Lucid Press (App)

Create stunning visual content for print, mobile or web. Make brochures, newsletters, magazines, reports, and more using Lucidpress

Lucidpress is a web-based drag and drop publishing app, enabling students and staff to create content for print and digital.

Features:

Drag and drop to create your content 
Add images, video, and text from Google Drive, YouTube, Dropbox, Flickr, and Facebook
Publish digitally via a customized link 
Or download to PNG, JPG, or PDF (for printing)


Collaboration Options: 

Collaborate in real time on group or team projects
Add anyone to your document for free
Comment and chat without leaving your doc
Track or reverse edits with revision history


This app has several templates for digital and print: Newsletters, brochures,flyers, reports, posters, presentations, social media graphics,blog images, digital banners, or create your own!

PRINT: Download your content as a high-quality PDF or JPG that’s perfect for printing.
DIGITAL: Publish your work as a PNG or sleek digital document. Everything is optimized for viewing on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Applications for Education

Lucidpress could be an excellent tool for students to use to collaborate on creating flyers for school events, to create a collage showcasing a highlights of research, or to design a cover for an ebook. 

For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway,
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G Suite Training (Extension)

Interactive training & walkthroughs, right within G Suite

New to G Suite (formally known as GAFE, Google Apps for Education)? G Suite Training is a Chrome extension that offers simple and interactive training lessons to get you up and running fast with G Suite. 

Features include: 

Rich, interactive training - Whether you’re in Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Slides, or Docs, you can learn and take actions, all at the same time.
In-App experience - Training is accessible directly within G Suite, so you don’t need to leave the application to learn how to use it.
Available to all - Whether it’s to master Google Classroom, or the G Suite Admin Console, G Suite Training is free for your entire organization.
Learn more at support.google.com or go directly to the G Suite Training videos at portal.synergyse.com

NOTE: After adding to Chrome, refresh your Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Forms, Google+, and Classroom tabs to access the training menu.

For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway,
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AdBlock Plus (Extension)

AdBlock Plus

By installing the Adblock Plus extension you get an ads filter that lives in your browser. AdBlock Plus will block advertisements from webpages and YouTube videos without you having to do anything. This is a good extension for teachers and students to have installed to remove distracting ads from webpages and videos. Watch the 1 min. video to learn more.

For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway, visit https://goo.gl/sUpBKk.

Read & Write for Google Chrome (Extension)

Read & Write for Google Chrome

By clicking on the Read & Write extension, students can have Google Docs, Slides, and web pages read to them using the text-to-speech translator. The premium features of Read & Write will be accessible to students for the first 30 days after installing the extension, but when the trial is over they will just have access to the text-to-speech translator. The premium features are available to teachers for free. 

Click here for some getting started directions.

Applications for Education

Read & Write for Google Chrome's text-to-speech translator can be helpful to young students, for reading a website that is above a students reading level, or for students with special needs. 

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Alice Keeler Classroom Split (Extension)

So simple but so effective! Alice Keeler Classroom Split opens up the Google Classroom Assignments window next to where you or your student is working. 

You can find the extension here: https://goo.gl/DUFsuA

"Have your students install this extension to allow students to have their Google Classroom directions side by side with their workThis Chrome extension is intended for students to use with Google Classroom. Clicking the Chrome extension icon opens up the Google Classroom assignments page side by side with the students work. Students can easily view their assignment directions while working. Students can right click on the Chrome extension and choose "Options" to change the default destination from the Google Classroom assignments page to another URL."

For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway,
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Draftback (Extension)

Play Back Your Google Docs
Draftback renders a play back recording of the revision history in any Google Doc you can edit. It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. Once the Draftback extension has been added to your Google Docs, the Draftback tab will appear. Once the tab is clicked rendering will begin.

Notes: 
Draftback lets you see the history revision in a new way. 
You can also extract any part of a doc's playback and embed it on the web. 


Educational Application: 
This is a useful tool for students to learn about ones' own writing process. 
They have the ability to see the document's history on a keystroke basis and 
it allows students to become more self aware of their writing style.

For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway,
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Alice Keeler Classroom Side-by-Side Split (Extension)

This split screen extension allows you to right click on any link and open the destination URL on the right side of the screen.

This split screen extension allows you to right click on any link and choose "Open Side by Side" to open the destination URL on the right side of the screen. The current window will be resized to occupy the left side of the screen. This Chrome extension is useful to anyone needing side by side windows. The right click functionality makes it quick to view a website without leaving the current page.

Educational Application:

This extension is useful for teachers to view student work side by side with the web based gradebook. Google Classroom users can use the extension by right clicking on student work attached. Student work is displayed to the right of the grading screen in Google Classroom, making it easy to leave students a score and a feedback comment. Students can use the extension to view their work side by side with the assignment directions. Students right click on their Google Documents attached in Google Classroom to open their work to the right of the Google Classroom instructions.  By Alice Keeler visit http://alicekeeler.com

For a list of all Apps and Extensions that have been whitelisted in Parkway, visit https://goo.gl/sUpBKk.