Make your PDFs and Worksheets Editable Online - Using Google Slides

[@jcawalton]

I had no idea you could change the size of a slide. This was worth watching for that tip alone. Thanks so much.

[@driveresources]

Once you switch to PowerPoint to create your resources, you'll NEVER GO BACK. Of course Google slides is the same. I prefer PowerPoint to create as there is more functionality. I can just upload them to my Google Drive and they instantly convert to slides. So much easier to share with students via Google. (But Microsoft is better for the creation side of things.)

[@graciesanroman7448]

💡TIP: You can also use Ctrl + D to Duplicate. Then you just drag the duplicated text box to the next blank space. Great video. Can't wait to share with the teachers in my district. 😊

[@suzannep.248]

💡TIP: If the "Click here" not pasting exactly where you want drives you a bit nutty as it does me ;) , click on the text box, then select Format (top toolbar), Align & Indent, and then select Middle. This way, whatever has been typed into the text box will show up in the middle of the box (from top to bottom). If you select "Center" the text will be will center-justified (from left to right). Excellent video - I'm subscribing to learn more!

[@TeachersTech]

Great tip!

[@roslynhill5514]

I ran into this exact situation last week with a pdf that my students couldn’t edit. Thank you for providing this solution!

[@christinemoyer8748]

Teacher's Tech is just what I needed to learn how to fully use Google Classroom. The instructor is clear, calm, and backs up the instruction with visuals. The pace is perfect for beginners. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!

[@behughes63]

Awesome. I had to watch this one twice, because there is a lot of great information. I picked up more tips by watching it a second time.

[@lisapettit7334]

Thanks so much for this tutorial. Your instructions are very easy to understand and I was able to be successful on my first try. My students are running out of printer ink, so this is a lifesaver!

[@roztolliver]

Thanks so much for this! It's a brilliant hack. I've been creating worksheets in Forms, so this is going to save me so much time.

[@kmross73]

Thank you so much! This distance learning has been really stressful and this video was very helpful. The instructions were concise and easy to follow.

[@ShirleyBorrelli]

Excellent! Everytime a question popped in my mind, you literally answered it in your next sentence. Thank you for being a pro! Very helpful as I prepare for remote learning.

[@markphillip9448]

this is absolutely brilliant!! It was just trying to find a way for students to do the worksheets on the screen and saw your video.Awesome.

[@lisanguyen1227]

This video is wonderful !!!! Thank you so very much. I teach 2nd grade and most of my students don't have the knowledge to know how to get in and edit their papers. You've made my day.

[@jentamal567]

This was AWESOME!!! Thank you sooooooo much!! Brief, simple, and to the point!!

[@annadifrancesco4254]

Finally, a user friendly video presentation. THANK YOU!

[@sandymilton7633]

God Bless You! Dinosaur teachers need folks like you to hold our hands!

[@rachelmckagan8270]

Excellent! EXACTLY what I needed!! Thanks!

[@chiaracicalese3311]

Wow, that was so easy, thank you for teaching this old dog a new trick.

[@jacquelineamaya3087]

Thank you. Thanks to your video I have been making worksheets the kids can fill in. Thank you also for showing how to send it to them in Google classroom.

[@CubFan313]

Thank you! I watched a few others and got nowhere. Yours was perfect!

[@emiliewhitehead4814]

You so easy to follow along with and to understand. You've become my HERO.

[@milliegeorge915]

Excellent. A solution to how students can fill in answers in a PDF file.

[@reneebrown3953]

Mind blown. I'm definitely using this! Thank you.

[@davidfiebert2335]

Finally! A video that actually worked for me. Great explanation of each step. You are definitely a teacher. Thank you.

[@driveresources]

I just screen snip the original page, hit COPY, then go to my document (I use PowerPoint), hit change background to paste the screen snip straight in. No need to save it or anything. Boom! PowerPoint is so much easier to use for creation of resources. I then upload to my Google Drive (where it becomes a slide of course) to share with students. Then I let the add their own text boxes (I like your idea of the 'click here' box though, especially if teaching younger students.

[@rickpalmer3340]

Could you fill the text box with a very pale grey to draw the students attention to where they need to start typing?

[@driveresources]

@@rickpalmer3340 If the original doc wasn't a pdf (eg you might just have a page from a word or ppt doc that you want to freeze so students don't accidentally delete or move anything) then you could do that in the original by filling say, the cell of a table where you want them to write, or if it's ppt then just insert a SHAPE and alter the colors of that. That way, when you screen shot it to copy as a background it'll be grey. I can't see the point in doing that though. Just tell the kids to insert a text box in any gap where they want to write something. Easy peasy.

[@thesocialworkpad]

This is the first video I found that discussed this trick and your explanation was clear and engaging. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This will help out as now we are teaching digitally. I have many ideas to use this with.

[@mamoonarandhawa1287]

Thank you very much for such a nice way of teaching teachers. I am a teacher who were finding it hard to use technology for future teaching. This is the first video I have watched and I believe your videos can help me to transition into blended teaching/learning era. I like your calm style of teaching. Thanks again.

[@danniemarcos3107]

Finally found the correct solution to most questions as to how to fill-in a PDF file! Wow! Awesome help, Sir! I will; share this to my co teachers as well. Great tip! Salute to you, as we are all migrating to Google G Suite for Education from MS.... :-)

[@thaidang2167]

Excellent video. I have learned and solved my problems before thanks to your video. Thank you very much for your training.

[@DrPsyc71]

Can I "like" this 20 times? I really appreciate your clear and concise directions. New subscriber! Blessings to you 😁

[@claudiatellez2206]

THANK YOU!! WOW...you have helped me so much! And my students!

[@badpplent]

Thanks a million.....Instructions were clear and on point.

[@darlenedionne1753]

Thanks for detailed steps to follow. It makes the directions easy to apply. Here's another tip: when starting, use plus sign to open a new presentation slide and use dropdown arrow to get to blank cell. Change page set up to 8.5 x 11. NOW SAVE THIS NEW TEMPLATE of blank cell and page size with a new name like NEW PRESENTATION TEMPLATE. Make a few copies of the blank slides. Make a copy of this presentation and RENAME IT WITH A NEW NAME like English 12A or whatever. Continue to create your slide presentation. The most important step in this process is to rename the slide TEMPLATE as soon as you open it. You will always have a new, blank slide ready with page set up for 8.5 x 11. It is a little shortcut.

[@bamideleonayemi672]

Awesome. Explosive. Well done. Just what I needed

[@patriciacorcoran8532]

Excellent information. I am just learning how to use google classroom and google drive thank you for the clear explanations.

[@TeachersTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@elsievaenz9531]

This gentleman explains everything soooooooooo clearly

[@maely7609]

Thank you for sharing. I learned a lot from this video. Thank you again.

[@sharonr892]

This was great! Downloaded as PowerPoint for Connect and worked great.

[@mariastamatelatos590]

This is exactly what I needed and will be so helpful. Thank You!!

[@deirdrecooksley9297]

Wow, what a helpful video! This is a game-changer!

[@darrahansen3875]

Wow! Thank you for taking your time when showing us how to transform a PDF into an Editable version. I think I understand how to do this.

[@nicolesheahan6359]

Thanks for sharing this -- I'm sharing with teachers in my school. A tip for you: You can change the Layout of the slide to Blank instead of deleting text boxes. Paying it forward!

[@dawndavis5935]

Gosh, thanks so much for this - I love that this is straightforward, no bedazzled distractions etc. So incredibly helpful for a teacher who did not grow up in the tech generation and desperately trying to keep up and help her students. A thousand thanks. I'm going to watch your others as well.

[@bbgood2000]

This is fantastic! Once I added a text box, in "filled" it with pale grey shading, so that the students see it.

[@laurafuhrmann422]

Incredibly helpful! Thank you!

[@jennymiller1773]

GREATEST GUY EVER...THANK YOU

[@pagecrew2film]

Nice clear video! Love to know your screencasting process and setup? Also,people should remember to make sure the permissions are set on the Google Slidedeck (anyone with the link - maybe on the school domain - can edit, not view).

[@catherineshah9399]

That was such a useful idea. I will surely use it for my students. I too wanted to make tutorial videos for my kids.So just wanted to know which software did u use wherein the screen cud b seen behind u and n u were seated in front. The idea was amazing.

[@patriciadove3556]

Thanks for all of the tips -it's very helpful during this remote learning experiment that we all find ourselves in at the moment. Using this for next weeks shared reading! Love it!

[@yolandadestefano2161]

Thank you! Finally, I got it! Great presentation!

[@mikealbritton3700]

Thank you. You've inspired me to try to go help somebody else. :)

[@patriciadamon9525]

Thank you so much for making PDF's editable :)

[@christinecrooks2404]

Thank you, your you tube video was clear and I liked how you took your time explaining clearing especially for beginners. Great Job!!!!

[@jennifersciacca3809]

This was A great tutorial... Very easy to follow

[@jeffkuperman6648]

Nice idea. Two suggestions: Instead of writing Click Here and forcing the kids to delete it, when you make the text box, just choose Border Color and instead of Transparent, give it a thin visible border. Also, Google "pdf to jpeg" - there are plenty of excellent, free online services that will easily convert a pdf to a png or jpeg quickly.

[@feminashaikh5053]

Wowww. That was amazing. Thank you for sharing such useful resources.

[@TCBfan62]

Very clear instructions, thank you.

[@edgardoramos1759]

Thank you so much, I know this takes lots of work. Really appreciate it.

[@moniqueteal6226]

Thank you so much!! This saving me so much time as I can now utilize all my PDF's and not have to make my own!!

[@yocelinperez5389]

Omg!! I just started remote learning and this was so helpful!!!

[@katrinamcgregor2300]

Thank you so much! This was so very, very helpful to me.

[@jerelynthomas9292]

This is awesome! I got it - had to save my snippets as jpegs.

[@preerconsultingcoachp]

This was sooo great! Thank you for sharing.

[@SUNITASINGH-if1hz]

Very nice and informative.....excellent explanation...

[@atlenta1]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I love your presentations.

[@saraolds4907]

Oh my heavens! I have been searching for months on a way to have students label maps! You're my hero!!! Thank you!

[@evelynmachucariovistaes9865]

Thank you so much for making this easy!

[@sheerenecelaire3652]

Thx, awesome!

[@marciaholness821]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you.

[@samanthabennett8981]

For special education students, the document reader must be able to read the text. When you use a jpg, it sees the text as a photograph. Any tips on how to do this and maintain the readability of the text for students who need read-aloud accommodations?

[@ethelynwess5508]

Thank you for this!!!

[@rachelle_banks]

I'm only 2 and a half minutes in and this information has alREADY opened up so many more possibilities!! Thank you, Sir.!

[@maveric5381]

Just a quick 'Thank You' for all your videos.

[@TeachersTech]

Glad you like them!

[@lisabrewer7825]

Your videos are so helpful! ❤

[@HanhTruong-eh9df]

Thank you. I did the exactly same thing like you but how come my worksheet come out blurry. How can we fix that? Thank you so much for all your help.

[@sarapriestley6071]

Can you please do a video about how you made this video? I am a teacher of the Deaf and would love to be able to insert myself into the video so I can use sign language to explain the work. Thank you.

[@valeriagutierrez1624]

Sara Priestley you can use screencastify or look up for any screen recorder. Most of them are very user friendly and very easy to work with

[@denisewoerner6431]

When using Screencastify, select embed webcam, that activates the device camera on you. You can drag the window with yourself in it to wherever you want it to appear as you record your computer screen.

[@sarapriestley6071]

@@valeriagutierrez1624 Thank you

[@sarapriestley6071]

@@denisewoerner6431 Thank you

[@lane1962]

Very interesting and useful, thank you for sharing.

[@yolandasaenz9583]

This video was extremely helpful. Thank you so much for making it easy to follow and understand.

[@deannabrady3897]

Thank you! I just made my first PDF into a fill-in worksheet. WHOA!

[@DavidVillarrealAngler]

Thank you, Just what we were looking for.

[@juliasimmons1872]

OMG! I've watched about five of your videos one after another. You are so clear and succinct!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

[@jayceeeducational9086]

Two thumbs up!

[@anothercitizen4867]

You can also use the tool to outline the box in any color so students can see where to type the answer

[@1961debz]

Thank you so much. This is amazing, just what I was looking for.

[@kieshastewart3209]

Awesome! Thanks so Much for the video.

[@lherrera21]

Very instructive material. Thanks!

[@TeachersTech]

You are welcome!

[@beeeej83]

This was GREAT! Easy to follow. One question though. Because the pdf is changed to a image, it pixels out when you zoom in on the finished product. Is there a way to fix that??? Or did I did I miss a step. I did it more than once to make sure, but... Thanks for any help!

[@josieyee2078]

thank you so much !

[@victoriaLL345]

Thank you! The background trick...genius.

[@aizaaquino9851]

This is brilliant! Thanks

[@raineynight]

Great info. I've had issues where some students could not type on the document. Why would that be? Thanks!

[@kimmidkiff8788]

You can also add a border to the text boxes, or fill then with a light color, and add to the directions to "put your answer in the green boxes"; that way students don't have to delete the "type here" text. Great video tute!!!

[@sharitzavega1053]

Saved me!!! Thank you so much

[@danielatosta4726]

Awesome! Please post more videos.

[@wilmamaglapuz4010]

thanks for sharing..use ful in class sir

[@tamitaber7627]

this is great

[@fabianabarker655]

Wonderful! thank you so much

[@karenbrink4881]

Just what I needed thank you !

[@mathgirl911]

How did you present this with your head in the presentation?

[@andreathorpe7035]

Looks like he’s using Screencastify.

[@jenniferbaumgartner7898]

This is awesome. Thanks for this workshop. I am going to use this for next week's lesson.

[@tudobemserdiferente-infinito]

Thanks for sharing your ideas with us! Great tutorial, exactly what I was looking for to create my materials! Keep on doing the good work! Love and respect all the way from Brazil! :0)