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Easily translate a Google Doc™ into a second language.  The document is reformatted to allow the translation to be directly to the right of the source language.  This creates a side-by-side view of the source and destination language.


Side-by-Side Translate uses Google Translate™ and is limited to the languages available.  Currently the integrated languages are: Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, English (UK),Portuguese (Brazil), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (PRC), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Urdu, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh

INSTRUCTIONS

Installing Side-by-Side Translate


Install Side-by-Side Translate from the G-Suite Marketplace™. If the add-on will not install, talk with your IT department (see note below). When installed, choose “Start” in the Connect More! add-on menu. Once there you will be using Connect More! in a few easy steps.


Note: Your IT Dept may be managing available apps.  If you are not allowed to install please ask them add access (instructions can be found at the bottom of the page).


Translating Document


Side-by-Side Translate uses the current Google Doc™ and when run utilizes Google Translate™ to convert all text into the desired language.  Users simply select the language and OTT-o will translate the document aligning the source language in the left column and the destination language in the right column, allowing for a side by side viewing.

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


2) To our 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 we have no intent other than to help teachers teach and engage their students in rigorous content.   This product is a result of coaching teachers and finding areas in which they face challenges, and then coding solutions to help meet those challenges.  We 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.

Managed domains like schools and businesses may require additional setup in order for Side-by-Side Translate to be allowed to work.  Please contact your IT department and have them allow Side-by-Side Translate.

  1. Admins go to https://admin.google.com/ac/apps/gmail/marketplace/apps
  2. Select "INSTALL APP" to push application to users, or select "ALLOWLIST APP" to allow user to install
  3. Search for "Side-by-Side Translate" and press "Select"
  4. Choose "Allow users to install this app", then press "CONTINUE"
  5. Select the users the prior selections will impact.  In this case Side-by-Side Translate can be used by students, teachers and staff, please select accordingly.
  6. Select "FINISH" to complete the process.
  7. Return to https://admin.google.com/ac/apps/gmail/marketplace/apps and verify that Side-by-Side Translate is now listed under "Domain Installed Apps" or "Allowlisted Apps"