Maricel Rodriguez Technology for Teaching and Learning 1

PCED-03-401A MH 10:30am-12:00pm

GOOGLE APPS VARIATIONS

GMAIL - Gmail (pronounced Gee-mail) is a free Web-based e-mail service currently being tested
at Google that provides users with a gigabyte of storage for messages and provides the ability to
search for specific messages. The Gmail program also automatically organizes successively related
messages into a conversational thread.

GOOGLE DRIVE - Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed
by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files on their servers,
synchronize files across devices, and share files. In addition to a website, Google Drive offersapps
with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones
and tablets. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which
are a part of an office suite that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets,
presentations, drawings, forms, and more. Files created and edited through the office suite are
saved in Google Drive.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM - Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for
schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way.
The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between
teachers and students.

Google Classroom ties Google Drive, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, and Gmail together to help
educational institutions go to a paperless system. Google Calendar was later integrated to help
with assignment due dates, field trips, and class speakers. Students can be invited to classrooms
through the institution's database, through a private code that can then be added in the
student's user interface or automatically imported from a school domain.Each class created with
Google Classroom creates a separate folder in the respective user's Google Drive, where the
student can submit work to be graded by a teacher.

GOOGLE DOCS - Google Docs is a word processor included as part of a free, web-
based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. This service also
includes Google Sheets and Google Slides, a spreadsheet and presentation program respectively.
Google Docs is available as a web application, mobile app for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry,
and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. The app is compatible with Microsoft
Office file formats. The application allows users to create and edit files online while collaborating
with other users in real-time. Edits are tracked by user with a revision history presenting changes.
An editor's position is highlighted with an editor-specific color and cursor. A permissions system
regulates what users can do. Updates have introduced features using machine learning, including
"Explore", offering search results based on the contents of a document, and "Action items",
allowing users to assign tasks to other users.

GOOGLE SHEETS - Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of a free, web-
based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. The service also
includes Google Docs and Google Slides, a word processor and presentation
program respectively. Google Sheets is available as a web application, mobile
app for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS.
The app is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats. The app allows users to create and edit
files online while collaborating with other users in real-time. Edits are tracked by user with a
revision history presenting changes. An editor's position is highlighted with an editor-specific color
and cursor and a permissions system regulates what users can do. Updates have introduced
features using machine learning, including "Explore", offering answers based on natural
language questions in a spreadsheet.

MICROSOFT WORD - MS Word is a popular word-processing program used primarily for

creating documents such as letters, brochures, learning activities, tests, quizzes and students'
homework assignments. There are many simple but useful features available in Microsoft Word
to make it easier for study and work. That's why so many people would prefer to convert the
read-only PDF to editable Word and edit PDF in Word.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT - Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, created

by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was
released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint
for $14 million three months after it appeared. This was Microsoft's first significant
acquisition, and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in Silicon Valley where
Forethought had been located. Microsoft PowerPoint is one of many programs run by the
company Microsoft and can be identified by its trademark orange, and P initial on the logo. It
offers users many ways to display information from simple presentations to complex multimedia
presentations.