Doctopus is a Google Apps for Education saviour! Created by Andrew Stillman, it is a script that installs into a Google Drive Spreadsheet that contains your students and their emails (the email needs to be one that allows them to access Google Drive). Once installed the, the script will run inside the spreadsheet to create multiple copies of a file and share them all with students, name them how you want, and make sure they all are organized in a folder of your choosing.
It takes about 3 minutes of work to set it all up (maybe 10 minutes the first time since you have to create your roster of students), but it saves at least 30 minutes of time locating student files that have been shared with you, and tracking down students who forgot to share or who more likely misspelled your email.
Below is a quick video that simply shows what Doctopus does. If you like what you see, then please have a read through the instructions document that I shared with my staff at a recent PD session. Also the video below called Doctopus Demonstration is a great walk through by Katie Grassel, which is how I learned to use it for the first time.
It takes about 3 minutes of work to set it all up (maybe 10 minutes the first time since you have to create your roster of students), but it saves at least 30 minutes of time locating student files that have been shared with you, and tracking down students who forgot to share or who more likely misspelled your email.
Below is a quick video that simply shows what Doctopus does. If you like what you see, then please have a read through the instructions document that I shared with my staff at a recent PD session. Also the video below called Doctopus Demonstration is a great walk through by Katie Grassel, which is how I learned to use it for the first time.
Doctopus Intructions Download |