Innovation 4 Everyone

Greetings! In my previous blog post I wrote about my recent use of scripts and add-ons . I was thrilled to have found a way to make my work more efficient and effective. Shortly after, I was faced with a new challenge: How could we send approximately 170 emails (each one containing unique information, such as parent emails, usernames, and passwords) for each one of the second grade students? In the past, I must confess, I composed one by one, each of the emails. But this time, I was determined to find a better way of doing this. I had a feeling that an add-on would do the trick. I had time to explore beyond the two tools I had just discovered, and that's when I came across formMule . It didn't take long to figure out how to apply this tool to my personal needs. formMule is a free add-on for Sheets created by NewVisions CloudLab. I had a Google Sheet already filled out that contained all the information I needed. I opened formMule and with very little configuration ...

Hi! It's back-to-school time. I hope your school year is off to a good start. As for me, it's been a very busy season. I can tell you that, amongst many other events, two major situations take place each year at my school: Open House and New Google Apps accounts. What's so special about these two? They both require a great deal of prepping and tech assistance. For instance, during Open House, the Tech Integration Team takes advantage that all the parents are present to have them register for tech orientation sessions. A couple of years ago, we'd lay out long sheets of lined paper, one for each different session, with a limited amount of lines. In the next years, we decided to take it a step further and created a Google Form. We had laptops available during each of the Open House nights and asked parents to register electronically to a tech session. While parents were submitting forms, I'd be in the background, checking numbers against the capacity we had fo...