Organizing Group Work in Google Apps

google-apps-iconNCSU students report that one of the ways faculty could improve online courses is through building in more student-­student activities (DELTA, 2015). While group work can be daunting for online faculty, there are many tools that can make it an effective use of students’ (and your) time. Google Drive contains multiple applications that are useful for group work in online classes. The most frequently used include Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Maps.Google Apps offers numerous advantages for teaching and learning, including extensive sharing options, collaboration capabilities with editing and commenting features, an autosave feature and 30 GB of storage, viewable revision history, and core apps already integrated with Unity accounts (Gracieux & Giro, 2014).

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