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Google Classroom - The To-Do Menu in the Sidebar

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If you are going to Google Classroom and want to get a list of work needing your attention, this is very easy to do - as a teacher or as someone enrolled in a course.  This can be especially useful when you have multiple courses to manage. (It is probably worth a few minutes to demonstrate this to your students so they know about it as well.) To get to the To-Dos, click on the 3 horizontal lines (some people call this the hamburger or pancakes...) - Click on To-do under teaching to see the assignments you have given - This window will display all your assignments, along with their status (how many turned in, how many were assigned, how many have been graded) - If you want to select to see this just for one class, look over on the left upper corner where it says All classes - Clicking that will display a dropdown of all your classes, so you can choose which one to view - As a student, looking down a bit further in the left sidebar (seen by clicking those 3 hor...

Google Mail - Collapsed left sidebar

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Working yesterday, my left sidebar was collapsed when in email.  Not having seen this before, I had to search to see how to display it again.  Though, if you are working on a smaller screen, this is a nice feature to know about when screen real estate is needed for other tasks! Here is an example of the sidebar displayed (on the right) vs collapsed (on the left): You can see how it pops out when you mouse-over the icons: Use the "hamburger" icon at the top to turn this feature on/off: