Nearly each week Google makes updates to Google Workspace. Some solely have an effect on directors of Google Workspace domains whereas others have an effect on all end-users of Google Workspace merchandise. This week there have been three Google Workspace updates that lecturers and college students ought to word. Extra Accessibility Controls
Individuals who use display screen readers, magnifiers, and braille now have extra management over the accessibility settings for Google Workspace merchandise. Now you may set completely different accessibility choices for Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings. What this implies is that the settings you apply to Docs will not robotically apply to Slides, Sheets, and Drawings. Learn extra about this replace proper right here.
To be taught extra about accessibility settings in Google Workspace merchandise, learn this weblog put up and watch the movies inside it. And to study accessibility settings in Chrome, learn this put up and watch the movies inside it.
Social Hyperlinks in Google Websites
This replace merely makes one thing you have at all times been in a position to do just a bit bit simpler. Within the insert menu in Google Websites there may be now an choice labeled “social hyperlinks.” You need to use this feature to insert hyperlinks to your social media accounts and have these hyperlinks show little social media icons. That is one thing that was at all times doable to do with icons and hyperlinks, it is now just a bit simpler. Check out Google’s announcement about this characteristic to see an animated GIF of the method of including social hyperlinks to your Google Web site.
Assign Duties in Google Docs
Earlier this 12 months Google added undertaking administration templates and to-do lists as choices in Google Docs. Now while you create a process in a type of templates or lists, it is assigned to you and or your collaborators as Duties that seem within the sidebar of Google Docs (and every other Google Workspace instruments you employ). Learn this weblog put up to be taught extra and see an animated GIF of this new characteristic.