In helping some classes get going with Google Apps for Education (Read&Write and Google Docs), I noticed that students sometimes accidentally delete the written explanation and questions provided in a Google Doc. A better way to structure a Google Doc that gets sent out to all students via Google Classroom is to build in textboxes (creating a one-cell table) for students to write in. If students need to backspace and clear their answer, only what they've written in the textbox would get deleted and not the teacher-created text. As the teacher-created text is not locked, there's still the possibility of the student deleting what the teacher wrote. However, there's the option to undo or restore a previous version (click on the "All Changes Saved in Drive" or "Last Edit.." hypertext to get previous versions, to the right of the Google Docs Menu). Here's a graphic organizer to explain the above in better clarity, also found in the tech support page of the Weebly titled "Google Docs into Classroom."
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