Getting Started with google classroom


Important Reminder: Sign in to Chrome with City Schools Google

  1. Open Chrome

  2. Click Chrome profile user icon

  3. Sign into Chrome browser with City Schools Google credentials

    • Staff: @bcps.k12.md.us

    • Students: @bcpss.org

    • Not personal Gmail

  4. Sync

  5. Watch your extensions and bookmarks install!

Resources:

Accessing Google Part 2.webm

Accessing Google

  1. Profile Overview

  2. Managing Profiles

  3. Finding your apps

  4. Organizing your apps


Create a New Class.webm

Create a New Classroom

  1. Finding the Classroom app

  2. Creating a Class


Classroom Settings.webm

Classroom Settings

  1. Class Details

  2. General Settings

  3. Gradebook


Adding People v5.mov

adding people

  1. Recommended Method: Teachers directly inviting students to class using student City Schools email address

    • Individual add

    • Spreadsheet bulk add

    • Student view

  2. Using a class code to invite learners

  3. Adding co-teacher


Resources:

Classwork overview 3:13.mp4

classwork (overview)

  1. Topic management

  2. Assignment management

  3. Materials in topic


Stream video.mp4

stream

  1. Creating announcements

  2. Scheduling stream

  3. Reorganizing stream


Global Settings and Notifications 3.mp4

Global Settings

  1. Classroom Settings

  2. Email notifications


create assignments in classwork v5.mov

Classwork Create options

  1. Classwork tab

  2. Create options

    • Assignment

    • Kami assignment (paid feature) -

      • Kami Chrome extension works in Classroom with PDFs

    • Quiz assignment

    • Question

    • Material

    • Reuse post

    • Topic


Create Assignment Overview1.mov

create assignment (overview)

  1. Attaching files from Google Drive set as...

    1. ‘Make a copy for each student’

    2. ‘Students can view’

    3. ‘Students can edit’

  2. Adding video

  3. Adding URL

  4. Adding files from computer

  5. Adding Rubric

  6. Posting



Create Question as Discussion.mp4

Create question as discussion

  1. 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

  2. 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


Assigning a Google Doc.webm

Assigning Google Docs

  1. Creating a document

  2. Assigning document to students

  3. Assigning work by individuals and groups

  4. Sharepoint Curriculum Documents

Adding Resources to an Assignment

Add Resources to Assignments

  1. Google Drive resources

  2. Adding Links

  3. Adding PDFs and files


Create Question as Assignment.mov

create question as assignment

  1. Creating a Question

    • Typing your question

    • Adding resource files

    • Setting point value

    • Choosing students reply & edit options.

    • Clicking Ask to post

  2. Grading student responses

    • After teacher grades and returns answer, the student may no longer submit another response

    • Commenting remains open


Topics in Classwork.mov

topics in classwork

  1. Adding Topic using Create button or within Assignment/Question

  2. Best practices - logical or linear?

  3. Topic management

    • Create

    • Order

    • Order assignments within topic

    • ‘No topic’ goes to top of Classwork


Student Work View Options.mov

student work view options

  1. Student work view

    • Student - Classwork ‘View your work’

    • Student - Stream ‘View all’

    • Teacher - People tab, click student

  2. Calendar

    • All classes

    • Single class view