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Customising Google Apps with Google Apps
Script
Presented at
Martin Hawksey
This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
License. CC-BY mhawksey

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About
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Dr. Tony Hirst
The Open University
@psychemedia
ouseful.info
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Dr. Tony Hirst
The Open University
@psychemedia
ouseful.info
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Dr. Tony Hirst
The Open University
@psychemedia
ouseful.info
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Say hello to Google Apps Script
CC-BY Google – Google Apps Script, 13-03-2012
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11 Google apps, 1 platform in the cloud
Increase the power of your favorite Google apps —
like Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail, and Sheets.
Apps Script lets you do more with Google. All on a JavaScript platform in
the cloud.

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Code in the cloud
◊ Standalone Scripts
script.google.com
Google Drive > Create > Script
◊ Container-bound
– Google Documents, Sheets, Forms
Tools > Script editor
– Google Sites
More > Manage Site > Apps Script
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A brief history
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2009
Scripts in Sheets
Custom functions
2010
UiApp
Web Apps (run as developer)
Script Gallery*
2011
Scripts in Sites
GUI Builder*
More services
2012
Standalone scripts
HTMLSerivce
ScriptDb*
Web Apps (run as user)
Libraries and versioning
Content Service
Chrome Web Store
2013
Scripts in Doc
Scripts in Forms
Auth flow
More services
2014
Add-on for Documents and Sheets
* Denotes deprecated services/features
Adapted from Wesley Chun’s Google Apps Script

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Some Examples

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Google Form Created
for Assessment
As part of an effort to re-design an
observational assessment, tutors
had identified that the quality and
speed of feedback needed to be
improved. After consultation, it was
suggested that an existing paper
form could be replaced by a
Google Form and completed ‘live’
using tablet devices.
See the form here.
Apps Script Written for
Feedback Delivery
Following the creation of the Google
Form, Apps Script was written that
generates an HTML formatted
feedback report and emails it to the
student, School administrator and
themselves as soon as the tutor
submits. As a result, students would
receive individual, legible and
immediate feedback directly to their
email account as opposed to
waiting days to collect it from the
administrative office.
See the script here.
Apps Script Shared with
Colleagues
As this idea is highly adaptable,
sharing the script with colleagues
has led to suggestions of how other
processes could be modified. As it is
now used for 4 other purposes within
this School alone, a responsive
webpage (hosted using Google
Drive) has been created to allow
staff to move between forms from a
single point of access, regardless of
device.
See the form selector webpage here.
During the 2013/4 academic year, staff from across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, called for
assistance in relation to existing procedures involving assessment, feedback and the general dissemination of electronic
materials. Following consultation, several solutions were trialed, mainly focusing upon technologies familiar to staff and at Keele
(i.e. Blackboard, IntraLibrary, PebblePad and Google Apps for Education). As more demands were made, it became clear that
Google Apps for Education provided the most flexible and intuitive solution, giving rise to the idea that Google has the potential
to provide the most complete learning platform; the GLE.
Below is one example of the types of intervention Google Apps for Education afforded. For information about other
Google projects, please see http://goo.gl/9vMgHj.

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Google Form Created
for Assessment
As part of an effort to re-design an
observational assessment, tutors
had identified that the quality and
speed of feedback needed to be
improved. After consultation, it was
suggested that an existing paper
form could be replaced by a
Google Form and completed ‘live’
using tablet devices.
See the form here.
Apps Script Written for
Feedback Delivery
Following the creation of the Google
Form, Apps Script was written that
generates an HTML formatted
feedback report and emails it to the
student, School administrator and
themselves as soon as the tutor
submits. As a result, students would
receive individual, legible and
immediate feedback directly to their
email account as opposed to
waiting days to collect it from the
administrative office.
See the script here.
Apps Script Shared with
Colleagues
As this idea is highly adaptable,
sharing the script with colleagues
has led to suggestions of how other
processes could be modified. As it is
now used for 4 other purposes within
this School alone, a responsive
webpage (hosted using Google
Drive) has been created to allow
staff to move between forms from a
single point of access, regardless of
device.
See the form selector webpage here.
During the 2013/4 academic year, staff from across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, called for
assistance in relation to existing procedures involving assessment, feedback and the general dissemination of electronic
materials. Following consultation, several solutions were trialed, mainly focusing upon technologies familiar to staff and at Keele
(i.e. Blackboard, IntraLibrary, PebblePad and Google Apps for Education). As more demands were made, it became clear that
Google Apps for Education provided the most flexible and intuitive solution, giving rise to the idea that Google has the potential
to provide the most complete learning platform; the GLE.
Below is one example of the types of intervention Google Apps for Education afforded. For information about other
Google projects, please see http://goo.gl/9vMgHj.

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Google Form Created
for Assessment
As part of an effort to re-design an
observational assessment, tutors
had identified that the quality and
speed of feedback needed to be
improved. After consultation, it was
suggested that an existing paper
form could be replaced by a
Google Form and completed ‘live’
using tablet devices.
See the form here.
Apps Script Written for
Feedback Delivery
Following the creation of the Google
Form, Apps Script was written that
generates an HTML formatted
feedback report and emails it to the
student, School administrator and
themselves as soon as the tutor
submits. As a result, students would
receive individual, legible and
immediate feedback directly to their
email account as opposed to
waiting days to collect it from the
administrative office.
See the script here.
Apps Script Shared with
Colleagues
As this idea is highly adaptable,
sharing the script with colleagues
has led to suggestions of how other
processes could be modified. As it is
now used for 4 other purposes within
this School alone, a responsive
webpage (hosted using Google
Drive) has been created to allow
staff to move between forms from a
single point of access, regardless of
device.
See the form selector webpage here.
During the 2013/4 academic year, staff from across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, called for
assistance in relation to existing procedures involving assessment, feedback and the general dissemination of electronic
materials. Following consultation, several solutions were trialed, mainly focusing upon technologies familiar to staff and at Keele
(i.e. Blackboard, IntraLibrary, PebblePad and Google Apps for Education). As more demands were made, it became clear that
Google Apps for Education provided the most flexible and intuitive solution, giving rise to the idea that Google has the potential
to provide the most complete learning platform; the GLE.
Below is one example of the types of intervention Google Apps for Education afforded. For information about other
Google projects, please see http://goo.gl/9vMgHj.

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Google Form Created
for Assessment
As part of an effort to re-design an
observational assessment, tutors
had identified that the quality and
speed of feedback needed to be
improved. After consultation, it was
suggested that an existing paper
form could be replaced by a
Google Form and completed ‘live’
using tablet devices.
See the form here.
Apps Script Written for
Feedback Delivery
Following the creation of the Google
Form, Apps Script was written that
generates an HTML formatted
feedback report and emails it to the
student, School administrator and
themselves as soon as the tutor
submits. As a result, students would
receive individual, legible and
immediate feedback directly to their
email account as opposed to
waiting days to collect it from the
administrative office.
See the script here.
Apps Script Shared with
Colleagues
As this idea is highly adaptable,
sharing the script with colleagues
has led to suggestions of how other
processes could be modified. As it is
now used for 4 other purposes within
this School alone, a responsive
webpage (hosted using Google
Drive) has been created to allow
staff to move between forms from a
single point of access, regardless of
device.
See the form selector webpage here.
During the 2013/4 academic year, staff from across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, called for
assistance in relation to existing procedures involving assessment, feedback and the general dissemination of electronic
materials. Following consultation, several solutions were trialed, mainly focusing upon technologies familiar to staff and at Keele
(i.e. Blackboard, IntraLibrary, PebblePad and Google Apps for Education). As more demands were made, it became clear that
Google Apps for Education provided the most flexible and intuitive solution, giving rise to the idea that Google has the potential
to provide the most complete learning platform; the GLE.
Below is one example of the types of intervention Google Apps for Education afforded. For information about other
Google projects, please see http://goo.gl/9vMgHj.

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Add-ons

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Add-ons overview
http://youtu.be/lZqX6ocwHWU
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Don’t hate, automate
What parts of learning and teaching would you like
to automate?
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Google Classroom

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Google Classroom
http://youtu.be/K26iyyQMp_g
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Support Communities
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Summary

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On?
◊ Add-ons … not on
◊ DriveApp … not on
◊ … not on
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Opportunity
◊ Code
– “wonderful to create machines with your mind” Dave
Winer
◊ Consume
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Useful resources
◊ Google Apps Script docs
– Issue tickets
– Release notes
◊ Communities
– Google+ Communities
– Stackoverflow
– Google Enterprise Connect
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