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Coding Google: you can do it!Accessing Google technologies outside of Google

Google for EducationCertified Innovator ProgramJun 2016: Boulder, CO, USA

+Wesley Chun, @wescpyDeveloper Advocate

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Outline

● What are Google APIs?● Google Apps Script● Flubaroo & GFormIt● Summary

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I teach

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I write

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I code

What are Google APIs?Access Google technologies outside of Google

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BUT... wait, there’s more...

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Google Apps ScriptCode a little… do a lot!

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Hello World! Ever wonder what this is for?

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JS

Hello World!

JS

Type in this code...

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Like this...

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Code needs permission to access your data(!)

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“Hello World”

Apps Script intro videogoo.gl/1sXeuD

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JS

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JS

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Many types of mail merge

● Define a simple template using a draft email, document, sites page, or spreadsheet cell

● Add placeholder values that should be dynamically replaced● Each spreadsheet row merged with template and sent out

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Vacation calendar for Brown University

● Aggregates together all the staff that are on vacation that day● Creates a single calendar event each day which lists everyone

that is out● Makes it easier to read your calendar

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GFormIt & Flubaroo teachers’ tools

● Automatically creates exams/quizzes from questions in Google Docs● Auto-submission as grading key if answers provided with questions

● Auto-grading of results in a Sheet against answer key● Emails results & answers to students plus charts to analyze results

Flubaroo & GFormItApps Script-based teacher tools!

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Flubaroo

Popular Google Sheets add-on

● Created by part-time community college teacher● Who also happens to be a Googler● Much more information at flubaroo.com● Open-sourced at edcode.org

● 120k installs of the Add-on to date (new Google sheets)● Over 10,000 thirty-day active users● 130k unique assignments graded / month

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Flubaroo

What it does

● Grade submissions to a quiz (already submitted)

● Analyze results

● Email grades

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Leads to GFormIt

"Prequel" script for Flubaroo.

Motivation:

● Grading exams. DONE.● Creating exams? TBD.

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Create a “quiz” in a Google DocOne question per line, optionally an answer on very next line

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Ask GFormIt to generate a Google FormAdd the Add-on, then select “Generate Form” from the menu

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Google Form automagically created for youGFormIt creates a Form (and more) based on your Docs content

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”More” == Google Sheet for responsesBonus for teachers:

GFormIt submits your answers making it Flubaroo-ready

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DEMO

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Reference● Video Resources○ GOOGLE APPS SCRIPT■ goo.gl/1sXeuD (Apps Script intro with Sheets)■ goo.gl/oAzBN9 (Talk to Google Maps & Gmail)■ goo.gl/YuwZ0E (Talk to YouTube)■ goo.gl/xSzGl4 (Autogenerating Google Forms)■ TBD (Maps *and* driving directions!)■ TBD (Google Docs & Google Translate)

○ OTHER DEVELOPER VIDEOS■ goo.gl/kFMUa6■ youtube.com/GoogleDevelopers

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Summary● We’ve created great tech but can’t build everything(!)● APIs: our tech available for YOUR apps; more coming...● Our best kept secret: Google Apps Script○ Learn simple JavaScript, get keys to car :-)○ Convenient access to Google Apps data & other Google+external services

● Apps Script-based teacher tools: Flubaroo and GFormIt○ Roll your own!

● Build the next great thing & empower the next generation!

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Thank you! Questions?

+Wesley Chungoogle.com/+WesleyChun

@wescpytwitter.com/wescpy

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