Do you need to send a mail merge to students/faculty/staff? Nervous about how to set one up? Learn the process hands-on by working through a practice session. We’ll even help you set up your first “real” merge before you leave. (Don’t forget to bring your files!)
Workshop: Google Calendars, Quick and Dirty
A brief overview of how to use Google Calendars. This class is intended for those who are comfortable with scheduling via electronic calendars, but may not be avid users of Google Calendars (yet). Create meetings, schedule appointments for your students to sign up, organize your activities, share your availablility, and get reminders about it all on your schedule!
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Workshop: Intro to Gmail
This class is intended for those who feel they need to “start from scratch” with Google email. Learn to organize, filter, and display your email the way you want! Use the power of Google Search on your inbox to find that critical email faster, get the important emails to rise to the top, and organize your conversations for easier recall.
Workshop: Sharing and Collaborating with Docs and Drive
An introduction to creating and sharing cloud based documents using Google Drive. Learn to create documents, spreadsheets, forms, presentations, etc. and share them with collaborators. Stop the old ways of sending versions of documents to everyone on the team and compiling everyone’s edits yourself. Take a look at the version history and learn to tag and organize your materials!
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Workshop: Gmail and Calendars for Departments and Offices
An introduction in a small group setting to the features of Gmail and Google Calendars designed for the faculty in a department or the staff in a campus office. Get your email set up, learn to create meetings, schedule shared office events, and other great features of Google Apps for Education.
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“Jennifer did a nice job demonstrating …”
“… the documentation you have set up for us and the handouts will be invaluable.”
Workshop: Integrating Google and Blackboard
Interested in using Google to share and collaborate? Still want to post materials, assignments, and other resourses in your Blackboard courses? This workshop will help you set up your your documents, folders, and assignments to take advantage of the opportunities of both platforms. Learn ways that Google and Blackboard can be used together and tips for resource set up to make a more streamlined and productive environment for your students.
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Ok, so this has totally changed how I interact with my students…
Using a Google Calendar in a Blackboard Course
Please Note: This content was originally posted on the date above on the IT News on Campus blog at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Have you been frustrated by the calendar in your Blackboard course?
Would you like to manage your course calendar in Google right along with your personal calendar?
You can create a course calendar that contains all the important date and event information related to your course, and make it available in Blackboard.
Some of the advantages of using a Google Calendar are:
- Updating your course calendar in Google automatically updates the the embedded calendar in Blackboard. Once you have embedded the calendar in your Blackboard course, any changes you make to events will be automatically updated when students view the calendar in Blackboard.
- Students can make the calendar available in their own Google Calendar app, so they can overlay the course calendar with their own primary calendar or copy the events to their primary calendars.
- All the features of Google Calendars are available for use, including the ability to invite students to an event, and keep a running tally of the responses.
To get you started, we have created a video that walks you through the steps of creating the calendar, adding events, and embedding the calendar in a Blackboard course.
If you need additional assistance getting your Google course calendar set up, please contact the IT Support Center by creating a ticket at http://itsupport.smcm.edu, and we will be happy to walk you through the process.
If you have any additional tips on using Google Calendars this way, please share them by commenting below.
Review: #1
Okay so this has totally changed how I interact with my students. I am communicating with them more outside of class about the content of the class rather than scheduling and informational questions. I believe this is because I am able to update directly and they know that I am only using blackboard for class administration ( not email, not hardcopies) – before I had to do a bit of both. Thank you!
Workshop: Integrating Google and Blackboard
September 2013
Review #2
Instructor was superb. It was obvious that she had already gotten comfortable with gmail/calendar and so could answer folks questions or offer suggestions. My past computer training experiences (not here) was mainly folks reading off the screen but if you asked a question, they often didn’t know what you were talking about. I will keep coming back for more training.
Workshop: Gmail and Calendars for Departments and Offices
December 2012
Review #4
The interaction between the trainer and trainee was very important particularly with the new Google applications. Ms. Wright encouraged everyone to view the introductory videos as additional resources and tips that will make the transition to Google less intimidating.
Workshop: Google Calendars, Quick and Dirty
January 2013