One of the powerful features of Gmail is the ability to search your messages. Even better is that you can be as concise or expansive with the search as you'd like. The search bar is conveniently located at the top of your inbox. If you click the down arrow in the search bar, you'll see that it expands to give you more options. You can search by time, subject, emails with attachments, or a number of other things. In that expanded box, you'll also see the link for creating a filter with the search that you are doing. There are even advanced search operators or query words that can be used in the search bar. If you are looking for that elusive email from 7 years ago, the search bar may do the trick!
Heading out of town? While it isn't a new feature, it is worth mentioning for the summer. Gmail has a vacation response section included in the Settings. While in your email, click the Settings gear. Scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see the Vacation responder section. There are a few settings to play with. Timing, who to send the message to, and the message itself. In any event, if you are going to be somewhere where access is limited or you are just unavailable for a day or a week, the vacation responder may come in handy.
There are many options for creating rubrics for your classroom, so why reinvent the wheel? If you need inspiration for verbiage to use or if you have no idea where to start, get on over to Rubistar. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Orange Slice is a Google extension which can help you create and then apply rubrics. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/orangeslice-teacher-rubri/hfbffoacepkeklpippgijnoemfmiondo?hl=en-US Take it a step further. Create a rubric in Google Forms that grades itself and calculates the score on the scale you want. http://www.curbyalexander.net/2016/03/create-a-self-grading-weighted-rubric-with-google-forms/
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