use Google Slides to create certificates
Quick tips to make your life easier
Spelling, Grammar, and the Magic of “Add to Dictionary”
There are few things more frustrating than typing an email, report, newsletter, or blog post only to have your computer aggressively underline a perfectly correct word in bright red. You stare at it. The computer insists it is wrong. You …
Jazz Up Certificates with Extensis Fonts
Have some fun with end of year certificates!
No More Supply Surprises: Get Organized Today
As a secretary or office administrator, you’re often the go-to person for supplies. Without a system, such as a central database, you’re stuck: A central database gives you: Step 1: Choose a Simple Tool You don’t need fancy software to …
Add a personalized signature to Gmail
Add a personal signature in Gmail – makes it easy for the recipient to know who sent the email, gives them a point of reference, and makes contact information readily available. An electronic business card! Scroll down to Signature under …
Create a G-mail template
Many times front office staff find themselves sending the same email to different people – think “canned response”. Creating a template in Gmail makes the task much easier to manage. Once G-mail is open, select +Compose and start typing the …
Create checklists with Google Docs
Create a checklist in Google Docs
Create dropdown menus in Sheets!
Scenario:Students have earned some extra Enrichment time! Using a shared Google Sheet, teachers are going to sign up their students, but all the data needs to be uniform in order to make lists, badges, etc., and most of all, easy …
School Websites- Consistency across the classes
She shoots…she scores! Sometimes we are so proud of the work that is produced in crunch situations – that we have to brag! Day 16 of the new school year; Superintendent wants EVERY teacher to have their own web page …
Making a case for Data Conventions/Consistency
When entering data for our schools (or any organization, really), consistency ensures clean data. For anyone who has had to extract data from a database, it is a painful reality that the only consistent rule about data entry is that …
