When we asked the teachers we work with what their biggest challenge was in implementing technologies into their classrooms, the overwhelming response was lack of time. This led us to develop the Get efficient with G Suite for Education 30 day challenge to help them learn how to save time with the tools they already have. In this blog post, we bring you five of the efficiency tips that feature in the challenge.
Mail merge is one of those great time-saving features that people love. That’s probably why we get heaps of questions about the best way to do it in Gmail and Google Drive. In this blog post we’ll share the top five mail merge add-ons available in G Suite and help you choose the best one for your situation.
A common question I get asked when training our corporate and government clients is ‘Can I have multiple signatures in Gmail?’. While Gmail doesn’t have a dedicated multiple signature function, the good news is that you can use the Canned Responses lab instead. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use Canned responses to create and insert multiple signatures.
The Google Calendar gadget lab gives you a preview of your Google Calendar from the Gmail interface. It can display upcoming events from multiple calendars, and also lets you add new events using the Quick Add feature. You can also choose to show a mini date-picker if desired. The great thing about this lab is that it gives you visibility of your calendar without needing to leave Gmail.
In the rush to reply to all the emails we receive, it’s easy to overlook common spelling mistakes or typing errors. Whilst Gmail does not have as-you-type spell-check built-in, it does have another little known spell-check feature that is useful. You can also use your browser’s as-you-type spell checking to show those squiggly lines we’ve all become used to seeing under misspelled words.
A common feature people miss when transitioning to Gmail is the ability to insert a table into an email. However, although Gmail does not have an in-built function to insert a table, it does support the use of tables in a message. The trick is to copy an existing table into the email. The quickest and easiest way to do this is by…
A step by step guide to creating contact groups in Gmail. By creating contact groups in Gmail, you can keep your contacts organised and easily share Google Docs with others VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS 0:55 The first way to create a contact group in Gmail 2:20 How to Import Contacts into Gmail 2:35 The second way to
Gmail tabs are a new way of organising your mail into tabs which sit at the top of your page. Whilst email is not often seen as directly related to learning, email is a huge part of what we do in school. A couple of weeks ago Google released the first of it’s major updates
**UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST available in our three part series on scheduling an email in Gmail, snoozing an email and pausing your Gmail inbox.** One of the most frequent questions I am asked by people who are transitioning from Outlook to Gmail is “How do you schedule an email in Gmail?” At present there isn’t
There are a number of Google Apps purists that would ask the question: “Why on earth would you want to Sync Gmail with Outlook?” Yet for a number of schools managing the process of changing over to Google Apps, migrating teachers off outlook to using Gmail through their browser is too much change too
