PDF Candy - Your One Stop PDF Resource

PDF Candy

One Solution for all of your PDF needs.

Created by Scott Aten, November 30, 2018

We all use PDFs. They are a great file type to provide to anyone because they can be viewed on any type of device. That being said, they can also be frustrating to work with as well. They can be challenging to edit.
Adobe is constantly changing their licensing making it difficult for schools to continue to purchase the software that will do some of the advanced editing.  Enter PDF Candy, a tool developed by Leslie
Fisher.

What can PDF Candy do?:

• Rearrange pages in a PDF
• Extract text from a PDF
• Convert the PDF into other files (Word, docx, Tiff, Png, Jpg, and more)
• Merge two PDFs together
• Delete pages from a PDF
• Convert docs to PDF
• Add a watermark

And much more!

You can begin to use PDF Candy today by visiting the site: https://pdfcandy.com

Happy PDFing

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Green Local Schools

Tech Integration Team

Activity Dashboard in Google Docs Editor

Activity Dashboard in Docs

See who and when people have viewed a doc

Created by Scott Aten, November 15, 2018

Ever wonder if a document you have shared with someone has been viewed by them? What about an assignment given to your students? Have they even opened it? One little known feature of Google Docs is the Activity Dashboard. By accessing the Activity Dashboard you will be able to see who has accessed the document and when they last viewed it. You can also see who has NEVER opened the document.

Practical Uses:

• See if all of your students have accessed an assigned reading.
• Check to see when a colleague has looked at a file to inform them that it has been updated.
• Email a followup on a document that is being collaborated on from within the Activity Dashboard

Here is where to find the Activity Dashboard:

• Open a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slides file
• From the Tools Menu
• Choose "Activity Dashboard..."

The Activity Dashboard will open giving you data on that documents viewing history.  You are also able to see view trends and change the privacy settings for the view history.  A lot of good information is right at your fingertips.  Yes, this is available in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Give it a try on a document today!

For more helpful information and the archive of previous posts, look for items in the menu to the left.

Green Local Schools

Tech Integration Team