If you ever need to send a link of a website to colleagues or learners it can sometime look messy if the link is pretty long. You can however shorten this link which can make it look a lot tidier! Not only this, but by shortening URLs you can also monitor the amount of people that have visited the page.
For example the summary of the staff use of technology survey can be found below – https://docs.google.com/a/student.loucoll.ac.uk/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dEliOGl3TUl0ajR6NW1jOXR3YVd1S0E6MA
However when we share this link we people we just give them this – http://goo.gl/7zI4U
Both links take you to the same place but the second is alot shorter than the first!
This quick video shows you how and where you can go to do it:
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