Tip: To get help, open the Help menu and select Docs Help. Press Tab to reach the search box, then type your search, such as Images, and press Enter. The help opens in a box where you can read or navigate to other topics. read more
Google Docs also recently gained a Spell Check feature that allows you to quickly skim through the problems in a current document, a feature it lacked for a long time — just click Tools > Spell Check to use it. Search For and Insert Links. Google Docs incorporates the power of Google search to help you easily insert links into your current document. read more
You can copy and paste information from other resources into a document, and then have it read aloud to the students. You can highlight a word in the text and either do a Google Search for it on the web, or click on the picture dictionary icon for a quick picture of the word. read more
Read&Write is a Chrome Extension that does just that. Originally designed to help users who are dyslexic or learning English, I have found this tool to be also be great for multitasking and double checking your grammar. read more
You will get a pop-up box the first time you open a document after you have added this extension (it will only come up once). You need to accept the extension. Then, you will see a tab appear at the top of the document screen that says: "Read and Write". Just click on the tab and it will drop down icons to use. read more