Using Google Templates
This article only applies to schools that use a Google Workspace.
How does a Google Drive Template work?
If your school uses Google Workspace, it is possible to share Google Drive Templates with your students to complete as evidence. To enable the use of Google Drive Templates, your school will need to have established a LiFT/Google integration, and all teachers and students also need to complete a Single Sign On step – also known as SSO – to complete the connections. SSO only needs to be set-up once per user. (Read Getting Started for instructions on how to complete Single Sign On)
Once the LiFT/Google integration is in place, you can assign a Google Drive Template for your learners. When your students click on Start Assignment, LiFT automatically creates a copy of that template in each student’s drive, manages all permissions so that you can seamlessly share the template back-and-forth during the Evidence’s revision cycle, and allows you to edit and add comments directly into the templated document as you review it.
Important Point: Google Drive Templates are used for individualized documents that go back-and-forth between you and your students, not for one-directional information you’re sharing.
Google Drive Templates are great for worksheets or other assignments
that you want to have filled in. To avoid having to rely on your
students to properly share a self-originated Google document with you,
you may also wish to use a Google template for other writing
assignments, and just include a quick note or instruction at the top of
an otherwise blank document.
Watch Video: Using Google Templates
How to Create and Add a Google Drive Template
Create a Google Doc Template in your Google Drive
Perhaps a Worksheet to be filled in.
Or a writing assignment to be completed.
Possible file formats include Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides.
Click on the blue Assign as Google Template button
Select your school-based Google account
Navigate to and click on the Google Doc Template in your Google Drive
- Pro Tip: Please remember that Google Templates are only used for interactive documents of a reasonable size. Do not use this feature just to provide read-only resources. If you are providing your learners with information not intended to be modified and returned to you, add the resources in the description, or add it as an evidence or step resource.
- Big Files Caution: The load times of extremely large Google files in LiFT's artifact viewer can be slow. If your template assignment is very large (or will become very large over time) don't assign it as a template. For a faster experience, ask your students to create the assignment in their Drive and submit it as a standard URL within LiFT.
- Once added, the link to the template is displayed immediately under that button.
Be Sure to Click Save
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