Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2015!  

I'd like to announce a new model for technology workshops at CVU starting semester 2. Every Thursday will be drop-in work time during the first half of each block.  I will have my office (127) set up with laptops and tables.

I will announce the topic for each week.  If you have something in particular that you'd like to work on or learn, please let me know and I'll put it on the list.

Topic for January 15 (at 8:15, 10:45 and 1:00 on this exam day rescheduled to 1:30):
Closing out your Moodle page for semester 1 and getting set for semester 2

Topic for January 22:
Save a Tree-- Assigning, collecting and giving feedback without paper.

Topic for January 29:
Checking in-- Making questionnaires, surveys, and exit cards.

Google Forms

Google Forms has a new look.  If you're unfamiliar with Google Forms, it's the survey/questionnaire tool in Google Drive/Docs.  A Google Form is a very easy way to collect information.

For those who have used Google Forms before, here are the two important updates:

• You can now collaborate on authoring a form (just like any other Google Doc).
• You can now specify the destination for the responses.  This will create a spreadsheet file that is separate from the form itself (it used to confuse people when they were the same file).

If you'd like help getting started with Google Forms, please let me know!

New Google Forms Editor

The next time you go to make a new Google Form, you will likely notice that there have been some changes to the editor.  The most significant changes are:

• You can now choose whether the responses to the form go into a spreadsheet (as they have in the past) or whether they are kept in the form itself.  
• You can now collaborate on a form, just as you would on any other Google doc.

I just used the new editor myself,  and I like the changes.  Please let me know if you need any help with the new editor.