Using Google Apps Script to Fast Track Student Feedback: Behind the code

Here is some text I prepared for a possible Google Apps Developer blog guest post. It doesn’t look like it’s going to get published so rather than letting it go to waste I thought I’d publish here

Hacking stuff together with Google Spreadsheets: Fast Tracking Student Feedback System

In this example Google Apps Script is used to create a custom user interface that can be used in Google Spreadsheets, allowing tutors to enter feedback and grades based on individual assessment criteria pulled from a central data source (another Google Spreadsheet). The system then generates personalised feedback forms (Google Documents) based on the data and distributes them to students

Fast-tracking feedback: Google Apps Script user interface training material [Release 2]

Note: This is a personal post made outwith my current employment at JISC CETIS Back in May 2011 Tony Hirst looked at the Visual UI Editor For Google Apps Script and commented that he thought before long I would have posted something about it. Well almost a year later here’s what I’ve got for you.  […]

Sending free SMS messages to students by mashing up Google Calendar notifications

Finding free ways to send and receive SMS messages is something I’ve covered before (Twitter Ye! Twitter Ye! Keep your students informed with free SMS text message broadcasts! and Free SMS voting using intelliSoftware SMS Gateway service). Browsing the Google Apps Script site I saw there is a new tutorial by Romain Vialard which lets […]

Fast-tracking feedback using Google Apps Script [Release 1]

In October last year the Sport Learning Technologists at Loughborough College successfully won funding from the LSIS Leadership in Technology (LIT) grant scheme for the Fast-tracking feedback using Google Scripts project. Here’s an extract from the project summary: This project will effectively combine Google Apps for Education and Google Apps Script in order to create […]

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