Google Apps is a great suite for learning. So far we have used Google Docs which allows students to collaborate on writing as well as encouraging the drafting process. None of this is new. What is new to our school is the use of Hapara.
Hapara is a teacher and administrator dashboard that allows us to have full read-write-edit privileges on our student work without requiring students to go through the act of sharing the document. Anything that is kept in their subject folder is viewable by the teacher who teaches that subject.
I have used Hapara to make comments on student work, watch their progress and keep them accountable for the work done in class(revision history). I can see all the students folders on one screen and go in and out of each student's work with one click.
Hapara is also great for sharing documents with students. I can post any type of document into their shared folder and they will see it there when they login. I have also sent blank documents with the title I want the assignment to have and they have used those documents to complete their work.
Final papers always go into turnitin, but Google is amazing for drafts.
Hapara is a teacher and administrator dashboard that allows us to have full read-write-edit privileges on our student work without requiring students to go through the act of sharing the document. Anything that is kept in their subject folder is viewable by the teacher who teaches that subject.
I have used Hapara to make comments on student work, watch their progress and keep them accountable for the work done in class(revision history). I can see all the students folders on one screen and go in and out of each student's work with one click.
Hapara is also great for sharing documents with students. I can post any type of document into their shared folder and they will see it there when they login. I have also sent blank documents with the title I want the assignment to have and they have used those documents to complete their work.
Final papers always go into turnitin, but Google is amazing for drafts.