But, if you want links to each of those Headings in the doc, this will be great for you, because it’s really simple to set up. Second, the Table of Contents can become really long. First,it doesn’t work with Titles or Subtitles. There are two main downsides of the Table of Contents. If you want there to be links to each chapter of your ebook (or dates of your lesson plan or agendas from your meeting…) up at the top of your document, the Table of Contents is a great solution for you. *Boom!* Check out the process for adding bookmarks and using them for links in the animation below. Add links to the spots in that document where those events happened and you can see evidence of your students’ reading comprehension. Think about it: How do I know that the character is feeling remorseful? I can see evidence here when he says “sorry” and here when he is feeling depressed about what he did. The biggest use of this that I can see, though, is to have students link to the locations of their evidence. We use bookmarks to make it easy to jump by month. In my school, we have a shared document for the plans for our “PRIDE” period, that all teachers teach. What if you don’t want to format some of your text as a “title” or “heading”? Well, bookmarks are the answer for you. Copy the URL for the heading or title from that meeting and email it to them – then, when they click on that, not only will the doc open, but they’ll jump to the right spot. Let’s say a colleague asks you about a specific topic that was discussed in a faculty meeting a few weeks back. Note: These URLs are nice outside of that doc as well. So, copy that URL and create a link with it elsewhere in the doc to jump to that spot. This is because the URL is specific to that location in the doc. Regardless, if you add a title or subtitle (just like a heading) you’ll notice that when you click on them, the URL changes. This is because they don’t naturally appear in that Insert Link box. You may have noticed that in #1, I didn’t mention Titles or Subtitles along with the 3 different levels of Headings. Copying the url for headings, titles & Subtitles Check out the steps in the animated GIF below.Ģ. When you use the “Styles” dropdown to format parts of your doc as Heading 1, Heading 2 or Heading 3 those Headings become links that even show up in the Insert Link menu. Using “Headings” to create linkable pieces of text There are a few different ways to manage this and different ones are best in different situations.

A slightly different reason – sending a link in an email (or messaging system) that takes the recipient directly to a certain location within the doc.

You’re collaborating with a team of educators in a doc with multiple meetings worth of notes.Your students are creating Choose Your Own Adventure books.You’re managing a long doc of lesson plans and want to be able to jump to different units or months.Your students are creating eBooks and need a Table of Contents.You’re creating a HyperDoc with lots of stuff in it!.

There are a lot of reasons that you may want to put links into a doc that allow you (or the reader) to jump to certain parts of a Google Doc.

Using bookmarks in gogle docs