U-M Google Updates

Customize headers and footers in Google Docs

7/31/2019

Google has announced more options to control and customize headers and footers in Google Docs. 

Previously, you could set a single header or single footer for your entire document, with an option to make it different on the first page only. Now you can:

  • define a specific header or footer for each section of your document
  • use different headers and footers on odd and even page numbers

GIF showing steps to customize Google Doc headers and footers

To learn how to use different headers or footers per page, visit the Google Help Center page.

According to Google, this feature should begin showing up in U-M Google on August 1 and should take 1 to 3 days to become fully visible.

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Interested in our latest updates about Google G Suite at U-M? Check out the Google Service Updates page.

Revamped home for all your G Suite apps

7/29/2019

Did you know that you can see a list of all the core and approved U-M Google apps in the G Suite Dashboard? After a recent redesign from Google, this page is now easier to navigate, with a search bar that allows you to quickly find the apps you’re looking for.

If you prefer to navigate to your apps via this Dashboard, you can bookmark it for quick access in the future. Visit the G Suite Help Center for more information.

Screenshot of the new U-M Google G Suite App Dashboard

According to Google, this feature began showing up in U-M Google on July 9 and could take 15 days or longer to become fully visible.

Import questions from other Google Forms

7/22/2019

Google has announced they will be adding the ability to import questions from your existing Google Forms and Forms shared with you into a new Form. Previously, it was only possible to do this manually which often took a long time.

  • First, open a Form and from the action toolbar on the right, select the Import Questions icon.

Screenshot of new Import Questions button within Google Forms

  • Then, select the Form with the questions you want to import.
  • From the right-hand sidebar menu, you can either: 
    • Import all questions by choosing Select All, and then click Import Questions 
    • Select specific questions to import and then click Import Questions

According to Google, this feature began showing up in U-M Google on July 9 and could take up to 15 days or longer to become fully visible.

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Interested in our latest updates about Google G Suite at U-M? Check out the Google Service Updates page.

Receive Notice of Collaboration Services Disruptions

7/19/2019

Recently, disruptions have occurred to the collaboration services on campus. Most recently, a Google Calendar outage. As these are cloud services, most disruptions are not in our control, but we have heard feedback that being notified of them would be helpful. In response to this feedback, we created a self-joinable MCommunity group, Collaboration Services Notifications. 

Anytime we become aware of a disruption to the collaboration services on campus, we will post a notice to the ITS Service Status page, sometimes even before our service providers announce them. When a notice is posted or updated about a collaboration service, an email will be sent to the new MCommunity group. If you would like to receive these email notifications, please join the new MCommunity group. 

Note: All ITS Service Status posts and updates already send notifications to the Outage Notify (including FLN) and Outage Notify - ITS Only MCommunity groups. If you are in one of those groups, you do not need to join this new one to receive notifications on the collaboration services.
 

Receive Notice of Collaboration Services Disruptions

7/19/2019

Recently, disruptions have occurred to the collaboration services on campus. Most recently, a Google Calendar outage. As these are cloud services, most disruptions are not in our control, but we have heard feedback that being notified of them would be helpful. In response to this feedback, we created a self-joinable MCommunity group, Collaboration Services Notifications. 

Anytime we become aware of a disruption to the collaboration services on campus, we will post a notice to the ITS Service Status page, sometimes even before our service providers announce them. When a notice is posted or updated about a collaboration service, an email will be sent to the new MCommunity group. If you would like to receive these email notifications, please join the new MCommunity group. 

Note: All ITS Service Status posts and updates already send notifications to the Outage Notify (including FLN) and Outage Notify - ITS Only MCommunity groups. If you are in one of those groups, you do not need to join this new one to receive notifications on the collaboration services.