If This Then That is a helpful website for automating many routine online tasks.
If This Then That helps you automate tasks like saving your Pinterest pins to your Evernote account, setting text alerts for calendar events, and sending email attachments directly to your Dropbox account. There are thousands of formulas, "recipes" is what IFTTT calls them, available in the gallery of recipes. The recipes are all contributed by the community of IFTTT members and you can contribute too. You can browse channels of recipes that are based on the use of popular services like Gmail, Dropbox, Evernote, Instagram, and Google Drive.
Click here to see the hundreds of recipes that incorporate Google Drive functions.
Applications for Education
I don't know of any teachers who couldn't use a little more time in their days.
If This Then That won't give you more time in the day, but the recipes could help you automate some tasks and free up time for other things in your day.
