The CS First and Google for Education teams both made some significant updates to the apps for back to school.
In this episode of The Suite Talk, I go over the changes to the following:
- an overview of the new CS First dashboard and interface
- creating a class
- the progress bar
- sending feedback
- adding activities
- two new activities available which are Characterization, and Interactive Presentation
- student rosters
- student login and joining a class
- resources available
- Google Expeditions can be used on Android enabled Chromebooks to run and guide tours.
- Also, the narration feature for the points of interest on the tours.
- Google Classroom rubrics is now available in beta. Click here to read more about it and to sign up for the beta program.
- The Lexend font is a new font that is now available for Google Docs. The font can help readers with special needs. Click here to read more about it.
I hope you find this episode helpful. For more episodes, please visit my website at www.thesuitetalk.com