Drum Roll, Please! Announcing the Newly Released Doctopus, An Add-on for Google Docs

March 8, 2014 | By Jay Atwood & Jennie Magiera

 

Classroom teachers spend most of the day chasing after students and the rest of their afternoons and evenings chasing after paper. Time and again educators lament not having personal assistants like many of their similarly-educated colleagues. Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone who could make your copies, distribute papers and help you with grading? Well, it turns out that there is, in the form of a Google Add-on called Doctopus.

 

 

Doctopus is truly the educator’s virtual personal assistant. This script is so many things: a virtual copy machine for your Google Drive, a customizable feedback tool and a great way to digitize differentiation. As simply stated in the script itself, it "copies and hands out Google Drive files to students listed in a Google Sheet."