Part 1 - Turn the physical worksheet into a digital worksheet:
- Option 1: Scan the worksheet using the copier in your building and email it to yourself. The worksheet is turned into a PDF file.
- Option 2 for iPhone users: Take a picture/scan of the worksheet in the Notes app using your iPhone. This will save the worksheet as a PDF file. Click here and follow these instructions.
- Option 3 for Android users: Scan the document using the Google Drive app. Click here and follow these instructions.
- Option 4: Take a picture of the worksheet using your cell phone or your Chromebook. Save the image file to your Google Drive.
Part 2 - Take the digital worksheet and make it interactive:
- Option 1:
- Turn a PDF into a Google Slide for students to type on - Once you turn the PDF into a Google Slide, then put your Google Slide in Schoology for students to complete and turn in. Follow the Google Assignment App instructions.
- How to take a screenshot on a Chromebook - use the below keyboard shortcut
- Turn a PDF into a Google Slide for students to type on - Once you turn the PDF into a Google Slide, then put your Google Slide in Schoology for students to complete and turn in. Follow the Google Assignment App instructions.
- Option 2: Create a Fillable Worksheet in a Schoology Assessment. This option does not work if you want students to fill in the blank with their own answers (examples: constructive response, short answer). This video shows how students drag and drop answer choices into blanks.
- Option 3: Use the Kami extension to write on the document and submit it to Schoology for grading.
- Kami Chrome Extension: (This extension has been pushed to student Chromebooks by the technology office.) Users can annotate text and edit documents using Kami. Sign up with your Red Clay Google Account. Students can annotate using Kami and then submit their annotated assignment in Schoology.
- Kami offers free, basic accounts to its users and also Premium Educator plans which cost money. When teachers use Kami for the first time, they may initiate a free 6 month trial which gives them access to premium features. After the 6 month period, users can still use their free, basic Kami account.
- Free, basic Kami accounts include highlighting, underlining, strikethrough, adding a text box, text commenting, inserting shapes, and freehand drawing. Kami also integrates with Google Drive and Schoology for free.
- Using Kami with Schoology - this integration works, even with free, basic Kami accounts
- Students and teachers must sign in to Kami in order for this integration to work. Click here and sign in to Kami using your Red Clay Google Account.
- Kami Help Center
- Kami offers free, basic accounts to its users and also Premium Educator plans which cost money. When teachers use Kami for the first time, they may initiate a free 6 month trial which gives them access to premium features. After the 6 month period, users can still use their free, basic Kami account.
- Kami Chrome Extension: (This extension has been pushed to student Chromebooks by the technology office.) Users can annotate text and edit documents using Kami. Sign up with your Red Clay Google Account. Students can annotate using Kami and then submit their annotated assignment in Schoology.
- Option 4: Add the worksheet to your Google Slides presentation, then use Pear Deck to make the slide a drawing slide. When presenting with Pear Deck, students can draw or type on the worksheet. Click here to learn more about Pear Deck.
