can grade and comment on assignments directly in Classroom and students will immediately receive email notifications to view their scores

Paint Point overcome: Prescriptive teaching methods that do not allow for teacher creativity in class instruction or materials

Benefit: Students given access to different types of information from a range of sources for enhanced problem-solving

Paint Point overcome: Students limited to school hours when working with other students on collaborative projects

Benefit: The ability to collaborate remotely in real-time with peers on group projects

Your student Jacob is struggling to understand why water is one of the most important substances in the universe. You find a video titled "Water-Liquid Awesome: Crash Course Biology #2" on the featured channel 'Crash Course' Find the relevant video on YouTube and share it with Jacob Kerr via email Hint: Open up Gmail account provided to your for this exam to complete this task.

Copy-paste video title "Water-Liquid Awesome: Crash Course Biology #2" in the YouTube search box, open the video watch page. Click the share button and copy a shareable video link. Sign in to Gmail in a new tab. Send an email to Jacob Kerr. Copy-paste video link in the email.

You decide to create a playlist of relevant biology videos to share with your students as a reference material Create a new YouTube playlist containing three suitable videos Give the playlist a description and the settings make it "unlisted' Share the playlist with some students in your class by emailing it to ​[email protected]​.

Create a new playlist. Select "unlisted' Find your playlist on a left sidebar. Click on the Playlist name to enter the playlist page. Add a description. Click the Share button, select the Email tab. Enter the email address ​[email protected]​ to share the playlist.

Mr. Elba is editing a presentation in Google Slides and wants to improve the appearance of the slides. What visual elements can he incorporate into his presentation to make it more visually appealing?

Embed relevant YouTube videos to break up the text and presentation Insert fonts and color combinations intentionally to attract attention to key elements of the lesson

How google forms can be used within slides to encourage student participation.

Gauge understanding Rate the content that is being presented

Mrs. Powell is looking at ways to reduce the amount of printing undertaken in class. How can Google Drive help?

Google Drive makes files easily accessible from anywhere, so there is less need to print and carry documents into class Files in Google Drive can be shared with a simple link in an email. No need to print a copy for someone in class

How google drawings can be used within slides to encourage student participation.

Graphically design ideas

Traditional Classroom Skills

Looking up an answer in a textbook Pinning printed projects in wall displays around the school Working in groups in-person during set hours to collaborate on a joint project Filing paper-based documents in a physical storage area for safe-keeping

You're looking for videos to use in your biology class to help your students grasp difficult concepts. While browsing YouTube, you find some interesting, educational-specific videos. Subscribe to a relevant science channel so you can find these videos again.

Open YouTube in a Separate Tab of your incognito window. Make sure you're signed in with a Google account provided by the test center. Refresh window if needed. Search for video using a query such as "biology crash course". Open a YT video channel and press the subscribe button. Make sure you've subscribed to the right google account.

Digital Classroom Skill

Remote collaboration and teamwork with multiple people for the best results Storing documents in the cloud for easy retrieval and editing Finding the best online resource, information and method to solve a problem Communicating to a wide audience by publishing work online

Mr. Yarmouth needs to contact a student's parents to congratulate the student on improved progress. However, their first language is German and they are not fully fluent in English. What is the quickest action he could do to produce an effective email on his own?

Search the Chrome Web Store for the Google Translate extension for Chrome. Use the extension to provide a German version of the text within the email

Ms. Pieterson is the deputy principal in a school split across two sites. She travels regularly between the two sites by bus, but is annoyed with the amount of time she wastes traveling. She would like to make better use of her commute time. What can she do?

She can turn on the Agenda app on her PC before she travels, which will sort her tasks and meetings while she's traveling and arrange them in priority order when she's back at her PC.

Ms. Villagarcia has been tasked by the principal to improve communication and discussion between teachers and support staff. What is the most appropriate tool to fulfill this need?

She can use Google Groups to easily create an online discussion forum and invite all relevant people to start conversations and participate in different discussion topics in one accessible place.

Why explain the importance of digital citizenship in a digital classroom?

So students understand what they should and shouldn't do online, and to act in a safe and respectful manner

Ms. Garcia has divided her class into groups to work on different geography projects. Each group will present their project to the class using Google Slides. What are some benefits of using Slides in group projects?

Students can browse and copy slides created by any student at any other school Students can comment on slides to provide feedback for their group members Students can collaborate on the slide desk at the same time Students can import videos from YouTube or a Drive folder they've shared with each other without additional software

Students already familiar with a web-conneced world will feel immediately at home with Google Classroom. What benefits will they enjoy from their assignments going online?

Students can discuss assignments in a collaborative environment Assignments and resources are kept organized in one place Students can see at a glance when assignments are due

Students already familiar with a web-connected world will feel immediately at home with Google Classroom. What benefits will they enjoy from their assignments going online?

Students can discuss assignments in a collaborative environment Students can see at glance when assignments are due Assignments and resources are kept organized in one place

How google docs can be used within slides to encourage student participation.

Suggestion notepad Additional reference material

Mr. Bentley finds it easy to use Google Docs, Sheets and Slides in his classroom as they are very similar to other programs he's used in the past. He overhears his colleague Ms. Bernard talk about using Google Forms as well, but isn't sure how it's relevant in a school environment. Which of the following are relevant uses for Google Forms in education?

Surveys for collecting data for group projects Gathering feedback on field trips Create formative quiz checks at the end of each lesson

Students in your biology class sometimes struggle to understand biological processes, like digestion. What digital activities can help get students more involved in exploring a process?

Teacher provides useful videos in a YouTube playlist Students create a diagram in Google Drawing to explain the biological process Students use Google Search to research the subject

How to use google sheets effectively

Analyze trends on a record of books read by studentsCreate a gradebook to track student scoresProtect collected data from change