It's easy for anyone that's new in the field of education to underestimate the importance of record keeping. While keeping good records can take a lot of work and effort up front, it will save you a great deal of time and work in years to come.

Google Docs is a great tool for classroom record keeping, because it supports a variety of document types, and for the advanced user it even lets you automate many tasks that would otherwise be time consuming and tedious.

Google Docs can become a great replacement for expensive academic record keeping software, and it's even better than software, because as an online application it lets you access those records from just about anywhere that you have Internet.

DEC supports and promotes the use of Google Docs in New South Wales Schools:

• http://www.educational-freeware.com/news/google-records.aspx

This infographic is from a survey of 180 design pros, shows favored apps in their daily toolkits

Maybe the most striking thing here is how little Microsoft you see – MS Word, for example, is barely an afterthought.

Google Cloud Print (GCP) allows printing from any Google Cloud Print-enabled apps on any Chrome device, computer, or smart phone. The Google Cloud Print service routes print jobs between apps and cloud-connected printers. Google Cloud Print enables users to easily discover and print to printers nearby or around the world without the need for complex setup and driver installation

• http://lifehacker.com/5882060/google-cloud-print-its-actually-awesome-and-heres-how-to-set-it-up
• http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/howitworks.html

Currently, users can print to Google Cloud Print through the following:

• Chrome browser on Chrome devices (support for Chrome browsers in other platforms is coming soon!)
• Mobile versions of Google apps including Google Docs and Spreadsheets
• Gmail (through web browser on mobile device)
• 3rd-party native mobile apps on the Android and iOS platforms

• Google Cloud Printing: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1069693
• Centralised management: http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1331549
• Cloud print apps list: http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/apps.html
• Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/cloud-printer/
• ChromeBook - Google devices: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/education/devices/