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Speaker: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Dana Thompson: So we're going to talk about not just using Google-- OK, thank you. That's good to know. Not just using Google Classroom type functionality, but how can you-- if you're creating resources in Google, how you can easily use Canvas to provide access and share with your students.

So there's going to be a couple of different ways that we do this, depending on how your system is set up. So whether you have student generated emails that are given by your district to the students or if they're accessing by personal, I'm going to show you the different ways that you can use Google and not have to create things more than once, because you create it once in Google, and then you provide access in Canvas instead of creating it in Google and then recreating it in Canvas. We don't need to do that extra work.

So if you have any questions, please do put those in the chat. And if I'm either going too fast or you need me to reshow something, please let me know because this can be a topic that-- well, it is a topic I want you to actually be doing this while we're working together. So if you have your Canvas open, and then maybe in another tab or in another window, have your Google Drive open as well.

So first, I want to go over the different Google-- they provide their email when they register. So, Chun Hee, are they all Google emails that they're providing, or do you have some people who are using maybe Yahoo, or Hotmail, or those kinds of things? Because--

Chun Hee McMahon: We were initially told that that has to be Gmail only. But then we found out it doesn't matter. As long as the email works where they go check, that worked. So--

Dana Thompson: OK. So when we're looking at the different ways that Google talks to Canvas and vice versa, we have a couple of things. There's a Google Cloud. And then there's the Google Assignments. So with Google Cloud, that's no longer-- that was the original way for several years that Google and Canvas were talking to each other.

And with the new Google Assignments 1.3, that came about a year and a half ago, right around the end of the pandemic. That is becoming the standard way of having your Google and your Canvas talk to each other.

But you can still do some things with the Google Cloud. I just want to make sure that you all understand that that is no longer supported by Google. And so if something's not working, there's nobody on Google's help side to help troubleshoot that. But I'm going to show you the difference between those.

But regardless of whether you're using the Google Cloud, which is just basically saying take this document and show it in Canvas, both methods allow you to-- if you have a resource, or a slide deck, or a Google Doc, or a Google Sheets that you can pull that information and display it in Canvas, which allows you to keep your students in Canvas and not have them try and go find things out in the Google Drive, which sometimes they get lost and then can never find their way back.

So embedding in the RCE. The RCE is our Rich Content Editor in Canvas. And I'm going to show you how you can take a Google item and embed that into Canvas using just-- whether your students have Google or not, it provides them access.

We can do the same with Modules, embedding these things in our Modules so that it shows up in our course flow. Remember, Modules is the only place that you can put things in a certain order and have those Previous and Next buttons show up so that the students go through your course or your resources sequentially. Modules is what controls that. And we can put in our Google items in the Modules so that it shows up in that course progression for students.

Collaboration is available. And I'll show you that's a great place when you want to have your students collaborate. But you want to be the one that creates the Google items so that you're the owner, and then have your students collaborate on it. And I'll show you how to set that up.

Students can receive a copy of Google Doc, a slide, or a sheet to work on. And just like if you're familiar with Google Classroom, the same concept where you make the template. It copies it out to all of your students so that they can work on their own version of it.

And Assignments will create folders for the students as well as for you so that they don't have to be in Canvas to see the items. They can log into Google and see the items in their Google Drive. And right now we cannot use Canvas groups or peer review.

So if you on your assignment submission details you have the option of choosing a Canvas group or a peer review, Google items will not share. You can still provide them as a resource. But it does not facilitate that collaboration or peer review functionality. That has to be Canvas native.

So the difference between Google Cloud and Google Assignments is, again, if you're familiar with the Google Classroom process, Google Assignments 1.3 is basically that same process that Google walks you through. But you access it through Canvas. And so I'm going to show you how that works.

This one is supported by Google. And it is covered by the Google Workspace for Education, which is the way that Google sets up with student emails and teacher emails and being a part of the same organization instance so that it will talk with Canvas on both sides.

So a lot of today is going to be me showing you and you trying it out. So I'm going to go ahead and jump over to a course in Canvas that I have. And I have a couple of-- I have a lot of items in here to show you, demonstration that I've set up in my module.

And if you can see, I've got a Canvas page, followed by a Google item that I've linked or embedded in my Module, followed by a Canvas Assignment. So again, Modules are the only place where you can put things in a sequential order for your students to work through. And that does include the items from Google directly into Canvas modules.

So I'm going to show you first how we're just going to share resources with our students. So the purpose of this is to give them a handout you would like them to read, or a slide deck you would like them to look through, or a Google Doc that has information.

You've created it in Google. And you don't want to recreate it in Canvas, so you're going to embed it or bring it in. So this is an example of a Google Slides embedded in a page. So where would this be helpful? So say you have a presentation, your lecture, so to speak, and you want your students to be able to access your slide deck at home when they're working on the assignments or at a later date or maybe they were absent.

So I'm going to come all the way down here. This is just some, some screenshots that I've put together. But in order to embed a slide deck inside Canvas, we have to do something in Google first.

So I'm going to come over here to my Canvas and Google presentation. And I'm going to get out of presenter mode. And I'm going to come over here to File. And I'm going to share this presentation by publishing it to the web. So I'm not just sharing it with specific people, I'm not just sharing it with my students. But it doesn't mean that people are going to steal your slides. It just means that we're going to make it so that Canvas and Google can talk to each other without any barriers.

So I'm going to click on Publish to web. And I hope you can see the pop-up box. It's going to ask me, do I want to share it as a link, or do I want to share it as an embed? I'm going to choose embed.

And when I choose embed, I get this code down here, which unless you know HTML, it's not going to make any sense to you. But that's OK. You just click on that code and right-click and copy it or Control-C to copy.

And then I'm going to come down and-- I have to change my window view just a little bit. So it's published to the web. And now I'm going to come out. It's not letting me save it. Let me see if I can go smaller. There we go. So this code here, it says press Control-C to copy. If you're on a Mac, it will be Command.

And now, once I've published that code, I'm going to come back here to Canvas. I'm going to open up my page that I want my slide deck to be embedded in. I'm going to come down here and put my cursor right here. Your slide deck will appear on the page. I'm going to have it appear right here where my cursor is. And because I copied an embed code, in Canvas, I'm going to insert embed.

And in this embed code, this is where I'm going to paste that code that I copied from Google. And now I'm going to click on Submit. And so now when I save this page and I scroll down to where I inserted my slides, here are my slides right inside Canvas. My students never have to leave. And they can click through my slide deck right here in Canvas without ever leaving.

And the reason why I like doing this is because, as you can see, I've given context above it. And then I've embedded the slideshow. So sometimes that's better than just linking your slides in the Modules, and then they're opening up the slides and there's no context around why they're looking at the slides, or is there a due date, or those kinds of things.

So you can create a page, put in context, or instructions, or expectations, and then link your slide deck or embed your slide deck after those expectations. And then if I continue scrolling down, you can see I have resource down here. So you can even add content beneath the slide deck as well.

And so again, this page is inside of a module. So if you think of a module as a desk drawer, as a filing cabinet, the Module is the filing cabinet drawer. And inside that drawer are your Canvas pages, assignments, discussions, quizzes, and links to outside things out on the internet. Those are all inside your Canvas Module or inside your drawer of your filing cabinet.

So if I come over here and look at my Modules, that's this page right here, Embed your Google Slides in a Page. Now, you can see here Embed your Slides in a Module as an External URL. So I'm going to take a look at this.

And this is funky. So this is a different slide deck. But you can see I have the slide and then I have the view over here of all the different slides. So this is not in presentation mode. This is in that edit mode.

And so this is putting your slides in a module as an external URL. Again, you have to have your Publish to the web setting set. And remember, your URL is this share link over here.

So if you were doing a slide deck where you wanted your students to be able to come in and-- these are great for EduProtocols if you know about EduProtocols, where it's like claim a slide and do the tasks on it, do your popcorn reading strategy or something like that. But each student claims a slide. And all your students are working on the same slide deck.

So in that case, what you need to do-- and this is very important-- on the share settings, you need to make sure that instead of restricted that everyone with the link-- and this can be the scary part. Instead of viewing, I want it to be editor because I want my students to edit my slide deck. I want them to add the information to the slide that they chose.

So this is a collaborative, interactive activity that I'm providing access to in Canvas. But they're going to be doing the work as a group on one master slide deck in Google. So now I'm going to copy that link. And I'm going to click on Done.

And I'm going to come back here to Canvas. And I'm going to come back to my Modules because I'm providing-- remember, I'm going to do an embed your slides in the Modules as an external URL. So I'm going to come over here to the my module and click on my plus sign.

And actually what I'm going to do, I'm going to create a new module so that we-- this is going to be my demo module. That way, I'm not messing up my progression. So I'm going to come down to my demo module. And I'm going to add to this module. Remember, you can add Canvas items, or I can come all the way down here. Second to the bottom, it says External URL.

So I'm going to add this external URL. URL means website. And I'm going to paste my Google Slides share link under URL. And that slide link is not going to make it-- is not going to mean anything to the student, so I'm going to actually give this a page name. This is going to be our Collaborative Activity for March 4 so that that is what they'll see to click on.

So you want your page name to indicate what it is they're clicking on. And you can load it in a new tab, you can indent it, all of those things. And so now when I add this item, here's that collaborative activity for March 4.

I need to make sure that I publish my module and my link that's in there so that my students will see it. And the nice thing about this is as a student, they will come in and click on that link. And it will load that slide deck into their Canvas page where they could come now and work on it, do that collaborative activity.

And if they're on a device that's really small, all they have to do-- and this is something you'll just have to teach them-- is they can click on the name of the activity in this gray bar. And it will pop it out into its own window. And so now they have a bigger area to work because it's not inside of Canvas. And they don't have to type in the address because you've given them access inside of Canvas.

So what I'd like to do is give you a minute. Let's practice that. Find a Google item. So if I come out to my Google Drive, I have all of these items. And so maybe I want to put in this the power of Blockchain. This is a Google slideshow that I've created for my computer science.

And you can see here that I want my students to read and take notes, or this one down here, I want them to answer this question, cite some evidence, and explain. So this is an interactive slide deck that I want them to have access to.

So first steps. So I'm reviewing now as I'm going to File, Share, Publish to web. And I'm going to click on Embed and Publish. And then it'll show that link. I have to publish it first, and then that link will show. And then I'm going to copy that link.

And I'm going to come back to Canvas, come down to my demo module. And because I copied the embed link, I'm going to embed that on a page. So I'm reviewing right now. So I'm going to create a new page in Canvas, just like I would create any other Canvas page. And I'm going to title it the Power of Blockchain and add that to my module.

I like adding things for modules. You might go to your Index page and add from there. That's fine too. And once I come into my Power of Blockchain and go into the Edit mode, I can add my context, review the slides-- the reading on the slides and follow the directions for completion. Work with a partner or alone. So I've given them context.

And then I'm going to insert that embed code. Paste that right there. And now this is just the slide deck that they can look through. This does not give them the editing rights yet because it's just embedded the slideshow itself.

So the embed code puts it on a-- embeds it in Canvas so that they can review it. Let's look at that. Here we go. So there's my slide deck. They can click through it and review the reading. But in order for them to work on this slide deck, that's where I'm going to give them access in Modules as a link because I want them to go into not the presentation mode, but the edit mode.

So this same slide deck, instead of the embed code, now I'm going to come over here to the Share button and copy this link. Marian, did you want to ask a question about that process. You're muted. Unmute. Yeah, that's OK.

So, Michael, that's a great question. And when we get to the LTI-- right now I'm just working with Google items and bringing them into Canvas for those people who do not have the LTI because the Google LTI only works if your school provides school email addresses to your students. If your school does not provide those email addresses, then-- yes, I'm going to right now. Then you have to go through this method because the LTI won't work. So I'm showing both ways. Yeah.

OK. So I'm back to-- you're welcome. I'm back to my slide deck. And this time I want to give them access to edit the slides. So again, I have to make sure that I'm sharing my slide deck. And instead of restricted, I'm going to share with anyone with the link and from viewer to editor. That way, if I just give them view access, they see it. But they can't do anything. Learning tool integration is one. It's short for learning tool integration. It's basically how Canvas and Google, those are both learning tools. It's how they integrate.

OK. So anyone with the link is an editor. And I'm going to copy that link. And I'm going to come back to my Canvas, Modules so that I can put this version that I want them to edit in my module.

So I'm going to come here. And instead of embedding it on a page, I'm going to add it with the plus sign to my module as an external URL. And then I'm going to paste that there. And this is going to be my Blockchain Activity Slides.

So you can see that it added it as a link. And basically all that's doing is saying, I want my students to access my slide deck so that they can edit. But I don't want them to have to try and find it in Google. And I don't want to have them type it in because it's this really long address URL that they're never going to get right.

So instead, I'm just giving you the link right here. And so when they click on that link, it opens it up. And now they have access to these slides on the side where they can come in and edit and add their content. And if this is too small, then they click on the Blockchain Activity Slides title up here to pull it out into its own window.

So again, this is for people who even if you have the Google 1.3 enabled, you cannot provide-- you can't use it like Google Classroom, unless your students have the same email that you do. So dthompson@scoe.net. I can only use the Google with other students at scoe.net.

So if your students are accessing Canvas and all of your resources with their personal Gmail or even without a Gmail, then what I'm doing right now is how you're going to provide that access. So I'm going to come back to Modules. So again, I can embed it in a page so they just have access to the slides, or I can link it as an external URL so that they have the ability to open that up and work on those Google Slides. And that's the same for Google Docs as well.

So if I come back to my Google Drive and I have this demo content Google Doc, I'm going to open this up. And I want my students to read this. There's no interaction on it. I just want them to read it. But instead of redoing it in Canvas, what I need to do is make sure that I've shared it so that anyone with the link can view.

So they're not modifying this, so they just need to view it. And under File and Share, I can publish to the web. Correct. Well, so there's two things in that, Marion. We want to make sure that anybody who has the link can view here. And we then also need to publish it to the web so that they can access it, whether they have Gmail or not.

So I'm going to publish that to the web. And here's a link. I'm going to do the embed code again. I'm going to click on Embed and click on Publish, click on OK. And there's that HTML code. So I'm going to copy that and come back to Canvas. And I'm going to add that dock just like I did.

So I'm going to come in and create a new page. And this is going to be my Demo Content Google Doc. So when you're embedding using that HTML code, you're going to embed it in a page, or in an assignment, or a discussion, anywhere that you have the Rich Content Editor.

So here's that page that I'm going to go in and edit. And you might ask, well, why don't I just link out to Google instead of-- and you can. But sometimes you don't want your students to leave Google. And this is a little too small. So this is not my favorite way to do Google Docs. But there's another way that I'm going to show you in just a minute. But that is one way.

The other way, if I come back to my Google Doc, because it said here the iframe is too small, but if I come back and get my share link-- yes, Lynette, I'm going to do this again. Like I said, Google Docs are not friendly when you're embedding through the publish. But let's take a look at the copy link. Yeah. Right.

And that's the security. So that's why when we're in Google, and the same with Microsoft, is you want to make sure that when you're sharing it, you're sharing it so that anyone with the link. My other choice is anybody who's at Sacramento County Office of Education or restricted. And I'm giving specific access to people.

But if it's something where you just need-- if they're in your class and they're accessing with their personal emails, you're going to do anyone with the link to avoid having any kind of block, and then copy that link.

So coming back here. I'm going to come back to my Canvas. And I hid some slides in here. It's actually in my Canvas. Let me come back to Modules because I want to show you the Google Docs. So embed your Google Docs in a page. This has screenshots, so it might be a little bit easier to follow.

So what I did before was I used the Google Cloud-- not the Google Cloud, the insert embed the Cloud. But when you're using docs, you're going to use the plugin. And that actually looks like a little plug. And then when you do that, you'll notice that here's that same document that I tried to and it didn't look very good. Here's that same document embedded using the plugin.

And so when I come back to Modules, let me show you what that looks like. So again coming down. And this will be a little bit easier. I'm going to go into Edit. And instead of the cloud, which is this one right here-- I'm not going to do that one-- I'm going to do this little plug right here.

And I'm going to view all. And you can see that here I have the LTI 1.3. So this is where we are using that connection. It knows that I'm dthompson@scoe.net. So I'm going to go ahead and say, yes, that's true. It might ask you to verify again. And I opened up in another window. But basically what it's showing me is my Google Drive.

And now I can choose that content and add it just as if I were in a Google Classroom. And here it is there. Now, I know because it doesn't show you my pop-ups did it. No. OK. Karin, go ahead and ask your question. I'm going to stop sharing and share a different way so that you can see what I see. You're muted. Oh, go ahead. Now I hear you.

Karin De Varennes: Thanks. I just want to clarify that with using the Google Doc, you can't use Immersive Reader, right?

Dana Thompson: That's true. Even in the embed, it does not see-- the Immersive Reader only works on Canvas-native items. OK, so now I have to move this over. So now you should see. I'm restructuring. OK. So here's my page. So let me show you that so that you can see all the pop-ups that came up and all of that. So I'm going to get rid of that. Backspace. OK.

So when you're using-- if you have the HTML code like we did with our web-- with our Google Slides, then you're going to insert, embed. But with Google Docs and even with Google Slides, I'm going to come over here and use my plugin instead.

If you don't see it here, then when you click on View All, these are all items that your district has enabled on their Canvas instance. You can see that there's several on here. Google Drive is what we're working with today.

So now you see that it's asking me to select a file from my Google Drive. So I'm going to select a file. And then this window comes up. And these are all the items in my Google Drive. And basically what it's doing is saying, OK, I'm going to take that file, or that slide, or that spreadsheet. And I'm going to show it in Canvas.

So let's take this Goal Setting worksheet. So I'm going to insert this Goal Setting worksheet and click on Add. And maybe this answers a question from previously. It does change the sharing permissions automatically.

So when I click on Attach, it's automatically going in and setting that Google Doc to anyone with the link can view. So here it is. And it's much cleaner than using the embed code. So I'm going to save and publish.

And now my students, they can't write on this right now because it's view only. But it's in Canvas. And they don't have to go out to Google to find it. And that's on a page. So embedding in a page, use that Google or that plugin to do the Google. They still can't access it to write on it. But they can view it without going outside of Canvas.

And I'm going to edit this so that it's-- this is actually my Goal Setting Google Doc example. And just like you could with slides, I can come in here. And I can say, after you set your main goal, share with your table partner. So I'm giving them extra context that's not on the Google Doc but will be part of the instructions on their Canvas page.

So I've shown you three things. And I want to give you time to try it. This one was just putting a link in here. This one was embedding a slide deck using the embed code into the Canvas page. And then this one is using the plugin to grab it from your drive. So you have to have a Google Drive if you're using the plugin, your students do not to view it.

When we get to Assignments, I'll show you how they need to have a Google Drive. But I'm going to give you-- let's come over here to Google. And we're going to set a 5-minute timer. And that way, I don't cut you short on your time. And you can go ahead and try one or all of those methods. And let me know in the chat if you have any questions.

And can Google Forms be embedded? Yes, Michael. And I'm going to show you that. I love embedding Google Forms. OK. So, Lorraine, if you don't have a Google Drive as an option for your plugin, did you click on View All, and you still don't see it? Then that needs to be enabled by your administrator. So whoever runs your Canvas instance, they need to enable it. So maybe a help ticket to get them to do that.

Michael Delaney: Dana, could I ask a question?

Dana Thompson: Sure.

Michael Delaney: So we're largely a Google school. And the students get Google accounts. And we have all the Google stuff in there. But there's a few teachers who like Microsoft. And so I know you can set it up all for OneDrive to link it all in. Would that just lead to complications? And then the students would also need a Microsoft account or?

Dana Thompson: So when it comes to just providing access to view it, no. It's going to work exactly the same. But if they wanted students to be able to get a template, or like I make the handout and then push it out to all of my students so that they have their own copy, then yes, they need to have a Microsoft account.

Same with Google. If I'm just giving them a handout that I want them to view in Canvas, then they don't need to have a Google account. But if I'm going to use Canvas and Google to create a master copy and then have it push out a copy for each student so they have their own, they have to have that Google Education workspace account. So it doesn't even work with-- if I signed up with my personal Gmail, it wouldn't work. It has to be a school account to do that.

And yes, I'm going to-- yes. I'm not going to let this get to the end because then you hear a siren. And it's really annoying. So coming back to Canvas. So, Marion, when you want my slides, do you want it to so that you-- I don't have anything on my slides. It's all in my Canvas course. It's all just examples. But what I do have-- got it.

So what I can do, if you are interested, is I can send you-- what I'll do is I'll post in the Canvas Commons. It may even already be there. I think I've done it once before where I have my course in there that has some of these examples that you can look at. But if not, at the end of this training, I'll put this one in Canvas Commons, and then you can download it into your course, of course.

So going back up here. So again, here's the link to the slides so that students can edit it. And so that, again, is not the prettiest. And it's really small. But they can always click on the link to open it up in a new window. And that is by sharing the share link in the module as an external URL.

So I'm going to show you the difference. Let me collapse all of these. So this is shared as an external URL. So I went to the plus sign and dropped down to external URL. This is great if you are working in Google and your students are not working in a school Google account, they're working in their personal Google or not Google at all. So this will provide them access to your files through Canvas so that they can review.

The other option is I can also use that external tool. Just like I did in the pages for my Goal Setting doc, I can also do that in modules. So if I click on the plus sign and instead of external URL, I choose external tool, remember that the tool is going to take you into your Canvas-- sorry.

The tool is going to take you into your Google Drive so that you can grab the file that you want to pull back into Canvas. That's what the tool does, whereas the URL is just providing a link just like a website to that other file.

So if I use external tool and I come down here and find my Google Drive tool-- and again, it's making sure, yes, this is the right account. And so now it's looking at my Google Drive again. So you can see I have all of these files that you've seen before.

So I'm going to come down here. And this one I'm going to-- we'll pull in the Goal Setting so that you can see the difference. So now I'm pulling it in as an external tool instead of just a link. And so I'm going to attach that file now. It looks like it didn't work. And I don't know why this happens, but it did. So I'm going to trust that it did and just click on Add Item to get out of this window.

And there's my Goal Setting Activity. And notice that it's as a link, not as a Canvas page. And so once I publish that for my students, when I click on this link, it is not in Canvas. It's pulling it from Google and showing it in Canvas.

So in this instance, I do not have the ability to add context around it. So if you take a look at the one that I embedded in a page previously, I have the ability to add the heading, the title of the page.

And I put instructions at the end because this I used in a page using the plugin, so I can still add more stuff around it, whereas if you're using in Modules, the external tool, all it's doing is going to pull in that Google item so that you can show it to your students without them having to log out or go outside of Canvas. But it doesn't give them the ability-- or it doesn't give you the ability to put information around it. But let that sink in.

Chun Hee McMahon: Dana, you mentioned that if we don't see all other to view in plugging in, who do we need to talk to?

Dana Thompson: Whoever is the person in charge of your Canvas instance. That's going to be your Canvas administrator. So for us, it's Marjorie.

Chun Hee McMahon: I see.

Dana Thompson: Yeah. And really what happens is-- and I don't know, you might be able to set it up yourself. I'm just going to show this real quick. If it's not something that you want to try and do, then don't. But if I come into my course Settings and I come over here to Integrations-- oh, no, sorry. It's Apps, not Integrations. It's under Apps.

I can take a look at-- I'm going to type in Google here. It did it not come. Yeah, so it looks like-- because I can see it right here. It's Google Assignments because my administrator enabled it. And I believe Google is one of those where your administrator has to enable it.

Chun Hee McMahon: I'm one of them for our school, so I don't even know.

Dana Thompson: Yeah. If you click on Apps and then you click on View App Configurations, if you don't see it in this list, then it hasn't been enabled. And you have to probably put in a help ticket.

Marion. You're muted. Yeah, I still don't hear you. Do you want to type it in the chat? Because I still don't hear you. Sorry. I don't know if your sound didn't connect.

I think she logged out. She's coming back in. So that's the difference between embedding your Google Doc in a page using the plugin or embedding your Google Doc as an external tool in your Canvas modules.

So now we have Forms. And like I said, Forms is one of my favorites. And the reason why I love putting Google items on pages, again, is because I can then surround that item with context. So here is a Google Form that I've created, that I've embedded into Canvas.

And notice that I have information above it. I've included screenshots. And then here's that Google Form. So this is an exit ticket. And I want my students to fill in this Google Form. And then when they're done, they click on Submit.

And why would I use a Google Form instead of a Canvas quiz or a Canvas survey? Say I have four different classes but I want all of their information in one spreadsheet so that I can grab that data from that one spreadsheet, then I'm going to use a Google Form because I can embed this Google Form in all of my other Canvas courses. And all of their answers will go to one place.

Oh, Marion, you tried to go through the process to embed a link. OK, let me show the form, and then I'll come back and show you that. So the way you're going to embed a form, there's a couple of ways. Again, this is in a page. And I like it in a page because then I can provide context so that my students understand why they're completing this form.

So I would come back to Modules. And I would come down to my Demo Module and add another page. And I'm going to create a new page called Google Form Exit Ticket.

OK, here's my page. And I'm going to open up my page and go into the Edit mode. And I can add my context here, whatever the things may be. So there's a couple of ways. So Google Forms, because they're meant to be used with people who don't have Google accounts, if I come in to my Drive and I come down here and I have this Google Form, it's an activity, what AI does well and what it does not do well.

I want my students to read this passage and then come down and answer these questions. This is going to be my exit ticket. So when you're creating a Google Form and you click on Send, see, you have the embed code right here. So when I click on-- I don't have to publish anything, so I'm going to click on the embed code. And I'm going to copy that code.

Now, what you do have to do is make sure that under your settings that you are not making it, so-- they changed it again. So under Presentation, I want to make sure that-- oh my goodness, they totally changed it again, the sponsors.

Here we go. I want my response. I'm not going to restrict it. So I'm going to turn this off so that it's open to anybody. Otherwise, it's only open to people in my organization. So I've turned that off. I've copied the embed code. And so now, because I copied the embed code, I'm going to insert the embed code.

So I copied the embed code. Now I'm going to insert the embed code. Now look at this. Here is the width and the height of my form. That height is going to make your students scroll forever. So I would come and change my height so it's no more than 800. But that's a lot smaller than this. I'm just going to change that to 800 right here in my embed code screen and click on Submit.

And so now that form if I save and publish is in my Canvas page. And yes, the students still have to scroll. But it's not making Canvas scroll forever. So they can come in here and complete this form. The information's go to my Google Form spreadsheet, not to my Canvas grades. So remember that. So Google Forms are great for surveys, for getting some global information. But if you want to attach a grade to it, I would do it as a Canvas quiz. So that's one way.

The other way if I come in here to Modules again is using that LTI. So here I am in my demo module. I'm going to add the plus sign. And I'm going to pull in that external tool. So copy the embed. Insert the embed. Use the external tool when you don't want the embed tool. So here's that Google Drive. And again, it's asking me to verify I am who I am.

And now here's that form. So I'm going to pull in this form and add it. And look at what it shows here. Right now forms cannot be embedded in Modules, so you have to go through that first way. So it doesn't mean that your Canvas is broken, it just means that it's not able to do that yet. So you can pull the link in. But then they click on the link and they go out to Google. If you want the form to be inside Canvas, then embed it. Copy the embed code. Insert the embed code.

OK. Yes. So, Michael, that 640 by 800 is good for any embed. Unless it's like a two-question form, then it might be a little long. But that's pretty if you think of 640 by 800 like a 3 by 4 picture-- portrait-size picture. Yeah.

So forms are a great way to-- and so far all we're doing is sharing our items. Have you ever been somewhere where they've given you a link to copy a Google Form automatically, so you click on the link and it says, do you want to make a copy? It's a really, really easy trick.

So if you wanted to force a copy so that they make their own copy in their Drive-- you're no longer the owner-- but you don't want them to mess up your master, there's a trick to do this. In order for it to work, the user must be signed into their Google account.

And this is great for those of you who do not have student Gmails. They're accessing with their personal Gmail. They still have to have a Gmail. So it won't work for those people with Microsoft accounts, or Yahoo, or anything. So they have to have a Gmail.

But what you're going to do is you're going to open up the item in your Google browser. So let's do this one. So again, because we're sharing it, we need to make sure that anyone with the link. And in this case, I'm going to change it to viewer. Oh, good. I'm glad, Marion. Sorry, I forgot to come back to you.

Marian Thacher: Nice.

Dana Thompson: Yeah. So I'm going to make sure that anyone with the link can view my file, not restricted. And then I'm going to click on Done. So then the second thing is you're going to copy the URL. So this is the actual URL website link, not the Share button. So I'm going to come back to my Google Slides. And I'm going to copy this one up here.

So Control-C. I'm not copying the share link. I'm copying the one up here in my URL. And then I'm going to open up my Canvas page, or I can even do this as an external URL where I want them to be able to click on the link. And then it's going to ask them if they want to make their own copy.

And so the trick is this, at the end of your URL, you have the word "edit" because you're the owner. You're going to change that so it's the word "copy" instead. So here I am. I'm going to come back to my Modules. And I'm going to come down here to my Demo Module.

And I'm actually going to add this straight to my module. So I'm going to click on the plus sign. And because I'm using the URL, I'm not using the tool. And I'm going to paste that link. And I'm going to use my arrow key to get to the very end. And I'm going to backspace until I find the word "edit" and keep going, and then type in the word "copy."

That's it. You go to the very end. And you backspace until you get to the word "edit." And then remove that too and replace it with the word "copy." And this is going to be Make a Copy of my Slides. So now I'm going to actually copy this so that-- well, that's not the one that you want. I can give you a different one.

So here's Make a Copy of my Slides. And I'm going to publish it so my students will see it. When they come in and click on this link in the modules, it's going to ask them-- this is not also broken. I'm glad this happened because I have found that Google is pretty picky. So it doesn't like you to make copies inside of Canvas. It wants you to open it up in a new window to make that copy. So I need to change this.