The best thing about Sketchup for Schools is that it saves student files to Drive, which means you can treat sketchup files a lot like Google Docs and manage the entire workflow using Google Classroom. In my case this involved sending the instructions to our awesome tech department (who administer our Google Workspace domain) and waiting for them to set it up before proceeding.
Enable Sketchup for Schools for your domain.This is necessary so that students can log in with their school email/google account. This was a pretty painless process and it didn’t take long. Students have access to the Solid Inspector tool which I m hoping will help improve success rates when 3d printing student files (at the moment we are focused on exporting to the laser cutter).It took a bit of doing to fine tune this process, but once we figured it out we were able to import student dxf files to 2D Design in order to laser cut them.
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It should be noted that Sketchup for Schools ( ) is different from the free online version of Sketchup ( ). OnShape was a great choice which I might blog about at another time, and despite some misgivings about the functionality of the online version of Sketchup it ended up facilitating an awesome workflow that I thought was worth sharing. After much dithering I finally committed to using OnShape Free with our IGCSE and IB students and Sketchup for Schools with out Year 7 to 9 students.
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This year we are focusing on how we can help support the different learning needs of your class. Last year our main focus was expanding from G Suite for Education to Microsoft Education. It’s time for back to school prep! Whether you’re teaching remotely this year, or you’re in the classroom, a new school year means exciting new features in SketchUp for Schools.