Airtable is the ultimate spreadsheet that will help streamline all of your processes this school year! Here is a quick airtable overview of some of its features.
Airtable Overview
I. Terminology
- Record (row)
- Field (column)
- Field Types (most commonly used for teachers)
- Single Line
- Long text
- Attachment
- Checkbox
- Multiple Select
- Single Select
- Collaborator
- Date
- Phone Number
- URL
- Number
- Field Types (most commonly used for teachers)
II. Views
- Grid View
- Like a regular spreadsheet, but can do more!
- Can group records by anything
- Sorting is available
- Can hide and filter fields
- Form
- Similar to a google form, except you create the spreadsheet first then the form
- Can click and drag fields to the form, not all fields need to be on the form
- Calendar
- Good for scheduling and planning
- Need to have a date field to have a calendar
- Can filter by whatever field you want
- Click and drag records to the date
- Gallery
- If you have images this is useful
- Kanban
- Good for changing up the grouping of different records
- Great for a to-do list (to do, in progress, done
III. Basic Commands
- Create a new field
- Right-click, insert right/left
- Choose field type
- Group Records
- Click “group by” and select the field you want to group by
- You can have groups within groups
- Rename field or change field type
- Double click the title of the field
There you have it! I hope you found this short Airtable overview useful! If you don’t want to DIY your Airtable bases, click this link to see what I have done for you already!
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