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Still downloading files from Canva just to turn around and upload them to Google Drive or OneDrive? 😩 You’re doing extra work! Here’s a Canva shortcut that can save you a whole lot of clicking! 🙌 You can send your Canva designs DIRECTLY to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive without the

Why does Google Drive keep opening THERE?! 🤦‍♀️ If you’re tired of Google Drive opening to Home when you’d rather see your folders in My Drive, here’s a Google Drive trick you’ll love! ⚙️ Open Settings → Settings → Start page, then choose Home or My Drive. ✅ Home = Suggested and recently used files ✅ My

Why does Google Classroom make you scroll past EVERYTHING just to find your classes?! 😩 Here’s a simple Google Classroom trick every teacher should know! You can customize your Google Classroom homepage by collapsing the sections you don’t need, bringing your classes front and center. 🙌 Even better?

Wait…Google Gemini can make interactive classroom games?! 🤯🎮 Teachers, this is one AI trick you’ll want to SAVE! Using Gemini Canvas, you can create custom drag-and-drop learning activities for your students. And the best part? You can share them directly to Google Classroom! 🙌 Less time building

Google Forms FINALLY did it! 🤯🙌 Teachers, you can now automatically close a Google Form without having to remember to go back and turn off responses! ✅ Set a specific date and time to stop accepting responses ✅ Set a maximum number of responses and let the form close automatically Perfect for

What if your students actually WANTED to write?! 🤯✍️ Meet WeWillWrite, a classroom writing game that turns creative writing into a team competition! 🎮 Students tackle quick writing challenges, share their creativity, and vote on their favorite responses. It’s a fun way to get even reluctant

🚨 Google Slides just got a MAJOR Gemini upgrade, and teachers, this one’s a game-changer! 🤯 Remember when AI-generated slides were basically just images you couldn’t easily edit? NOT ANYMORE! 🙌 With Gemini in Google Slides, you can generate presentations with fully editable text, layouts, and

50,000 FOLLOWERS?! 🤯💜🧡 Well, apparently there are a LOT more edtech nerds out there than we thought. 😂 What started as two nerds sharing technology tips, teaching ideas, and the occasional ridiculous moment has turned into a community of 50,000 incredible humans. Whether you’ve been here since

Teachers, did you know your students can turn their Google Classroom materials into their own personalized study notebook?! 🤯📚 Kris is taking us inside the STUDENT view of Google Classroom to show how students can use Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) to create a notebook using resources their teacher

🚨 Teachers, STOP downloading and re-uploading your Google Drive files! Did you know Google Drive has a desktop app?! 🤯 With Google Drive for desktop, you can access your files directly from your computer, work with them in familiar apps, and automatically sync changes back to Google Drive. ✅

POV: You open the TCEA 2027 Featured Presenter announcement and suddenly recognize those two nerds. 😭🎉 We are SO excited to be heading to San Antonio as TCEA💡 Supporting Educators 2027 Featured Presenters! 🤖 Dear AI: Please Handle This Nonsense So I Can Teach 🧘‍♀️💻 Five Pillars for Teaching

Well THIS was a pretty exciting announcement. 🎉 Kris and I are officially Featured Presenters at TCEA💡 Supporting Educators 2027 in San Antonio! And apparently we’re covering both ends of the EdTech spectrum. 😂 🤖 Dear AI: Please Handle This Nonsense So I Can Teach 🧘‍♀️ Five Pillars for

You’ve already got a presentation clicker in your pocket. 📱🤯 When you’re presenting in Canva, open the More menu and choose Share remote control. Scan the QR code with your phone and suddenly you can control your slides without being chained to your computer. Perfect for teachers, trainers,

Ever try to tap exactly where you want the cursor on your iPhone… and somehow end up three words away? 😅 Here’s the easier way: press and hold the space bar and your keyboard turns into a trackpad so you can slide the cursor exactly where you want it. It’s one of those tiny iPhone tricks that

Mac users: you can stop uploading your photos to random converter websites. 🤯 If you have an HEIC image you need as a JPG, just right-click it in Finder → Quick Actions → Convert Image → JPEG. That’s it. No website. No extra app. No emailing the photo to yourself and hoping for the best. 😂 Save

Your standards can live right inside Google Classroom. 🤯 When you create an assignment, you can tag learning goals, choose the standards set you need, and connect the assignment directly to the specific standard you’re teaching. No more hunting down the standard later when you’re trying to

You know when you have the PERFECT graphic…except one word needs to change? 😩 You may not have to recreate the whole thing anymore. With Google Pics, you can click text that’s already inside an image and EDIT it. 🤯 You can change the actual wording or even adjust the text style. This could be

Stop opening a new tab every time you want to check a link. 👀 In Google Docs, hover over a hyperlink and use Preview to see the page without leaving your Doc. No new tab. No bouncing back and forth. No “wait…which tab was I in?” 😂 It’s a tiny Google Docs feature, but those are sometimes the ones

Your 37 open Chrome tabs just got a LOT easier to manage. 👀 You can now move your tabs from the top of Chrome to a vertical sidebar — but don’t stop there. Kris shows you how to: ↔️ Resize the tab sidebar ⬅️ Collapse it when you need more screen space ➡️ Expand it when you want to see your full

Creating the rubric is only half the story. 👀 Here’s what actually happens when you USE a rubric in Google Classroom — from what the student sees when they submit their assignment to how the teacher can grade the work using the rubric right inside Classroom. If you’re trying to make grading a

You already made the rubric. Why are you building it AGAIN? 😩 If your rubric already exists in a document, Google Classroom can help turn it into a Classroom-ready rubric when you’re setting up your assignment — which means less copying, less clicking, and a whole lot less retyping. 🙌 This is

Teachers… your keyboard might be slowing you down. 👀🎤 Google Docs has built-in Voice Typing, so instead of typing everything out, you can TALK and let Google Docs do the typing for you. Go to Tools → Voice typing, click the microphone, and start talking. Think lesson plans, parent communication

Teachers… if your hands and wrists are DONE after a full day of typing, clicking, grading, and answering emails, you’re not alone. 👩‍💻✋ We tried the HANDexer Digital Hand Dynamometer to see just how strong our teacher hands actually are. 😂 This digital grip strength tester gives you an instant

Your students can have an AI study partner built around what YOU’RE actually teaching. 🤯 Inside Google Classroom, teachers can create a custom Gemini Gem, choose the Study Partner template, connect class materials, customize the instructions, and give students an AI-powered resource designed

Teachers, if you’re constantly collecting information, registrations, responses, sign-ups, surveys… you might want to put Jotform on your radar. 👀 We’re giving you a quick intro to what it can do and why we think it has a LOT of potential for teachers, schools, and administrators. Want to explore

Ever shared a Google file and then realized someone edited your ORIGINAL? 😩 Here’s the Google Workspace trick every teacher should know: force a copy. Change the end of your Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets URL to /copy and anyone who opens the link will be prompted to make their own copy first.

Apparently Google Keep has been quietly volunteering to do our retyping for us. 🤓 Add a picture to a Keep note, use Grab image text, and Google Keep pulls the words from the image so you can edit, copy, or reuse them. I used it with a recipe I wanted to change, but think about the teacher

Your 9½-minute video may not actually need to be 9½ minutes. 👀 In ScreenPal’s online video editor, we opened the transcript, searched for filler words and deleted them all… then searched for silences and deleted those too. Four clicks later: 9:30 ➡️ 5:30. 🤯 No hunting through the timeline for

In case no one told you today: you’re allowed to have seasons where things feel messy, heavy, or a little broken. ✨ Glow sticks don’t shine until they crack a little either. So if you’re in the middle of becoming, rebuilding, resetting, or just trying to make it through the week… keep going. Your

You’re already creating the assignment… you might as well attach the standard while you’re there. 👀 Google Classroom lets teachers add standards directly to assignments, making it easier to keep your lessons, activities, and assessments connected to what students are actually supposed to be

Your Google Docs don’t all have to look the same. 👀 Changing the page color in Google Docs can give students an instant visual cue for group work, assignments, assessments, stations, differentiation, class periods… whatever system makes sense in your classroom. It takes about 5 seconds: File →

You’re copying hyperlinks in Google Docs the hard way. 👀 If text is already linked, you don’t have to carefully highlight it, right-click it, or go hunting through menus. Just hover over or click on the linked text → click Copy link → done. It’s such a tiny Google Docs trick, but these are exactly

This Seancheer mini bag sealer might be the teacher snack-drawer gadget I didn’t know I needed. 😂 We tested this portable heat sealer on an open snack bag to see if it could actually reseal it — and yep, it worked. Perfect for chips, snacks, classroom treats, travel, pantry organization, or

If you have students who understand the content better when they can hear it AND see the words at the same time, save this one. 👀🔊 Hearald is a Chrome extension that reads webpages aloud while highlighting each word as it goes — which makes it a really simple addition to your accessibility,

Your browser doesn’t need to look like a digital junk drawer. 😂 If you’re constantly bouncing between Google Classroom, your gradebook, lesson resources, email, Slides, Forms…and the other 32 tabs you swear you still need…try Tab Groups in Google Chrome. Group related tabs together, give them a

You picked a number… now you have homework. 😂👇 1. Canva: Open Magic Studio and try one feature you’ve been ignoring — Magic Grab, Magic Edit, Magic Write, whatever catches your eye. 2. Diffit: Grab something you already teach and use Diffit to create a differentiated version for a different

Teachers, sometimes the email you want to send and the email you should send are two very different emails. 😅 So get the frustration out first. This Gemini prompt lets you brain-dump what happened, how you’re feeling, and what you really want to say — then helps turn it into a calm, professional

Back-to-school teacher brain already at capacity? 😵‍💫 Differentiation doesn’t have to mean creating a completely different lesson for every student. Diffit for Teachers is one of our favorite tools for quickly adapting content and creating resources that help you meet learners where they

The YouTube link alone wasn’t enough. 👀 I asked Gemini to turn a YouTube video into fill-in-the-blank structured notes for students, but it needed a little more context first. The fix? Grab the video transcript, paste it into Gemini, and THEN ask it to build the student activity. 🙌 This is

Teachers, before you rebuild your syllabus from scratch this year… Google Docs has a tool for that. 👀 Go to Tools → Compare documents and Google Docs can compare two versions of a document and show you exactly what changed. Use it to: ✨ Compare last year’s syllabus to this year’s ✨ Make sure

Teachers…how many times have you typed basically the SAME parent email? 😅 Try this instead: 📄 Create ONE Google Doc 🗂️ Make a separate tab for each email template you use ✏️ Update them whenever you need to 📧 Use the email building block in Google Docs ➡️ Hit the Gmail button and your draft

Teachers…Google Forms can help you build the quiz now. 👀🤯 Kris found the Gemini button hiding in the top corner of Google Forms (Ed Plus license), and it can help you create quiz questions without starting from a completely blank form. That means less time building the form…and more time actually

Google Classroom just gave teachers a MUCH better way to give feedback. 👀🎙️🎥💻 Instead of typing out another giant private comment, you can record audio, video, OR your screen right inside Google Classroom. Sometimes it’s faster to say it. Sometimes students need to see it. And sometimes your

You hit send. And THEN you see the file you forgot to attach. 😳 Teachers, give yourself a little more room for those “WAIT!” moments. In Gmail: ⚙️ Settings → See all settings → General → Undo Send → change the cancellation period to 30 seconds Now you’ve got a bigger window to hit Undo before that

You’re officially done typing the date into Google Sheets. 📅🙌 These tiny keyboard shortcuts are the kind of Google Sheets tricks that don’t seem life-changing…until you start using them ALL the time. 📅 Insert the date ⏰ Insert the time 📅⏰ Or quickly add both Save this one because you will

Canva keeps adding AI features… and these two are worth learning. ✨ Magic Grab lets you pull an object out of an image and move it wherever you want. 🎨 Magic Edit lets you replace or change parts of an image with a simple prompt. Both can save a ridiculous amount of editing time. If you love

You don’t need to read every email anymore. If you use Gmail for work, Google’s built-in AI can summarize your inbox, answer questions about your emails, and help you find what actually matters. We’ve been testing it, and it’s one of those features that’s easy to overlook—but once you start using

Your inbox doesn’t have to be a graveyard of newsletters you meant to unsubscribe from six months ago. 😅 Gmail has two easy ways to see your subscriptions in one place and start cleaning them up without digging through individual emails. 📧 Method 1: Change the end of your Gmail URL from # “inbox”

Your inbox doesn’t have to look like a digital junk drawer. 📬 A few Gmail filters + labels can automatically organize emails before you ever read them—and color coding makes it even easier to find what matters. This is one of those tiny changes that saves time every single day. 💬 Comment GMAIL if

Your brain isn’t lazy… it’s just bored. 😉 Instead of staring at a giant to-do list, turn it into a Bingo card. ✅ One task per square. 🎯 Work toward a row, column, or blackout. 🏆 Every bingo earns a small reward (coffee, a walk, 10 minutes with a book, an episode of your favorite show… you