Using Google Docs
Instructions for making and sharing Google Documents
Step 1- Starting the Google Document
Step 1a): Creating a new document
- Open Google Docs
- Login to your Google account, or sign up if you don't have one
- Go to Create > Document
- Go to File > Rename… and use a filename with your name at the front, and the name of the task, e.g. frank Rd- Jobsite webquest
- Click OK
OR
Step 1b): Using a document your teacher has made as a template
- Open the link your teacher has supplied
- Login to your Google account, or sign up if you don't have one
- Go to File > Make a copy
- Go to File > Rename… and use a filename with your name at the front, and the name of the task, e.g. frank Rd- Jobsite webquest
- Click OK
Step 2- Sharing your document
- Go to Share > Private > Change…
- Select Anyone with the link
- Change Can view to Can edit
- Click Save
- Optional Step: In Add people…
- Insert your teacher's email address
- Click Done
- Start writing your document
- You don't need to save, Google does this automatically
Step 3- Adding a link to your document to the wiki
- Open the kingsway<class>.wikidot.com page in one tab of your web browser (Google Chrome is best for this)
- Open your Google Documents in another tab of the same browser
- On the Kingsway Wikidot tab, log in to your Wikidot account (or create one if you don't have one yet)
- Go to the page with the collection of links for student work. For EAP, it is the Assessments page.
- Click Edit, at the top of the page
- On the Google Documents tab, select the URL (the http web address) at the top of the browser, and copy it (Ctrl+C)
- Go back to the Kingsway Wikidot tab
- In the edit window, find the location for inserting your link
- The link is made using three square brackets, like this-
[[[ ]]] - The pipe character "|" is used to enter some display text, like this-
| DocumentName - Inside the three square brackets, enter a "*" character, like this-
[[[* ]]] - Paste (Ctrl+V) your URL address after the "*"
- Enter some display text if necessary
- So your link should look like this-
[[[*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1234abcd/edit?pli=1 | DocumentName]]] - Click Save, under the edit window
- The link is made using three square brackets, like this-
- Click your link to test that it works correctly