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For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.

100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

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Google Moderator makes it easy to gather and prioritize questions or opinions on any topic from a group of people.

Please take a moment to participate in the following: “What is your most pressing question about technology in our district?”

You need to have a Google Apps account to use this feature. You will need to sign in with your sapublicschools.com account after you click the above link.

If you are interested in an account, please fill out the form here.

Keeping group discussions or Q&A sessions focused on important topics can be difficult. Google Moderator will help keep things on track by allowing users to both suggest questions and vote on others’ questions.

Everyone has a chance to propose questions and the questions are collected in one place. Users can individually vote up or down on the questions they feel strongly about. Questions can then be addressed in popularity order, providing the best chance to answer the questions that the audience cares the most about.

It is flexible enough to be suitable for anything from a lecture to a team meeting or as a research tool to gather popularity-ranked feedback.

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Google Moderator makes it easy to gather and prioritize questions or opinions on any topic from a group of people.

Please take a moment to participate in the following: “What is your most pressing question about technology in our district?”

You need to have a Google Apps account to use this feature. You will need to sign in with your sapublicschools.com account after you click the above link.

If you are interested in an account, please fill out the form here.

Keeping group discussions or Q&A sessions focused on important topics can be difficult. Google Moderator will help keep things on track by allowing users to both suggest questions and vote on others’ questions.

Everyone has a chance to propose questions and the questions are collected in one place. Users can individually vote up or down on the questions they feel strongly about. Questions can then be addressed in popularity order, providing the best chance to answer the questions that the audience cares the most about.

It is flexible enough to be suitable for anything from a lecture to a team meeting or as a research tool to gather popularity-ranked feedback.

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On Tuesday, the company unveiled Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. With it, users don’t have to switch from the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for calendar, contacts, and e-mail functions. They can continue to use Outlook while connecting directly to Google’s servers. It eliminates the need for an Exchange mail server to be in the loop.

Google Unveils Potential Exchange Killer — Campus Technology.

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