Add Creativity to Your Lessons with Google Drawings!

While not as well known as Drive, Docs and Slides, Google Drawings is a powerful
collaborative tool that can be used to create diagrams, timelines, concept/thinking maps
and much more. If you have used the drawing tools in Slides, you have touched on some
features of Drawings. Drawings cranks it up a notch with more graphic features and the
ability to incorporate student creations into a variety of other apps.

All Google Drawing files are saved to Google Drive and as such seamlessly integrate with
Classroom, Docs, Slides and other Google applications. Note: You can view drawings on
an iPad but you cannot create or edit drawings on an iPad.

To access:

Go to https://docs.google.com/drawings

Or,  click on the App Launcher, and scroll down to Google Drawings

Check out this video for a quick overview and ideas on how to use it in the classroom.

The really good news it that you don't have to start from scratch!  

Check out these templates for ideas.  

It's easy to add Drawings to Slides!

1. Go to www.drawings.google.com
2. Complete your drawing in Google Drawings
3. Publish your drawing to the web (be sure to check “require users to sign in to GCISD”
4. Select Link and copy the link
5. In Google Slides, insert image by URL and paste the link
6. For detailed instructions with screenshots, go to add drawing to slides