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

If you’ve been waiting for the “perfect” time to create an online course… this is your sign to stop overthinking it. 🙋‍♀️ Your course doesn’t need Hollywood production quality. It needs to be helpful. We’re partnering with ScreenPal at the Learning Innovation Summit to share practical strategies