This assignment must be completed in Google Docs not Microsoft
This assignment must be completed in Google Docs not Microsoft Word CS165 W2 Google Docs Assignment Overview: You are the director of Parks and Recreation for a small town in Indiana. One of your regular duties is to enroll children into the summer teeball league and assign them to teams. Each May, you prepare a newsletter with the team rosters, mascots, and coach’s name and phone number. This year you will have 63 kids to enroll into 6 teams. To accomplish this, you will need to: 1) Open a new Doc and rename it LastNameFirstName_GoogleAssignment2 2) Create a 4x7 table. 3) Label the top row of cells with: “Team Name”, “Team Members”, “Mascot” and “Coach” 4) Use background fill to turn the top row of the table a different color, center and bold the text within the cells. (If your background fill color makes the text hard to read, you will need to change your font color to provide contrast) 5) Download and use this document to copy and paste information into your table: CS165 W2 Assignment Data File. You will need to divide up the children between the six teams, but you may use any combination of teams, children, and coaches that you like. 6) Use the “Insert Image” tool to search for a mascot image for each team. You may either use Insert-->Image-->Search or perform a Google search outside of Docs, copy the URL and use Insert-->Image-->URL to paste in the link. 7) Make sure all content is the same font, same font size, and left-justified. 8) Copy and paste the text your summer intern wrote at the top of your document. 9) At the top of the document, create a title that is appropriate for its purpose. 10) Center, bold, and underline the title. Set the font size to 24 pt. 11) Create three line spaces after the title and paste in the greeting blurb from your summer intern. (You will notice your intern’s writing has several errors. You will suggest changes for her to make.) 12) Turn on Suggesting Mode. 13) Pick 3 errors your intern made and correct them so Suggesting Mode generates the sidebar suggestions. Do not resolve the suggestions.
Paper For Above instruction
Title: Summer T-Ball League Team Roster and Newsletter
As the director of Parks and Recreation for a small Indiana town, organizing the summer t-ball league is a vital part of my responsibilities during the season. This task involves creating and publishing a comprehensive newsletter that details team rosters, mascots, and coaches’ contact information, ensuring that all participants, players, and their families are well-informed about the upcoming season.
In line with the assignment, I began by opening a new Google Document and renamed it to personalize my
submission as LastNameFirstName_GoogleAssignment2. Recognizing the importance of an organized layout, I created a 4x7 table to accommodate six teams and their related data. The top row was then labeled with the headers “Team Name”, “Team Members”, “Mascot”, and “Coach”. To improve readability and visual appeal, I applied contrasting background fills to this header row, centered and bolded the text, ensuring clarity and emphasis. If the background color hindered text visibility, I adjusted the font color for better contrast.
Subsequently, I downloaded and used the provided data file, carefully dividing the 63 children among the six teams. I assigned each team a unique name and selected appropriate coaches, ensuring a balanced distribution. To enhance visual engagement, I utilized the “Insert Image” feature in Google Docs to search for mascot images for each team, either directly searching within Docs or by copying URLs from external sources, then pasting them into the document. This added an appealing graphic element to the newsletter, making the presentation more lively and team-specific.
All content within the document was kept consistent: the same font style, size, and left-justification to maintain a professional appearance. At the top of the document, I inserted a relevant, eye-catching title, formatted to be centered, bold, underlined, and set at 24 pt font size. Following the title, I created three blank lines to segregate the title from the introductory message, after which I pasted the greeting blurb provided by my summer intern.
In the next step, I activated Suggesting Mode in Google Docs. Carefully reviewing my intern’s writing, I identified three specific errors—such as misspelled words, grammatical issues, or punctuation mistakes—and made corrections through suggesting mode. This approach allows the sidebar to display correction proposals without finalizing the edits, aligning with best practices for collaborative editing and review.
Overall, this process resulted in a professional, organized, and visually engaging newsletter that accurately reports the team rosters, mascots, and coach information for the upcoming summer t-ball league, while adhering to the specific formatting and editing requirements laid out in the assignment.
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