Best New Stuff Added to Google Docs in 2009
Google has shed the beta label and added more than 45 new features to Google docs in 2009 including:
- Shared folders to simplify collaboration with friends and colleagues
- The Google Docs viewer, making it easy to view more files in your browser
- Templates, automatic and hierarchical navigation, monetization, maps, and photos in Google Sites
- Opening up the Public Template Gallery so everyone can share their templates with the world
- Logic branching, new themes, and more in Google forms
- Improved translation features in documents, spreadsheets and Google Sites
- Spreadsheet editing on mobile devices and sheet protection
- An easier way to give us your feedback and feature requests
- Improved consistency and better sharing emails across Google Docs
- Improvements to presentations, including co-editor presence, tables and better object control with drawings
- Features for the busy student just in time for back to school
I have been using Google docs in my classes for sharing files with my students; receiving student work, editing it, and sharing my feedback with students; allowing students to easily conduct peer review and collaborate with each other; and maintaining all the docs I want to be able to access from just anywhere there is internet access without carrying a flash drive (like my classroom). No glitches so far. What a breakthrough this has been for managing my courses. Try it–you’ll like it!