Docs: Student Collaboration

Learning Activity

For this activity, go deeper with Google Doc features for a student collaborative assignment. 

Watch the video below or read the tips for ideas on a student assignment. For this activity, assign a collaborative lesson with your students and share it!

Resources

Using Google Docs for Student Collaboration

Google Docs Collaboration

Examples and Tips for Using Shared Google Docs

Whole-Class Brainstorming Session
Create a shared Google Doc for the class. All students in the class can access the document and add their ideas or information to the document simultaneously. They can view each others’ ideas as they add to spur further ideas.

Shared Notes
Students can share information with each other when they work together as a group. In a document that has been shared with all group members, they can add ideas and resources and see everyone’s changes in real-time.

Group Assignments
Students can work together on a shared Google Doc or presentation. Each student can be responsible for a portion of the work.

Resource Sharing
Using a shared folder, teachers and students can save documents for everyone in the class to access. The teacher can set if up so that only he or she can add resources to the folder, or students can be allowed to add resources.

Writing Workshop – Peer Review
Students can write their assignment in a Google Doc. They can share their work so that peers can edit the document or suggest changes. Teachers can do the same to help students along in the writing process.