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Category: Productivity

Plagiarism Scanner: Add-on for Google Docs

If your school uses G Suite for Education, there’s a good chance that you’ve graded (or will grade) your fair share of papers that have been written and submitted to you via Google Docs. In all of your grading, chances are you’ve come across a sentence, paragraph, or an entire paper that sounds…unoriginal. When you suspect a student has plagiarized somebody else’s work, where do you turn for help? Until now, some of your only options were to copy and paste the suspected text into your favorite search engine or perhaps an online plagiarism checker like the one offered by PrePost SEO. Well, with a free add-on for Google Docs, you can check for plagiarism with just a few clicks, right inside the Doc!

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Copy Your School Google Drive Over to a Personal Google Account

Whether you’re graduating or moving to a new school, if you’re a G Suite for Education user, odds are at some point in time you’ll want to save a copy of your schoolwork for use outside those four walls. Thankfully, Google has recently made the process of copying the contents of your Google Drive from your school account over to your personal account much more straightforward. To get started, head over to https://takeout.google.com/transfer.

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Gmail – Undo Send

Have you ever noticed a typo in the email you’re sending, but just a split second too late? Perhaps you’ve accidentally sent your shopping list to your boss instead of your significant other. Whatever the case may be, we’ve all been there.

Thankfully, Gmail has a creative way to help save you from yourself and it’s known as “Undo Send.” Enabling this setting for your Gmail account will allow you to set a 5-30 second delay between the time you click the send button and the moment when your message actually gets sent off.

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Google Slides – Insert Video from Google Drive

What’s the big deal?

Up until yesterday, if you wanted to include a video in your Google Slides presentation, YouTube was your only option. Now, in addition to searching for/pasting in the URL to your favorite YouTube videos, you can insert any video you have stored in your Google Drive! Now you can include that clip of your students’ chemistry experiment in your presentations without the added step of uploading it to YouTube. Keep reading to learn how.

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Insert Citations Easily with Google Docs

Google launched their new Explore feature back in September. This is a great tool that works in Docs, Slides, and Sheets to bring the power of Google search into whatever you (or your students) happen to be working on.

One of the lesser known Explore features is the ability to quickly insert a footnote citation into a Google Doc. MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations are supported. Keep reading below the fancy moving picture to learn how!

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Automatically Include Your Latest Tweet in Your Gmail Signature

Down below you’ll find a bit of code I wrote to have Google Apps Script automatically get my latest tweet and include it in my Gmail signature. Is this necessary? No. Is it kind of cool and will it make your friends jealous? You tell me.

First, a shout-out to Wesley Chun (@wescpy) for the inspiration. And to Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) for his wonderful TwtrService which made working with Twitter’s API a breeze. Let’s get started.

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