Easily pull student slides into your own presentation for quick viewing of progress and to provide individualized feedback. Connect More! allows teachers to pull in three different ways:

  1. Pull slide by title, this method allows the teacher to grab a specific slide from every student’s presentation for a quick formative assessment

  2. Pull slides by number, this method allows teachers to grab a specific slide when source decks were distributed in a known order

  3. Pull ALL Slide, this method allows the teacher to grab a snapshot of every slide in all students presentations

 INSTRUCTIONS

Installing Connect More!

Install Slip-in-Slide from the G-Suite Marketplace™. If the add-on will not install, talk with your IT department about whitelisting the add-on. When installed, choose “Start” in the Connect More! add-on menu. Once there you will be using Connect More! in a few easy steps.

Pull student slides

Connect More uses the current presentation as hub to look at an entire classes assignment. To do this the user selects the student presentations, and then pulls the desired slides (By Title, By Number, or All) into the current presentation. The process is done automatically extracting each slide that meets the criteria (FYI, if multiple slides have the same title in a student presentation, each of them will be pulled into the hub) while also creating an alphabetized index (perfect for use with Google Classroom™ naming structure). Additionally, each student receives a unique colored corner that links to their main presentation. If students have multiple slides in the hub, they will each have the same unique colored corner.

Provide feedback (or update as necessary)

Now that the students slides reside in the hub the user can provide feedback. This can be done by adding new elements to the slide including text boxes, shapes, images, …. Only new elements will be treated as feedback when the user decides to push the feedback into each of the student presentations.

Note: If it is necessary to update a students slides there will be an “Update” button in the corner. Please DO NOT use that button, but instead use the “Update Slides that Have Changed!” option in the add-on’s menu. This will maintain the integrity of the imported slides and their colored corners which are critical to Connect More! and sending feedback.

Send Feedback

Once the feedback has been prepared by the user, simply use the “Send Feedback” option within the add-on’s menu to send feedback for the current slide, or for all slides.

Note: Only slides with feedback will be pushed to the students.

PRICING & PII

Individual OTT-o-matic ALL ACCESS Subscription is $20/year and includes all OTT-o-matic Add-on’s

Please visit the pricing page to view district/school ALL ACCESS Subscriptions.

Domain level licensing does not require PII and is whitelisted at the domain level for all user. Licenses which are assigned individually (including those purchased in bulk) will require collection of PII (email address only) in order to authenticate the user. Domain level licensing is the most private way to authorize OTT-o-matic products!

  • Below explains why the Google Drive scopes are required for the add-on to function. 

    1) Connect More! uses the “auth/drive.file” scope in conjunction with the picker used to select the student presentations.  Once selected the tool iterates through the files and uses the teachers own editing right to slip new slide content into each presentation. 

    2) To my knowledge, the scopes cannot be modified to remove a certain component such as deleting.  The add-on does go thru a review process by Google to ensure there is no malicious intent, and I have no intent other than to help teachers teach and engage their students in rigorous content.   This product (and all of my others) come out of coaching teachers and finding areas in which they face challenges, and I then code solutions to help meet those challenges.  I do want to ensure you that the program only does what is described which is to take a slide deck that the teacher owns, select the slide range they would like to slip into the student presentations to continue engagement, and to follow through and slip the slide to every presentation in the folder (if the teacher has editing rights).  Nothing else is done.  No files are removed, no slides removed for that matter.  This script simply enables the teacher to do something that would be to time consuming for students and teachers to consider doing. You can look at the OTT-o-matic Privacy Policy as well for further information to use of PII data.