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Resources:
Profile Overview
Managing Profiles
Finding your apps
Organizing your apps
Finding the Classroom app
Creating a Class
Class Details
General Settings
Gradebook
Recommended Method: Teachers directly inviting students to class using student City Schools email address
Individual add
Spreadsheet bulk add
Student view
Using a class code to invite learners
Adding co-teacher
Resources:
Topic management
Assignment management
Materials in topic
Creating announcements
Scheduling stream
Reorganizing stream
Classroom Settings
Email notifications
Classwork tab
Create options
Assignment
Kami assignment (paid feature) -
Quiz assignment
Question
Material
Reuse post
Topic
Attaching files from Google Drive set as...
‘Make a copy for each student’
‘Students can view’
‘Students can edit’
Adding video
Adding URL
Adding files from computer
Adding Rubric
Posting
Creating a Question
Typing your question
Changing points to Ungraded
Choosing if students can reply to each other and if students can edit answer
Clicking Ask to post
Managing student responses
Student answers may only be submitted once
Class comments remain open
Private comments send to teacher’s Outlook mail & can be viewed in Classroom by teacher
Creating a document
Assigning document to students
Assigning work by individuals and groups
Sharepoint Curriculum Documents
Google Drive resources
Adding Links
Adding PDFs and files
Creating a Question
Typing your question
Adding resource files
Setting point value
Choosing students reply & edit options.
Clicking Ask to post
Grading student responses
After teacher grades and returns answer, the student may no longer submit another response
Commenting remains open
Adding Topic using Create button or within Assignment/Question
Best practices - logical or linear?
Topic management
Create
Order
Order assignments within topic
‘No topic’ goes to top of Classwork
Student work view
Student - Classwork ‘View your work’
Student - Stream ‘View all’
Teacher - People tab, click student
Calendar
All classes
Single class view