Gopher for Groups vs Mazetec for Google Slides™

Google Groups are a very powerful permissions, communications, and collaboration tool in G Suite for EDU districts, but auditing and managing their access settings can be a challenge at scale. Gopher for Groups lets you gain visibility and control of critical Google Groups access and permissions settings that impact the security of domain resources and communications. Group owners sometimes make risky edits to critical settings like “Who can join” or “Who can post” in ways admins can’t easily discover. Default settings for new groups are likely too permissive for a typical school environment. Group settings are overwhelmingly many, and are extremely time-consuming to update at scale via Google’s user interface. How Gopher for Groups boosts your administrative game: - Quickly import all Google Groups settings available via Google’s APIs. - Filter for key privacy or online safety risks, such as permissive join or posting settings. - Perform advanced group membership analysis to account for all owners and managers, identify nested groups, and look for groups with membership set to “all in domain.” - Make all your group settings right in the sheet. Use the power of Sheets filters to limit which groups you want to update. - Preview all changes before bulk-committing them to Google’s APIs

Turn your Slides into an interactive branching presentation with Mazetec. * Add choices to your slides that your audience navigates from their phone. * Add a timer and points to show the cost and impact of decisions. * Play it live with a group or send out solo. Originally built for training on how to respond to a mental health crisis, Mazetec captures the attention of busy multitasking students on the go and in the classroom and focuses them on your content. Choices force people to stop and think about your content, add choices to your slides with Mazetec. Play with a class or a group. Students join your presentation from their device. You see their choices live, who is on tab, and who hasn't responded. As you (the presenter) move forward all of the student screens are synchronized with your choice. Create solo / asynchronous activities that students play on their own with a link. Try the Open Choice feature to capture your class's questions on each slide. Their questions create branches in the presentation that you can respond to and students can review asynchronous later with a link. Learn more https://www.mazetec.org/hybrid-teaching/ Setup instructions: https://www.mazetec.org/article/google-slides-mazetec/ Features - Turn any presentation into a role play, game, quiz, or simulations with branching, points, time, and more. - Empower and engage with interactive branching, open ended choices, polling, forms, gamified activities and more! Create interactive questions that lead to other slides or forms. - Collaborate with colleagues on branching, content, choices, and more - Game mechanics to prompt pressure or strategy - Use it live with a group or individual activity/ exam - Works with Zoom, Teams, Articulate Storyline, Articulate Rise, and other integrations So many easy-to-use features for a dynamic experience your learners will love! - Add interactive branching choices to your slides and connect choices to consequences or slides - Add points and time rewards or penalties, limit the time, limit their points - Create a race against the clock by limiting the time. - Subtract more time for bad decisions - Add time for good decisions - Starting the learner with $100 and subtract $10 for each wrong decision and add $10 for each right decision. Link decisions to other slides or consequence nodes with choices. The user will restart if they fail before they pass. - Pipe choices forward - Create surveys and opened questions * Used by Top Universities! Engaged Learners! Amazing Feedback! * - Teach and test simultaneously by challenging learners to use what they know to navigate simulations you design. - Mobile ready and engineered for low bandwidth. *How does Mazetec integrate with Google Slides™?* 1. Bring your slides into Mazetec with the Google Slides™ plugin. 2. Enhance your presentation with branching choices and your own point system in just a few clicks! 3. Present or share with a link! And review your data! *ENGAGE YOUR LEARNERS WITH SO MANY AMAZING FEATURES!* - Branch slides o Create "right" and "wrong" decision paths for a dynamic real-world. o Pipe choices forward to the next slide for a customised experience o Crowd source choices - Consequences - Link to pitfalls, hints, and warnings. - Gamify - Define time and decision point values. o Build up pressures that can make real-life decisions more difficult - in just a few clicks. - Collaborate - invite and build with colleagues. - Surveys - Capture feedback with Surveys. - Analytics - see all the data and the user’s experience * Branching * - Build branching presentations with interactive questions and choices o Add choices to your slide o Assign points to choices o Crowdsource choices from users o Add crowdsourced choices right in the slide o Pipe answers forward o so much more! * Gamification * - Gamify with points and time o Simulate real-world pressures. o Show the impact of why decisions matter. o Adding points or time penalties or bonuses. o Create your own points or credit system o Assign penalties and bonuses to choices! * Access Control * - Advanced link and access controls! o Play live with a group 1. See live data 2. Download attendance list and scores o Create asynchronously links too 1. Limit access with passwords, dates, and more! * Analytics * - Tons of data! o Create custom reports to visually compare and categorise how people react under pressure in different scenarios and see people improve their decisions across multiple attempts. o Discover the choices that move people forward. o Lots of analytics are available o See when and where users leave the tab o See every choice made by your users o Crowd source choices with open-choices o Visually compare performance under pressure o See people improve decisions over time o Customise your analytics dashboard o Create custom visualisations o Review survey results * PRESENT & ENGAGE YOUR CLASS LIVE OR ASYNC WITH A LINK * When you’re ready, be sure to click “Present” in Mazetec. Students will join your Mazetec Session from any device in a web browser. Simply direct your students to your presentation link and enter their code. As you advance your slides, students will automatically sync with your screen, on each slide students will be prompted to answer your questions and their answers will appear on your instructor dashboard in real time! - Show anonymous responses on the screen - Give students a safe way to practice decisions and discuss the outcomes - Students respond to questions from their own devices in class or remotely - Async with a link for self-paced in class or at home. - Capture name and email or let students play anonymously For more information about Mazetec, visit www.mazetec.org