Tutorial Explora Tutorial for Educators: Using Google Classroom and Google Drive support.ebsco.com

If you are a G Suite Apps for Education user, you already know that Google Classroom allows you to create classes, distribute assignments and communicate with your students ― all in one place. Explora, EBSCOhost, and EBSCO Discovery Service are now compatible with Google Classroom, making it easier than ever for you to share authoritative articles and multimedia content with your students. In this tutorial, we’ll use Explora to show you how you can find, save and distribute school library resources to your students using Google Classroom and Google Drive.

Let’s begin by conducting a search from the Explora home page Let’s begin by conducting a search from the Explora home page. Enter your keywords in the search box, then click Search to generate a list of results.

Select the article you wish to share to Google Classroom and click the HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text link.

Now click the green Google Classroom Share icon in the Tools Menu on your right. Assuming you are already logged in to your Google account, Google Classroom will launch in a separate browser window.

Choose the class to which you intend to assign the article Choose the class to which you intend to assign the article. Choose Create assignment. Then click the Go button.

Enter a Title, Instructions, Due Date and Topic for the assigned reading. Then click the Assign button.

A confirmation window will appear A confirmation window will appear. Click View to see the assignment in Google Classroom.

You can also save articles directly to Google Drive and link to them from Google Classroom at a later time. From the PDF Full Text screen, click the Google Drive icon in the Tools Menu.

If you have not yet saved EBSCO resources to Google Drive, you will be prompted to allow ebsco.com to view and manage the files in your Google Drive. Click the Allow button to proceed.

A panel will appear to confirm that your article has been saved to Google Drive. Click OK to close the Google Drive panel.

Your articles are saved to Google Drive in an "EBSCO" folder.

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