Classroom Tutorials
Google Classroom is a teacher-student interface app. Teachers can post resources, discussion questions, announcements, and assignments. Students can turn in their work electronically. The Classroom app for mobile devices even provides students with mobile alerts!
Below, you will find information on the following topics:
- The Google Classroom Experience
- Set-up Instructions
- Create a New Classroom Video
- Student's Guide to Classroom
- New Classroom Features
- Guardian Email Summaries
- Edit or Archive a Class/Post
- Additional Features
- Classroom Calendars
- Comments & Integrated Apps
- Step-by-Step Visual Guide
This presentation will walk you through the Google Classroom experience. You can play, pause, move back, or skip forward at any time by using the tools in the bottom left corner. You may also jump directly to a page through the same toolbar. To create your own copy of this presentation in your Google Drive, click HERE.
Google Classroom Set-up Instructions
Click HERE to open in Drive.
Create a New Classroom
For tips on naming conventions in Classroom, read Alice Keeler's article, "Google Classroom: Assignment Naming Conventions."
Student Guide to Classroom
New Features in Classroom
New for Fall 2017: Click on the image below for more features and details!
Invite Guardians to View Classroom
Make a Copy of a Document for Each Student to Complete
Please note that when making a copy for each student you will always want to use Google document types. If you send a copy of a Microsoft document or PDF, the student cannot edit directly on their copy of the document without converting it first, which creates a completely new doc that is no longer attached to the assignment. If you have a Word or other document type you want to use, just convert it to a Google document version first, then send that out to students. This feature works with Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, & Drawings!
Edit or Archive a Class
Go to the Classes/Home page, click the three stacked dots at the corner of the class tile, and select "Archive" or "Rename."
Note that if you rename a class, you will need to manually rename the corresponding folder in Drive, as well. If you have multiple classes with similar names, we recommend doing this by clicking on the folder icon on the Classroom tile (like the one shown in the bottom right corner of the image above), then right-clicking on the name of the folder at the top of the content pane and selecting "Rename." This ensures that you are changing the name of the correct folder.
For more tips like this, visit the "Google Classroom Quiz" terms in Quizlet, which is accessible through the module Classroom.
Edit or Delete a Post
Additional Features
The presentation below shows additional detail for teacher and student features in Google Classroom. For more information, visit presentation author Kelly Fitzgerald's EdTech Nut website.
This video explains how to use the Classroom-integrated Google Calendars!
For details on using discussion features in Classroom, check out Kasey Bell's Shake Up Learning blog by clicking on the first image below. The image on the right will take you to an article about other apps which integrate with Google Classroom to expand its capabilities!
Refer to this step-by-step guide for more pointers. Click on the image below.
