Google Docs Gets New Suggest Edit Feature

Inserting a comment into a document is a great collaborative feature of Google Apps —it allows participants to carry on a discussion about a potential change. However, sometimes you just want to suggest a change in wording. With the Suggest Edits feature, you can highlight a piece of text and type in what you think the text to be (similar to Microsoft's Track Changes feature). Like comments, collaborators can comment on the suggestion, and when ready, accept the change.

You can find more from Google Help or watch the video below!

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Creating Virtual Office Hours with Google's Appointment Slots

As a Google Apps for Education (GAFE) university, Appointment Slots is an exciting feature that we get to enjoy that a personal Google Gmail user doesn't. For faculty, this is a great way to publish office hours so students can go online and pick a time slot. Note: both parties must be logged into their Google accounts. Using Appointment Slots in a Groupwise World Although access is available to Google Calendar, staff and faculty will continue to use Groupwise for their email and calendaring functions (Google Calendar does not sync to a user’s Groupwise calendar). Although you will have to maintain 2 calendars, this does not have to be complicated: when a student books a time, an email is sent to your Groupwise account you can have a daily agenda of your Google Calendar emailed to you You can access your Google calendar by logging into myportal.macewan.ca . From there, select Google Calendar from the launch pad on the left. (if that doesn’t work, you can always

Manage Your Work and Personal Google Profiles

If you're a personal Gmail user at work, you've probably run into a situation where you're visiting a Google resource and it asks for your to login using your MacEwan University credentials. To get back to your personal Gmail, you may have to again logout and log back in (or sometimes you're be asked to switch accounts ). A simple solution to this is to use Profiles in Google's Chrome browser. Basically, it's like having 2 different browsers - one for your personal account and one for your work account. This will help ensure that you keep those 2 worlds separate! Instructions for setup can be found here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en Tip When you setup the accounts, assign different icons and themes to each account so you can easily see which window is logged into which account. To find out how you can take advantage of Google Apps in your area, contact Trevor Beck ( beckt@macewan.ca ) at 780-497-5053.

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