Customize your Classroom

Profile Photo

• • Set your Profile Photo for your UMass Global Google account.

Locate your photo on your computer.

• • Click on "set a profile photo."

  • You can add other Google accounts and move between accounts.

  • Add a different photo for each of your Google accounts so you know immediately which account you are working in.

Select a Theme for your Google Classroom from the Google Gallery OR Customize your banner for your Curriculum Topic

Customize Your Banner

Google Classroom does have a gallery of colorful image options and choices for themes. However, this is your opportunity to be creative.

• • Locate a visual that matches your curriculum theme, grabs attention, and provides a visual frame of reference.

  • Upload a photo from your computer or save a curriculum based image you locate on the internet. Save to your computer.

Search for Images that Connect to your Curriculum Content and Theme

• • Do an image search in Google for graphic images related to your topic.

  • To use an image as a banner (top frame) in your classroom, you need find images that are larger than 800 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.

  • Smaller images can be attached but will not fill up the top frame adequately.

  • Right click (or hold mouse button down) to save images to your graphics or pictures folder.

  • From the Google image search you can typically see the file size ahead of time. Look for a large enough file by checking the file size/resolution.

  • If your image is too small, click on "Dismiss" and try for a larger image.

Start again and click on "Upload photo" to locate the image on your computer.

• • "Select a photo from your computer."

  • Locate the image in your graphics or picture folder.

  • Upload from your computer.

• • You can size the image slightly.

  • Select the part of the image that will be more effective as a banner.

Click on "Select class theme.

Examples: