Does anyone else hate Google Slides assignments?

[Anonymous]

Many of the upper ES assignments are on google slides and it takes us a lot of time trying to manipulate the text boxes or the arrows or the protractors or the rulers or whatever shapes they tell us to use. I step in when I see my kid wasting a lot of time on the slides trying to move stuff or change the size to fit in the text or rotate a shape to the correct degree etc and it makes me mad that I am wasting my time doing this stupid stuff. Sometimes it takes me a lot of time and I am an IT professional.The actual Math/LA/SS/Science work is easy for my kid. Its all the other stuff that eats up a lot of time. Why can't the teachers just have the kids write down their answers using paper and pencil and have them take photos and send that?

[Anonymous]

We just write in the comments or skip it.

[Anonymous]

Yes. You always have the option to do that as long as the work is turned in. I am in a different district and that is what I do.

Anonymous wrote:Many of the upper ES assignments are on google slides and it takes us a lot of time trying to manipulate the text boxes or the arrows or the protractors or the rulers or whatever shapes they tell us to use. I step in when I see my kid wasting a lot of time on the slides trying to move stuff or change the size to fit in the text or rotate a shape to the correct degree etc and it makes me mad that I am wasting my time doing this stupid stuff. Sometimes it takes me a lot of time and I am an IT professional.The actual Math/LA/SS/Science work is easy for my kid. Its all the other stuff that eats up a lot of time. Why can't the teachers just have the kids write down their answers using paper and pencil and have them take photos and send that?

[Anonymous]

They are better apps out there. My school district is adopting any more user friendly one starting this fall.

[Anonymous]

Why are you helping with this? Have your child do whatever they can do and submit. Mine like google classroom because they can easily keep track of what is assigned. Neither have asked for assistance and I have no idea if they format correctly. I’m not looking at their assignments. They are in elementary school. They haven’t taken more than 2 hours per day and I haven’t gotten any emails saying they aren’t participating.

[Anonymous]

Teachers like google stuff because they can view all student answers in dashboard format, spreadsheets, etc depending what the work looks like, they can comment on it in real time, and they can work on an assignment "with" a student.

If it's not working for you, just write it down on paper and take a picture and return the photo. For every assignment I have given during this distance stuff, I've given an electronic option and a paper option. Kids are 50/50 on which one they choose. (That's not true, they're 20/20--60% aren't doing anything, lol)

[Anonymous]

My DD just turned in a hand written answer to her assignment today. She took a picture, put it on her machine, then inserted the picture into the Google Doc. It’s perfectly acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are better apps out there. My school district is adopting any more user friendly one starting this fall.

What other apps are you talking about? Google Slides vs. Powerpoint? It is not the Google Slides it's the apps that teachers are using to create the games and activities.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, yes, it's AWFUL and not being used the way that it should be used. My first grader most definitely can't use it on her own which means we have to spend 30-60 minutes a day helping her do her homework. And I mean, come on, you can't expect 6 and 7 year olds to type in long answers - it would take my child 20 minutes to type out one sentence, she has no idea where all the letters are on a keyboard!!

And then there's all the other sites they have to learn to use - flip grid, padlet, etc.... My kids don't watch youtube, so even that requires assistance. Such a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers like google stuff because they can view all student answers in dashboard format, spreadsheets, etc depending what the work looks like, they can comment on it in real time, and they can work on an assignment "with" a student.

If it's not working for you, just write it down on paper and take a picture and return the photo. For every assignment I have given during this distance stuff, I've given an electronic option and a paper option. Kids are 50/50 on which one they choose. (That's not true, they're 20/20--60% aren't doing anything, lol)

I doubt anyone is actually looking at these answers.

[Anonymous]

It could be worse... Your child's teachers could just be referring your kid to the awful and dumbed down FCPS packet, which has the same stuff in it week after week with only slight tweaks (what's different in the picture below? What doesn't belong? Array chart etc). That's what most of my child's assignments are.

[Anonymous]

So the assignment itself is to be completed in Google Slides? Not just putting together a presentation? That's weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the assignment itself is to be completed in Google Slides? Not just putting together a presentation? That's weird.

It’s a hyperdoc. My child in APS uses them a lot through Canvas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers like google stuff because they can view all student answers in dashboard format, spreadsheets, etc depending what the work looks like, they can comment on it in real time, and they can work on an assignment "with" a student.

If it's not working for you, just write it down on paper and take a picture and return the photo. For every assignment I have given during this distance stuff, I've given an electronic option and a paper option. Kids are 50/50 on which one they choose. (That's not true, they're 20/20--60% aren't doing anything, lol)

I doubt anyone is actually looking at these answers.

NP here. My kids' teachers are looking at them and returning assignments with comments for corrections needed.

[Anonymous]

Yes it’s annoying. But the good news is if they learn it now they will be much faster in the coming years. Our school is 1:1 with laptops starting in 3rd grade and it was a huge learning curve. At least now none of this is graded.