40 Edu-Tech Solutions with Free Google Tools

Have you ever considered deploying technology in the classroom- either as a classroom teacher or a school administrator? 

If you answer in the affirmative, how far have you gone in realizing that target?

Were you stuck with the technicalities and cost of running a tech-driven classroom? I know of many schools and teachers who are struggling to run a full tech-driven classroom just because they find it difficult dealing with the cost and technicalities of deploying the needed tools.

In my earliest years of pursuing a tech-driven classroom, I faced the same challenge, until I discovered Google tools for education. 

Today, as a proud Google Certified Educator, I can tell you that Google provides a suite of great tools that schools can deploy in driving a complete automation in their business, administrative, teaching and learning processes.

The beautiful thing about these Google tools is that they are free and easy to master.

In this post, I am going to share some selected Google tools with forty or more ways you can use these free tools to provide tech solutions (educational and business) in schools.

Selected Google Tools

1. §    Google Classroom
2. §    Google Sites
3. §    Google Mail
4. §    Google Drive
5. §    Google Sheet
6. §    Google Forms
7. §    Google Doc
8. §    Google Hangout
9. §    Google Chrome (browser)

 Business and Educational Solutions

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#1. Create an eCommerce site for your school products

One way schools can scale up their income base is by creating ecommerce stores to sell both physical and digital products. You can use a free Google tool to create ecommerce stores.

#2. Direct eBook sales without a third party

With some free Google tools, schools can market their eBooks and other digital products without going through a third party.

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#3. Event promotion/invitation

Schools can easily promote their events and invite parents and business partners to a program using free Google tools.

#4. Permanent database for staff

With a combination of some Google tools, keeping staff database becomes easier and safer. School administrators no longer need to search files endlessly. Staff database can be created once, to be secured permanently.

#5. Permanent database for students

Organize your students based on classes, gender etc and have them permanently saved for future retrieval.

#6. Classroom attendance register

With Google tools, teachers can automate their students’ daily attendance to class.

#7. Classroom subject timetable

Schools make use of timetable for different classes. With Google tools, every teacher can easily create one for his/her class.

#8. School financial budgeting

There are lots of free Google tool templates schools can use for their financial budgeting.

#9. Statistical analysis and reporting of students’ results

With these free Google tools, students’ results can easily be analyzed and reported in an easier way.

#10. Email collection for email campaign

Online businessmen understand the importance of list building for email/digital marketing and campaign. Do you know there are many free Google tools you can use for your email campaign?

#11. Customized worksheet for classroom assessment

Every teacher can create a customized classroom assessment with a combination of these free Google tools.

#12, Classroom poll

Teachers can engage their students on interactive sessions through classroom polls. Google free tools do this easily for you.

#13. Graphic games

Classroom games have become a very important part of the 21^st century teaching and learning. Use Google free tools to create graphic games for your students.

#14. Market survey

Conventional businesses as well as schools need to constantly engage in market survey so as to understand their potential clients’ tastes and preferences. Schools can easily save cost using these free Google tools.

#15. Creating folders for students’ files

With Google free tools, every teacher can create individual folder for each student’s files. This makes sorting students’ files easier.

#16. Creating folders for staff files

Every individual teacher’s files can be easily traced and sorted when schools create folders for each member of staff. You can easily do this with Google tools.

#17. Creating permanent folders for important files

There are so many executive and confidential files of schools that need to be well secure. Schools don’t need to break bank doing this. Simply use some free Google tools to secure your important files.

#18. Digital signature for school documents

With Google free tools, schools can append digital signature to each of their documents. And you know how great that can be.

#19. School event planning

Don’t waste papers planning for that school event. Google has free tools and customized templates to help you plan your events

#20. Create online courses

A lot of schools are already spending so much building online courses. But with free Google tools, you can achieve same as a school. Mind you! Every school needs to start creating online courses.

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#21. Run a full online school

Run a full online school and admit students with Google free tools. This include creating classes; assigning teachers, administering assessment and releasing results.

#22. Share every type of files with parents/guardians

Share files digitally to parents and clients using Google free tools. It’s safer and more cost-effective.

#23. Personalize files for privacy purposes

Schools can set permissions to their files using Google free tools. You choose who has access and who does not.

#24. Schedule classes outside the classroom

School time is never enough to give out all we have to our students. And there is no need muddling things up. Teachers can schedule classes with their students outside the classroom with one of Google’s free tool.

#25. Run a distance education with other students

With Google free tools, schools and/or individual teachers can expand their frontiers by running a distance education that admits other students across the globe.

#26. Hold meetings via videoconferencing

Hold staff and/or parents meeting a times via videoconferencing. This is very convenient for every party in this days of so many activities. Google provides the best free tools for videoconferencing.

#27. Peer-tutoring among students

Peer-tutoring is one of the most effective methodologies in achieving a learner-centred learning. Google has free tools that can help your students engage in peer-tutoring.

#28. Email signature for web traffic, product/event promotion

By using Google mail (Gmail), schools can easily create email signature to promote current events, product sales as well drive traffic to their sites.

#29. Make special automated report/announcement

Schools can set automated announcement within a given period of time, using one of Google’s free tools.

#30. Instant email responder

Schools can also set an automated email responder with some free Google tools.

#31. Examination and periodic assessment with automatic grading and reporting

No more wasting time setting exams, marking it and grading it before reporting it. At a go, Google provides free tools that enable teachers set examination questions for their students, which automatically marks, records and instantly returns to the students.

#32. Educational infographics

You may not need Canva and other related online tools to create infographics. You can now do it with some Google free tools.

#33. Educational cartoon

Your students, especially the younger ones, can find learning exciting when you bring in cartoons and animations in the classroom. Google has free tools for classroom cartoons.

#34. Digital storyboards/storybooks

Teachers can create digital storybooks with Google free tools.

#35. Interactive and beautiful lesson plans for all subjects

Google has customized templates for lesson plans for every subject.

#36. Digital submission of lesson notes/plans

With these free Google tools, submission and markings of lesson plans/notes can now be done digitally with ease and accuracy.

#37. Computer Based Test practice for students

Schools can help their students get ready for a computer based test by using one of Google’s free tools for practice.

#38. Standard CV template

Teachers as well as students can master how to create standard CV choosing from many of Google’s free CV templates

#39. Customized online site for every class or section

Create an online site for each class and let the students post on their class sites.

#40. Teachers working on one document from home

With some free Google tools, teachers can collaborate to work on a given project while being afar from one another. Think of the convenience and time saving enjoyed.

There are quite so many other tech solutions you can provide with these free Google tools. Meanwhile, let’s start with the ones listed so far.

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