“This checklist is designed to aid schools in updating and creating professional school websites to meet student, family and community needs, while addressing ADA accessibly standards.”
Tech Toolkit for Families and Guardians
A toolkit for educators that helps them share resources about Google’s technology with families and guardians.
Tips for giving direct instruction to small groups
An article with tips for whether students are in the classroom or learning at home.
Teaching Strategies of Award-Winning Online Instructors
An article that makes the case and shares tips for supporting teachers to use a variety of formats–video, audio, reading, and interactive content—to make classes more accessible and engaging.
Google app tutorials for teachers
Tutorials on both practical features such as parent settings and fun, engaging features such as drawing, backgrounds, and pop-up messages.
Google app tutorials for students and families
Tutorials on both practical features such as parent settings and fun, engaging features such as drawing, backgrounds, and pop-up messages.
Teq’s Otis for Educators
Offers free, high-quality online professional development courses for educators and school leaders to help them implement distance learning.
The Ultimate Guide to Distance Learning for Educators
This article on configuring your distance learning tech stack is based on the webinar How to Set Your Class Up for Distance Learning Success, which shows when and how to use these three types of resources effectively: (1) Existing digital classroom platforms; (2) Screen video capture and (3) Conference platforms
Essentials for Teaching Your Class Online
A free recording of a 5-part online course – taught by Stanford Online High School instructors – on the essentials of online teaching including: general guidelines for adapting your course to an online format; best practices for varied situations and common pitfalls in online course design; and how to troubleshoot student issues online.
Google Classroom Style Guide
Recommendations for Google Classroom settings are accompanied by rationales and other options for your consideration.