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Virtual Principal’s Office Templates

Need to design a virtual principal’s office quickly? Whether you’re an administrator at an online school or you’re out of the building due to inclement weather, natural disaster, or pandemic, school must go on. Don’t spend all day designing your own when you can be up and ready in an instant. Simply arrange your space, save your slide, insert it into a new Google Slides document, and make your clickable links. That’s it!

All of the graphics inside each of the five background slides are fully moveable and customizable. Make different interactive office spaces for each day of the week or different times of the year. Link to announcements using images and text. Design your room with your personality in mind. Have a school mascot or Bitmoji®? Snap a picture and bring it into the layout or drag it in. Make your mascot talk to your students and staff! Snap pictures of things in your office and bring them into the layout to personalize the space.

I designed this resource with principals and other administrators in mind. I’ve included graphics of a clipboard, books and binders on a bookcase, a filing cabinet, and a bean bag chair for students. A large desk provides workspace and includes a morning cup of coffee, a pile of unkempt papers, and a desk lamp. The phrase, “Principal’s Office” adorns the front of the desk, but is also easily removable. To help add content to the space, I’ve added two picture frames and a laptop where you can overlap your own graphics. Post notes to students and staff on the sticky notes, too!

This template would also work for guidance counselors, curriculum coordinators, and vice-principals.

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Why Design a Digital Principal’s Office?

There are many challenges with distance learning, one of which is the lack of warmth and connection students and staff feel during remote learning. Whether your school is partially in-person, completely virtual, or somewhere in between, not being with everyone in the same space can feel rather impersonal. As principal, it’s difficult to communicate school policies, procedures, curriculum, and announcements and simultaneously nurture the community spirit you’ve worked hard for. That’s where these virtual principal’s office templates come into play.

Creating your own virtual office is one way to coordinate all of the elements of your job in one centralized location. And, it’s a great way to engage with families during critical times of the year like back to school, at the end of a marking period, and during special school-wide events.

Use these hand-drawn (by me!) virtual principal’s office templates to design your own room. Link to announcements and show off your personality. Move objects around within the space to customize it. Add photos of your school mascot, posters with inspiring quotes, pictures of your family, a screenshot of your school YouTube channel, or anything else that would make it feel more your own. And lastly, if you have a personalized avatar character, add that in, too.

Why Use Google Slides for A Virtual Principal’s Office?

• FAMILIARITY: A lot of the features of Google Slides are similar to PowerPoint and will get your room up super quick. No need to edit a PowerPoint and figure out how to upload it to Slides.
• USER-FRIENDLY: You are likely already familiar with storing files in Google Drive.
• INSANT SAVE AS: All changes in Google Slides are instantly saved in Google Drive. Ever accidentally close down an app or other online software and changes weren’t saved? Eliminate the frustration and disappointment of lost presentations!
• ACCESSIBILITY: Parents, staff, and students can use an iPad, desktop or laptop computer, and even a Chrome book to access your virtual principal’s office to view your daily and weekly announcements.
• SHAREABILITY: Simply share your digital room with students and staff via Google Drive, Google Classroom, or any other LMS you’re currently using.

Administrator Directions

The download contains a four-page PDF with directions on how to access the virtual principal’s office templates. I’ve included step-by-step picture directions for some basics including inserting and resizing images as well as how to flip an image.

But I’ve gone a step further in outlining the order of operations in curating your space. How to import images, add video screenshots, add text boxes and images, and how to link to external content.

And this document comes ready to go in Google Drive, so don’t worry about trying to figure out how to import it into your Drive!

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