Learning Google Scripts
Google Apps let you do lots of amazing things, but what do you do when you need to customize them for a particular task, or something that no one else is doing? The answer is to use Google Scripts. The following tutorials have three purposes:
- To help you get up and running with Google Scripts
- To show you how you can use Scripts to automate formative feedback
- To help you find tools and resources to continue learning about Scripts on your own
Click on a lesson below for a written tutorial demonstrating the lesson. You can also click here to see all of the lessons in a single Google Doc in case you want to print them out. On the right are all of the Examples used and some Challenges to test your learning.
- Lesson 1 – “Hello World!”
- Lesson 2 – Challenge: Calling Functions
- Lesson 3 – Variables
- Lesson 4 – Variable Passing
- Lesson 5 – Variable Passing Challenge
- Lesson 6 – Arrays of Variables
- Lesson 7 – Modifying a Google Doc
- Lesson 8 – Modify Doc and Send Email
- Lesson 9 – Simple Feedback script
- Lesson 10 – Full-scale feedback