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Drawp for School now integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom allowing educators to sync their Google Classroom classes with Drawp. With this integration, students can now access Drawp assignments from Google Classroom.

When students swipe to submit work to their teacher in Drawp, assignments are automatically submitted in Google Classroom as well. This easy, integrated workflow saves time for teachers and students.

To get started using Google Classroom with Drawp, log into your DrawpforSchool.com account and connect your Google Classroom account by going to the Drawp settings. See step-by-step directions below for how to connect a Google Classroom account and how to import classes and students from Google Classroom.

How to Connect Your Google Classroom Account

First, you’ll need to connect your Google Classroom account with your Drawp for School account. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log into Drawp for School https://app.drawpforschool.com/teacher/login/ using your Drawp credentials.

2. Navigate to the “Settings” page.

3. Find the “Connected Accounts” section located at the bottom of the Settings page and select the “CONNECT” button next to the “Google account:” label.

4. Select your Google Classroom account from the listed accounts, or choose “Use another account” to add your Google Classroom account if it’s not in the list.

5. Select “Allow” to accept the scopes that drawpforschool.com requests.

6. Once a successful connection is established you should see your Google Classroom account shown as connected in the “Google account:” section.

How to Import Data from Google Classroom

Once your Google Classroom account is connected, you can start importing your data from Google Classroom. To do that, you should:

1. Select the “Import” button from the “Google account” section within the “Connected accounts” in your Settings page.

2. Choose “Import” from the dialog presented.

3. Select the courses from which you would like to import your students.

4. Once you have the courses selected, choose “Import” and you’ll see activity in the progress next to each course. Please do not close this dialog until the progress bar reaches 100 percent for all of the courses you chose to be imported (otherwise some student data might not get imported).

5. Once the progress bar for all of the courses that you have selected gets to 100 percent, you can close the dialog.

6. Navigate to the “My Classes” page and you’ll see a “Change school” option shown next to the name of your school.

7. Select it, and you’ll get a list of schools (your actual school and a “Google Classroom” school), with the current active school pre-selected. For each teacher, all of the imported data from Google Classroom will be under the “Google Classroom” school. To switch to that school, choose the “Google Classroom” option from the “Select School” dialog and press “Select.”

8. Now you’ll see the course that you selected to be imported from Google Classroom in step No. 3.

9. To switch to another school, use the same “Change School” option.

10. To see the students that are imported from Google Classroom, select a class and navigate to the “Student Groups” section.

11. Select the student group and a list of students will be shown. To see the student’s connected Gmail account, hover over the Gmail icon.

12. Now students can log into Drawp using their connected Gmail accounts, and they’ll have access in Drawp to the courses to which they belong.

For more information about other Drawp for School integrations, see these posts:

Google Sign In

Microsoft School Data Sync

Microsoft Single Sign On

Reach Students Wherever They Are

Drawp for School is an all-in-one K-12 platform for creation, collaboration, content, and workflow for teachers and students. It includes rich design tools, voice features, swipe-to-share collaboration and cloud storage that works with any curriculum and supports any skill level.

The Drawp ELL Tool supports ELL students and allows teachers to give students personalized scaffolding in a heterogeneous classroom.  

Drawp’s Resource Marketplace gives teachers a platform for sharing standards-aligned lesson plans.

Drawp is partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Available on any platform and for any device.  

For more information email [email protected] or visit www.DrawpforSchool.com.

Drawp for School is now integrated with Microsoft School Data Sync (SDS). Teachers and Admins can use their Microsoft credentials to import user profiles and rosters for schools and individual classes. This new way of creating online classrooms and users will save time for all Drawp for School users.  

Earlier this year, Drawp rolled out Microsoft Single Sign On (SSO) which allows users to connect their Microsoft and Drawp for School accounts so that users can sign in with their Microsoft accounts. Now, with Microsoft SDS, teachers can import student rosters into Drawp to streamline their data. Once the student roster is imported, students can use their Microsoft usernames and passwords to sign into their Drawp accounts.

Below is a How To Guide for Using Microsoft SDS for teachers and admins. Note that teachers must get consent from Admins to access SDS imports. (See more complete directions below.) Once teachers have admin consent, teachers can go to the settings in their Drawp account to connect their Drawp account to their Microsoft school account. Then teachers simply click on an import button and choose their classes from a drop down menu. All selected student rosters are then added to Drawp for School.

Important things to note about using Microsoft SDS:

Microsoft SDS is available in the web app, in the user's Settings page, for the users who have connected their Microsoft accounts with their Drawp accounts

The imported students can use their Microsoft accounts to log into Drawp (accounts for the imported students get automatically connected to their new Drawp accounts created)

The imported data will be auto-synced daily. The admins/teachers can turn that feature off.

There are two different ways to import data from Microsoft SDS into Drawp for School:

1. Individual teachers can import their data (school, select courses, students)

Teachers have option to select which courses they want to be imported and according to that the school and student data will be imported as well

For this we need to have admin's consent first which can be granted on the admin portal available at https://app.drawpforschool.com/connected-apps/microsoft/admin/login/

2. Microsoft organization admins can import the data for the whole organization (district or school)

Admins have option to select for which school they want to import data

Admin's portal for importing data can be accessed at https://app.drawpforschool.com/connected-apps/microsoft/admin/login/

Here are more detailed step-by-step instructions for teachers, students and admins - with screenshots.  

How to import student rosters using Microsoft SDS - for teachers:

1. Go to www.drawpforschool.com and sign up for a new account or log into existing regular Drawp for School account.

2. When logged in, tap on your name at the top right of the screen and choose “settings” from the drop down menu.

3. Scroll down to the “Connected Accounts” section and click on the green “Connect” button. 

4. This link takes you to the Microsoft sign in screen where you can enter your Microsoft education email and password. 

Note: for Single Sign On, you can use your personal or work Microsoft email accounts to sign in, but for School Data Sync imports, you can only use your Microsoft education email account.

5. Note that for subsequent sign ins to Drawp for School you can use the “Connect with Microsoft” button at the bottom of the Drawp for School login page:

6. Once you have signed in with your Microsoft education credentials, your Drawp for School and Microsoft accounts are connected. You can check to confirm connection back on the Drawp for School settings screen. This screen shows you are connected. 

(Note: Turn the “Active Data Sync” button to “on” to activate automatic daily data sync updates. Or click it to “off” to turn off the automatic daily data sync.)

7. On the same screen, you can click on the green import button to start importing student rosters from Microsoft SDS and this popup window will appear. Click on the green “Import” button. 

Note: At this point, you will be prompted to secure admin consent to access the data if you have not previously done so. See “How to set up Microsoft SDS for Admins” below if needed.

8. If you have admin consent to access the school/class data, then the next step is to choose which classes’ data you would like to import. A list of your classes is shown and you can check the box next to each applicable one:

Important: Closing the browser or pop up before the import is complete will cancel the data import.

Once the import is complete, students can begin signing into Drawp for School using their Microsoft credentials.  

Note: To see the imported classes, teachers can go to the “My Classes tab” and the class blocks will appear.

Note: Teachers can belong to multiple schools using Microsoft SDS. See or change your school by checking the school name or “Change School” button at the top left of the screen:

How to set up Microsoft SDS - for Admins

Admins can go to this link to give consent access to Drawp for School: https://app.drawpforschool.com/connected-apps/microsoft/admin/login/

Note: Admins can only login with their Microsoft admin account.

Once admins have given consent to the Drawp for School account, they can click on the “Import” button and check which schools’ roster data they’d like to import:

How to log into Drawp for School as Student using Microsoft SSO:

Note: When logging into Drawp for School as a student, using Microsoft credentials, students are not required to enter their school name.  

Students simply need to click on the “Connect with Microsoft” button at the bottom of the student login screen or the “find your school” screen:

They’ll be taken to the Microsoft Single Sign On page where they can enter their Microsoft credentials to access Drawp:

For general information about Microsoft School Data Sync, go to the Microsoft SDS website. 

If you have any questions about using Drawp for School with Microsoft SDS or Microsoft SSO, please contact us at [email protected]. 

- Julie Brannon

Drawp for School is a workflow management platform with built-in design tools, swipe-to-share collaboration and unlimited cloud storage. Students use Drawp’s creativity tools to add drawings, voice recordings, text and photos to assignments. Teachers use Drawp to create, distribute, collect and give feedback on assignments. The Drawp for School platform includes the Drawp Resource Marketplace, an easy-to-access repository of educational resources.

Drawp has partnered with Microsoft to launch Microsoft Single Sign On (SSO) for the Drawp for School platform.

With Microsoft SSO, Drawp users can:

Sign in to any Drawp for School application using their existing Microsoft personal, work or school accounts. 

Existing Drawp users can connect their Drawp account to a Microsoft account via their profile page. Once the connection is established they can use the Microsoft Single Sign-On feature to log in to their Drawp account. There is no need to remember a separate set of Drawp credentials. 

New users can use the the Microsoft Single Sign-On feature to create a new Drawp account.

If you have questions about using Microsoft SSO, please email us at [email protected]. 

- Julie Brannon

Drawp for School is a workflow management platform with built-in design tools, swipe-to-share collaboration and unlimited cloud storage. Students use Drawp’s creativity tools to add drawings, voice recordings, text and photos to assignments. Teachers use Drawp to create, distribute, collect and give feedback on assignments. The Drawp for School platform includes a newly launched Drawp Resource Marketplace website that provides teachers with an easy-to-access repository of educational resources to share and download.

This month Drawp for School rolled out a new time-saving feature. Teachers can now easily create a full Lesson Plan by clicking on the “Publish to Resource Marketplace” button on any Drawp assignment. 

The Drawp Resource Marketplace is a repository of education resources from publishers as well as teachers. In the marketplace, teachers can create, browse, search, access and import Common Core-aligned Lesson Plans. Teacher-created Lesson Plans can be shared publicly, limited to viewing within a school, or set to private.  

The steps below show you how to find the “Publish to Resource Marketplace” button and create the Lesson Plan. 

1. Go to www.DrawpforSchool.com and sign into your teacher account.

2. Go to My Classes.

3. Click on the class that contains assignment you’d like to use: 

4. Find the Assignment you’d like to port to a lesson plan, but don’t click on the class block. Instead, click on the up arrow button. 

(Note: If you rollover the up arrow button a message will appear: “Publish to Resource Marketplace” and the Assignment will turn green)

5. Voila! As soon as you click on the up arrow button, a new Lesson Plan screen will open:

The title will auto-populate in the new lesson plan with information from the original Assignment. 

The Activities section will auto-populate with the original Assignment Description. 

The canvases from the assignment will be automatically uploaded to the new lesson plan. 

You can easily edit any of the auto-filled fields.  

6. You can then enter the rest of the optional information including:

Objectives

Materials

Evaluation

Grades

Standards

Tags

7. Then choose to publish the Lesson Plan as private, public, or to your school only, by checking the appropriate box.

8. Then click the green Submit button. Once the Lesson Plan is approved by an admin, it will appear in the Drawp Resource Marketplace.  

For more information about using Drawp for School, email [email protected].

Drawp for School is a workflow management platform with built-in design tools, swipe-to-share collaboration and unlimited cloud storage. Teachers use Drawp to create, distribute, collect and give feedback on assignments. Students use Drawp’s creativity tools to add drawings, voice recordings, text and photos to assignments. The Drawp for School platform includes a newly launched Drawp Resource Marketplace website that provides teachers with an easy-to-access repository of educational resources to share and download.

As part of our ongoing interview series, this week we interviewed Magdalena Ruz Gonzalez, a leader in bilingual education.   

Magdalena Ruz Gonzalez has been in the field of 
education for more than 35 years, and recently
 retired from the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). 
Her work with bilingual children, English learners (ELs) struggling with literacy, and ELs with special needs has 
helped her identify key practices. As a Newcomer Teacher, she witnessed success using  primary language instruction with ELs of limited formal education from the home country. As an ESL teacher, she understood the power of scaffolding materials when the language did not match the ELs home language. As a bilingual teacher, she saw how languages could flourish if properly attended to. She also saw failures and frustrations across the many classrooms she visited as an administrator and as a teacher herself when she was told “English only.”

During her time at LACOE she developed “A Tool for Scaffolding Instruction for English Learners”. Recently, she wrote “Families Learning Together”, a practical literacy guide for preschool through fifth grade to support families’ efforts in their children’s learning by advancing English through the promotion of the home language.

Her passions includes working with districts on ensuring procedural safeguards of interventions, multi-tiered system of support for ELs that include native language and non-biased assessments. She is currently working on an NSF grant with Drawp CEO and Founder Ana Albir around Newcomers and their instructional support with the use of technology and the transfer of English and Spanish.

Magdalena has a Bilingual Bicultural Studies as well as an Elementary Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Education in Reading and 
Learning Disabilities with emphasis on bilingual children 
and has completed coursework towards a doctorate in education and social policy at Claremont Graduate Schools.

You’ve been working in education for more than 35 years, particularly in bilingual education. How did you become interested in the field and how has the field changed over the years?

This is a good question because it is a combination of different events that led to my decision to choose a university that specialized in bilingual education in 1975. In high school, I took French my first two years instead of Spanish. Orally, I could communicate but I had never learned to read in my home language of Spanish. What I discovered in learning French was that once you learn to read in one language, in my case English, you don’t have to learn to read again in the second language. Once my high school offered Spanish 5 and 6, I skipped 1-4 and took the plunge into classical reading. It was not easy, but because I could read classics in English, I could do so in Spanish. This transference is one of the principles of bilingual education! This triggered an interest in languages and hence in bilingual education. Later, bilingual special education became a passion and still is.

The field of bilingual education has had its advocates and there are parts of this country that have always had bilingual education. NABE is still alive and supports bilingual education. Other states or districts have bent to the politics of the time and even eliminated any support in the primary language. Many universities that offered a bilingual credential eliminated this option because of low numbers with the only way to obtain the authorization was through testing. But in the last ten years there has been a wave of support for dual immersion programs which comes from mainstream educators and parents wanting bilingualism for their monolingual English speaking children. This, of course, helps the English learner as they are included as role models of language.

Now, with the current politics, I cannot predict what roadblocks educators and parents will encounter in establishing these programs.

What data do we have about English Language Learners today?  

The 2014-15 national data collected by the federal government (https://eddataexpress.ed.gov/index.cfm) indicates that English Learners (ELs) represent 25% of school age children with a range from states: Louisiana reporting 5% to Connecticut and Pennsylvania with 34%. California held steady at 33%. On ELs attaining English proficiency (Title III receiving local education agency)  national data is difficult to interpret since there is no national criteria on the types of assessments nor criteria thresholds. However, what is reported is New York state with 85% of their ELs obtaining proficiency to the lowest with Maine at 7.8%.

We have less immigrants coming to the US in certain states, and an influx in certain parts where they have never had this experience. For instance, there are far less emerging level ELs entering kinder in some districts in Los Angeles than in the past. These current ELs were born in the U.S. and are coming in at the expanding/intermediate level with some gaps in their vocabulary. The immigrant students with interrupted or limited formal schooling (SIFE) has also been a concern, entering in 2014, since they do not “fit” into the regular school program offered. These students coming from Central America and the Middle East pose a challenge for districts with few resources, especially when they settle in rural areas. Then of course, we have the created “curriculum casualties” our Long-term English Learners- students who have not been able to be successful and are entering the middle/high school. These students have been with the district since elementary. There are many causes as to why this is occurring. In some areas, more than 50% of the 9th graders are these Long Term ELs. Dr. Laurie Olsen has done extensive work in this area.

You recently wrote a book called “Families Learning Together” for families of children who are learning English. Can you tell me more about the book and why you wrote it?

The book supports parents efforts in assisting their child at home with homework. Explanations are given in a simple, straightforward manner with sample templates. For example, steps of how to read with children, how to guide them in editing a writing assignment, and also how to extend assignments in fun creative ways are the many ways parents can support learning. I tell the parents that they are creating mental tools for their children to use at school. The book is written for the parents in Spanish and in Chinese with the idea that they are going to conduct all the activities in the language they know best. I explain that these activities transfer to school, as research points out. The English version is primarily for school site professionals who will conduct sessions with parents on the book or other language groups, including of course English speaking parents.

I wrote this because as teacher, as an administrator and as a principal, I saw the need for parents and families to have these tools. When I would provide these types of mini-workshops, they would learn and tell me how easy it was to apply the lessons with their children.

While working at the Los Angeles County Office of Education you developed “A Tool for Scaffolding Instruction for English Learners.” How does that tool work and why did you create it?

The tool is a set of sentence frames organized by three levels of language proficiency, cognitive levels (instruction) and depths of knowledge (assessment). It was first developed for teachers to use with English Learners so the English version is organized by California’s three levels. The subsequent versions in Spanish, Chinese, and Korean were designed for dual immersion classrooms and also match up to the first three levels of ACTFL.

I wanted to create this because I saw a need for more oral language interaction at the secondary levels. This tool provides teachers a place to start not only orally but also with writing. It can supplement any content. But as teachers, they also need to observe students to determine when to discontinue these scaffolds.

You are currently working with Ana Albir, Drawp CEO & Founder, on a National Science Foundation funded research project to develop a digital transfer tool for newcomer students. What are the goals of this research?

The goals are to determine the efficacy of this cutting-edge digital technology Drawp with scaffold tools for language acquisition.  In particular, the grant will examine the hypothesis that Spanish-speaking students learn more effectively when given native-language educational tools. Research on language transfers promotes this practice. Since these newcomers may have gaps in their primary language, using first Spanish will solidify the concept, for instance a comparison of two ideas, before they use the same sentence frame in English.

- Julie Brannon

Read more about the Drawp for School NSF SBIR Language Transfer Tool research project here.

Drawp for School is a workflow management platform with built-in design tools, swipe-to-share collaboration and unlimited cloud storage. Teachers use Drawp to create, distribute, collect and give feedback on assignments. Students use Drawp’s creativity tools to add drawings, voice recordings, text and photos to assignments. The Drawp for School platform includes a newly launched Drawp Resource Marketplace website that provides teachers with an easy-to-access repository of educational resources to share and download.

Drawp for School team members will be meeting with more than 40,000 educators at two upcoming educational technology conferences: BETT in London and FETC in Orlando, Florida; both scheduled for January 25-27, 2017. We’d love to meet with you too!

Founded 30 years ago, BETT will draw more than 34,000 educators and techies, 528 speakers, and 700 exhibitors from more than 138 countries to discuss new ideas in educational technology. The London, UK conference covers early ed to higher ed. The keynote speaker this year is Sir Ken Robinson talking about how to transform the nation’s troubled education system:

“Having enlightened, educated, inspired and amused us back in 2015, we’re on the edge of our seats in anticipation of what he has to say about the current state of affairs, in which standardised testing businesses are raking in huge profits, while schools everywhere are really feeling the strain (which doesn’t seem remotely fair).”  - BETT 2017 website

The Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) is held annually in Orlando, Florida, and this year more than 8,000 PreK-12 educators will attend. The event promises 400 best practices sessions, 160 in-depth workshops, and a hands-on Expo Hall. This year’s keynote is a fast-paced live Tech Share with four trainers. 

"FETC is a storytelling event. This is not a sales conference, orchestrated by vendors to sell products. This is real educators, real people in the trenches, telling real stories. I strongly encourage all educators and administrators to attend." — Brett Thomason, Technical Coordinator, Sarasota Academy of the Arts, Sarasota, Fla. - FETC website

If you are visiting either conference, stop by our booth for a free demo! 

You can find us here:

Drawp for School BETT London stand: E52

Drawp for School FETC Orlando booth: 416

- Julie Brannon