What is Google Classroom?
Google Classroom is a blended learning platform for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way. Google Classroom is packed with many features that makes the process of teaching, planning, and creating materials more simple and efficient. Classroom even makes communicating with parents and families easy with included communication tools.
How Will Google Classroom Benefit Your Teaching?
Read "12 great ways to start using google classroom now!" by Matt Miller to see how Google Classroom can benefit your teaching.
How Can You Use Google Classroom?
- Classroom keeps everything in one place. Join the class in one click. Easily send out classroom materials electronically to every student without having to run copies or even go to the workroom. Classroom syncs up with Google Drive so you can add anything you have already saved there - and Drive saves any work your students submit. No more searching for lost assignments.
- Communicate. Send out announcements to your whole class or private messages to a single student about their classwork. You can even connect parents to Google Classroom to keep them in the loop on student progress. Students also have a direct link to your email, so they can stay in contact with you while they work working in a small group at school or they are finishing independent assignments at home.
- Anything can be an assignment - have a student make a Slides presentation or a YouTube video and turn it in. Google Classroom makes it easy for student to attach a variety of media, either something you assigned or something they personalized to their learning.