tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34922387937595046772024-01-05T05:35:16.245-08:00WUSD Ed TechExtending teaching & learning through the meaningful use of technologywusdedtech.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598019669487178625noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-86455307538129410052019-10-10T12:28:00.000-07:002019-10-10T12:28:42.418-07:00Whoopsie Daisy - You've finished Lexia
MYSTERIOUS ERROR MESSAGE IN LEXIA...
If your student receives this "Whoopsie Daisy" message when logging into Lexia, it means that they have finished Lexia.
We encountered this with a 5th grader from Mrs. Gonzales' class at Riverbank and thought it was a log-in or password issue.
Upon further research we discovered that the student is listed as "finished" in the status wusdedtech.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598019669487178625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-37413740091761700272019-04-30T06:00:00.000-07:002019-05-10T08:01:55.010-07:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #29
Do you ever write an email in advance but schedule it to send in the future? For example, I wrote this email AND sent this email yesterday, even though it wasn't actually sent until 6:00 a.m. this morning!
Gmail now offers Scheduled Send. Here's how.
Compose your email
When you want to Schedule Send, Click the down arrow next to the Send button.
Choose one of theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-79752268349996798472019-02-27T06:00:00.000-08:002019-05-10T07:59:16.046-07:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #28
New Feature Alert! More Options now available in Gmail via Right Click (or 2-finger Click on a Chromebook)
You now have even more options for managing your emails straight from your Gmail inbox.
Here's how.
Go to your inbox and hover over an email on the list and right click on your mouse. Or, if on a Chromebook, do 2-finger click on the touchpad.
You'll see Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-34730870908607433282019-02-19T06:00:00.000-08:002019-05-10T07:57:02.536-07:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #27
Have you noticed and tried Google Hangouts yet?
Hangouts is a text and video chat application that provides an alternative mode of communication beyond email. It lives in your Gmail under the labels on the left sidebar menu. A quick question via hangouts text can sometimes prompt a quicker response than an email. You can also create groups in Hangouts for easy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-40652839026824245942019-02-11T06:43:00.003-08:002019-02-11T06:43:35.730-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #26
Have you checked out GSuite Training recently? It lives in all Google products in the top right corner when using Chrome and provides short, personalized tutorials on various topics relevant to the Google app you are in. It has a search feature and is the go-to place to not only find answers to your Gmail (or other Google app) questions but will also walk you through step-by-step how to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-27524344062672362722019-02-06T06:00:00.000-08:002019-02-06T06:00:00.442-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #25Who hates getting an email with a Google Drive file link, only to click on it and have to request access? Sharing Drive files within Gmail easily prevents the frustration. Here's how to share Google Drive files using Gmail.
Start a new email
Click on the Google Drive Icon at the bottom of your message
Add the Google Drive file you wish to share.
Hit Send
Google will automagically check the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-68686346435814445562019-02-05T06:00:00.000-08:002019-02-05T06:00:00.458-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #24Did you know you can create Calendar events straight from your inbox?It's as easy as 1, 2, 3. Try it out with this email.
Open your email.
At the top of the email, Click Meatballs > Create Event
Add details to your event and click Save
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-33104980472504893562019-02-04T07:37:00.001-08:002019-02-04T07:37:22.375-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #23
Who hates clicking on a link in an email only for it not to work?
Gmail makes it easy to test your links in advance to prevent this from happening to your users. Here's how.
Type the descriptive text for your link in the body of your email, such as District Website
Highlight the descriptive text.
Click on the Link icon on the bottom menu (or use Control + K Keyboard Shortcut)
Add the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-86328407495751799882019-02-01T07:16:00.005-08:002019-02-01T07:16:44.941-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #22Happy February! Since it's the first day of a new month, today's tip is about Google calendar and how to customize your view.When you visit calendar.google.com, you can change your view using the drop-down menu at the top next to the gear.
Buy why scroll and click, when you can use keyboard shortcuts! Give it a try. These shortcuts allow you to quickly toggle between different calendar Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-55698674229791356722019-01-31T06:00:00.000-08:002019-02-01T07:02:42.651-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #21
Did you know you can customize which labels/folders you see on your left menu? If you are tired of scrolling on the left menu to click more and having to scroll more up and down to locate your SPAM or Trash or another Label, then this tip is for you!
Here's how you can personalize exactly what you see on the left menu bar.
Visit the Gear > Settings
Click on the Labels Tab
Under Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-36750664715763974832019-01-30T08:05:00.001-08:002019-01-30T08:05:07.109-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #20Since Gmail has been live for several weeks now, have you had the experience of clicking on an email link within Aeries, a website, or another program only to have Outlook open? If this has happened to you, this means you need to update your default email application to Gmail. Here's a help document that walks you through how to make your default email Gmail on Windows 10 machines. (Substitute Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-6264779823761321252019-01-29T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-29T06:00:01.614-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #19
Gmail does not offer a native real-time spell check. It does offer the option to check your spelling by clicking on the meatballs at the bottom of your message and choosing Check Spelling.
Will you remember to do this for each email you send?!?!?
I recommend installing the Chrome Extension Grammarly instead. This is a freemium extension that provides real-time spelling Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-17674256498117489192019-01-28T11:55:00.001-08:002019-01-28T11:55:15.540-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #18Did you know you can snooze an email, almost like an alarm clock? What's even better than an alarm clock is that you can customize the "snooze" period for each snoozed email. This is a great feature for those emails that require action sometime in the future, perhaps when you have additional information or closer to a deadline. When you snooze an email, it will disappear from your inbox and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-89610755449997298992019-01-25T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-25T06:00:03.272-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #17
Today's tip focuses on the appearance of emails within your inbox. The default is conversation view. This means that your emails will be grouped together as a thread. As people reply to an email, those responses will be grouped together in your inbox with the most recent email response appearing at the bottom of the conversation thread. If you are a fan of your emailUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-16906483453575284872019-01-24T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-24T06:00:06.381-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #16
Your contacts (think Address Book) lives in the Waffle. As you continue to use Gmail, your contact list will expand as people are automatically added to your contacts as you email them.
But also within Contacts, you can create your own groups by assigning labels to your contacts. It's worth the time to create labels within contacts for people who you regularly email, send Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-52977748747182233052019-01-23T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-23T06:00:00.429-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #15Yesterday, you learned how to apply labels on your emails. Today, I'll show you how to create filters to automatically apply labels (and more!) to your emails for even greater organization and customization to meet your needs. Filters function like Rules in Outlook. If you had Rules established in Outlook, those will need to be recreated as filters in Gmail.I like to think of filters as a 2-step Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-3019629875751781852019-01-22T06:55:00.001-08:002019-01-22T06:55:19.312-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #14
Organize your Inbox with the help of labels!
Labels help with organization by grouping emails together, similar to folders. If you used Folders in Outlook to organize your email, those folders transferred over to Gmail as Labels. Labels in Gmail function like folders with one big added benefit...you can attach multiple labels to a single Email! If you didn't use Folders in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-25559435467908240342019-01-18T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-18T06:00:03.983-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #13
Did you know you can set Out of Office reminders in BOTH Gmail and Calendar?
Here's how in Gmail
Go to mail.google.com
Click on Gear > Settings
Under the General Tab, scroll to the very bottom and locate Vacation Responder.
Type your desired Out of Office Message
Set Parameters: Date to turn on/off. Choose whether to send to people in Contacts and/or people in WUSD
Turn Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-28383912908355640502019-01-17T10:33:00.005-08:002019-01-17T10:33:56.263-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #12
Now that you are accessing your email via the Chrome browser, you may have a number of tabs open throughout the day and it's easy for Gmail to get lost in a sea of tabs. What's the solution?
Pin your Gmail Tab!
Here's how.
Using Chrome, visit mail.google.com
Hover over your Gmail Tab and Right Click (or 2 finger click on Chromebook)
Select Pin Tab
This action moves Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-57138028595535602182019-01-15T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-15T06:00:11.626-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #11
When you compose a new email, a pop-up window appears in the corner of your screen. Depending on the screen size of your device and your workflow, this pop-up may be too small for your liking. You can expand the compose email window by clicking on the arrows in the corner.
This will both enlarge and center your compose screen. If you prefer this size and view, you can make itUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-24399352726076614772019-01-14T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-14T06:00:03.008-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #10
Looking for an email? Use the Power of Google Search right in your Inbox
You can easily search your inbox by typing your search terms in the Search Box at the top of your inbox.
But the even greater search capabilities are revealed by clicking on the down arrow.
Here you can refine your results by sender, subject, words contained within the email and much, much more.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-83513059565840270162019-01-11T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-11T06:00:13.471-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #9
Happy Friday Everyone!
Have you noticed that Gmail sometimes offers to complete your words or sentences when writing an email? That's the smart compose feature that provides you writing suggestions after typing only a few characters or short phrase. If you like what you see, simply press the tab key and Gmail will complete the rest!
If you do Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-59334704168624949442019-01-10T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-14T12:14:43.466-08:00Google-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #8
Save Time with Keyboard Shortcuts!
It's the start of a new year and who wants to save time? Keyboard Shortcuts to the Rescue!
Instead of using your mouse or touchpad and scrolling over to click +Compose button to start a new email, you can just type the letter c!
For this to work, you'll need to make sure you have keyboard shortcuts turned on in Gmail. Here's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-38948119244395796822019-01-09T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-09T15:07:40.638-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #7
Want the Gmail Icon to Appear on your PC Taskbar, similar to how Outlook used to appear?
There are several ways to do this. Here's one of the easiest.
Using the Chrome Browser, open mail.google.com
With Gmail open, visit the meatballs (3 vertical dots) in the top right corner
Choose More tools > Create Shortcut
Now locate the newly created Gmail Icon on your Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492238793759504677.post-55860919473346260082019-01-08T06:00:00.000-08:002019-01-08T06:00:06.265-08:00Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #6
Happy Tuesday! What a great day to welcome back all of our students in 2019. Today's tip is super quick! Check your Gmail SPAM folder.
You will find that Gmail SPAM filters work better at filtering SPAM than our previous Outlook 2010 configuration. I HIGHLY recommend checking your SPAM filter more frequently over the new few weeks to make sure there are no desired Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0