Google Classroom
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Uses for Google Drive Products
Docs - use for notes, labs, worksheets
Presentations - use for notes or presentations (teacher or student created)
Sheets - math type worksheets, notebooks, notes, labs
Forms - quizzes, test, exit ticket
Drawings - add drawings to other things.
New announcements
- Whitelisted domains: The ability to whitelist domains will be rolling out over the next few weeks. We shared this with you in March; we’re excited that now you’ll be able to whitelist other Google Apps for Education domains so students, teachers or staff in different domains can effectively work together in Drive and Classroom.
- Re-use previous posts: If you used Classroom this year and want to reuse your assignments or materials in future classes, we’ve got you covered. In August, we’re planning to roll out the ability for you to reuse assignments and posts from old classes. Stay tuned for more details.
Helping your students use Classroom
Getting In
Go to classroom.google.com
Log in - pick one of your students, or both (one on each device.)
Click the plus sign and enter the code
You are now in Classroom!
Completing Assignments
- Click on the assignment.
- If there is a document click on it - it will be saved into your Google Drive.
- Complete the assignment
- Go back to the assignment in Classroom and click on Turn in
- If you have a form that students are completing or a link they are clicking on they need to make sure and come back to Classroom and "turn it in" or mark done. The system will not automatically do this for them.
Tips and Tricks
To see files, click on the assignment title
If you “mess up” and delete a file forever you can go back into classroom and make another copy.
- After turn in, the teacher is the owner of the document. You can’t share or change permission.
- If you have multiple classes, click on the lines next to home and click on the class you want to go to.
- When students get his or her own copy of the file, it goes into that folder in their Classroom folder. Classroom creates folders for them and names that file with their sign in name.
- Many sites now have the share through Google Classroom option. (Zaption and Discovery Education are good examples.)
How to Navigate Through Classroom
Creating and Editing Classes
- The website is classroom.google.com.
- From your first screen, click on the plus sign in the top right hand corner and choose create a class.
- Name the class and give it a section (if you want) and click create.
- All you can really do is change or choose a picture for the class theme.
- Click on select or upload theme in the right hand corner.
- Choose a theme and save.
Changing Classes
- Click on the three lines on the left side of the screen and choose a new class.
- You can also choose home to see all of your classes.
Collaborating with other teachers
- Click on about and under your name on the left, click on invite teacher.
- Once they accept the invitation they can add announcements and assignments.
Adding and Inviting Students
- Go into the class
- Give students the class code on the left side.
- In the class, click on students
- Enter their emails
Adding Announcements and Assignments
Announcements
- In the class, click on announcement.
- Enter the information
- You can add files or links
- Use the Google Drive logo to add files directly from drive.
- In the class, click assignment
- Enter the title and instructions
- Attach files from Drive
In both of these you can choose what classes you want to post the assignment to. If you have multiple class periods of the same class (like 1st, 3rd, and 5th Algebra 1) then you can assign all of the same assignments. The difference is in how it is managed. Each class has a folder in your Classroom file in your Google Drive.
Grading Assignments
Worksheet/lab/paper grading - grade it like you normally would but online. Change the color of the font (like purple if it is wrong or pink for a comment), make comments like you would in word.
Forms - Auto grade with an Add-On called Flubaroo
Flubaroo will also email the grade to your students. Take the quiz twice as the teacher (you must have two to run Flubaroo) and set it up with all of the information. As soon as students submit their answers, it will grade it and email them.
Save to Doc - If you have a paragraph answer in Forms, use the Save to Doc Add-On to move them to a Google Doc for ease of Grading. Click Add -Ons, find Save to Doc, and follow how to do it.
When you finish grading an assignment, click on the assignment, enter the points possible (or ungraded), click on the pencil and enter their grade.
Returning Assignments
- Click on the assignment
- Check the "papers" to return
- Click return
- Once you return the file to the students you do not have access to edit the file.
- When they turn the file in, you become the owner.
- When you return the file, the student becomes the owner again.
Assignment Ideas
- Lab or activity
Give students a basic outline for them to edit or let them start from scratch
- Research paper
- Test
- Some activity where they have to take pictures and insert them.
- You could do this for notebooking. Students could take pictures of what they are doing as they go and insert them like they would draw them in their notebook.
- Note taking
Give basic Slide presentation and they find or fill in the extra information.
Give a basic document and students use it for class discusses/lecture
Use a Google Sheet as a notebook. The original template can be on Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers (It's also linked below.)
- "Worksheet"
Upload ones you already have to Google Drive and it can make the document into a Google Document
- Form/Quiz/Exit ticket
- Real world relations of math (or other subjects)
- Student packet for a whole unit (This was an example from when I was in the classroom last year.)
- Ven Diagram with Google Drawings.
- Writing assignment
Sites to use with Google Classroom
- DocentEDU - make a document interactive. Insert several types of files, questions, and notes.
- Goformative - create an interactive "worksheet"
- Thinglink - create an interactive picture
- Stupeflix - create a video using pictures.
- Replay - only on iPads/iPhones - same as above but on iPad
- Zaption - embed discussion questions into the video.
Templates and EVERYTHING Google
Holly Curry
Email: hcurry@esc7.net
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Phone: 903-988-6953
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