Add-ons enable you to customize the functions of Google Docs. These can range from
bibliographies to graphs and charts to speech recognition. In this post I’ll be giving my top five picks for add ons for teachers to make life a little bit easier. It´s hard to rank these because of the varied uses, so these are in no particular order.
1. Consistency Checker
Consistency Checker is a great add-on for formal writing. What it does is it scans for errors (such as hyphens, numbers in sentences, spelling consistency, typos, and abbreviations) and it makes sure everything is uniform. It takes a lot of the technicalities out of writing and creating documents. If you´re not an English teacher, this is a nice add-on to have
2. EasyBib Bibliography Creator
EasyBib has saved me quite a bit of time already. Now that it’s an add-on for Google docs, It makes a huge difference. Now works can be sited without having to go an external application of the web. Bibliographies are a great way to keep students up to date and able to find sources.
3. Lucidchart Diagrams
Without going online, it’s really difficult to get diagrams and charts into documents. With Lucidchart, its easy to put charts and diagrams into documents. Whether its flowcharts or diagramming, this add-on is a great tool.
4. Speech Recognition
This add-on doesn’t really do anything special. it just lets you create an entire document without touching a keyboard. This is by far, one of the best speech-to-text programs i´ve ever used. Even between multiple people, this software keeps pretty good pace with almost pinpoint accuracy. I was actually impressed.
5. Texthelp Study Skills
Highlighting is important to showing the key parts of a document. Study Skills lets you highlight, group your highlights, and sort them into different subjects. This is a decent add-on that lets you do some pretty basic things, its just a nice thing to have when working on a presentation.