For teachers and school staff who work in Google Workspace: select a cell, a row or a passage, record a short voice note, and it stays attached there with a written transcript, so students and colleagues can listen or read in place.
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A middle school teacher tracks 28 lab reports in a Google Sheet, one row per student. Instead of typing a paragraph in each comment, she records a 40-second note on each row while reading the report. Students open the shared sheet, play their note and read the transcript; two parents at a conference listen to the same notes on the teacher's laptop.
Choose your planTeachers give a lot of written feedback: comments in documents, notes in grade sheets, remarks on projects and lab reports. Typing the same kind of comment for thirty students takes time, and short written remarks often lose the tone and the detail that a teacher would give when speaking.
Spoken feedback is quicker to give and often easier for students to take in. Many teachers already record short audio for their classes, but the recordings end up as separate files in a drive or a messaging app, away from the work they are about.
The service adds voice notes to Google Sheets and Google Docs. In a sheet you select a cell or a row; in a document you select a passage. You record a short note, and it is attached to that place in the file.
Each note gets a written transcript next to the audio. Students can listen, read, or both, and the transcript makes notes easy to search later. Notes can also be translated for families who read another language.
Students open the shared sheet or document as usual. A small card marks each note, and one click plays it in place, so feedback stays tied to the cell, the row or the sentence it is about.
All your notes are kept in one list. Comments you give often — on structure, on sources, on a lab method — can be reused on another row or another document instead of being recorded again.
Schools can give each teacher a seat and see in one place how many seats are in use. Notes stay in the teacher's account and are attached only to the files the teacher chooses.
The service is meant for K-12 teachers, instructional coaches and school staff in the US who work in Google Workspace. It runs inside the editors; nothing needs to be installed on student devices.
Voice notes work beyond grading too. A teacher can explain an assignment once and attach the note to the instructions, leave a short message on a shared planning sheet for a co-teacher, or record reading prompts for younger students who are still learning to read. Coaches can leave notes for teachers on a lesson plan in the same way.
Recording takes only a microphone in the browser, on a laptop or a Chromebook. A note can be played back and recorded again before it is attached, and a teacher can delete or replace a note at any time.
The service is in preparation: we are checking whether teachers need it before it is built.
Voice recordings of teachers and students are personal data. Which notes are recorded, who they are shared with and how long they are kept stay under the school's own privacy policies.
US teachers and school staff who give feedback in Google Sheets and Google Docs.
They are attached to a cell, a row or a passage in the file and play in place.
Yes. Each note has a written transcript next to the audio.
Yes. A school plan gives each teacher a seat.
Not yet. The service is in preparation, and we are checking whether teachers need it.