Learning Management Systems (LMS) support asynchronous interactions between teachers and students. They can even be used to make online feedback available to parents and supporting students to maintain a portfolio of learning.
By leveraging an LMS with our students you can outline required self-directed work, support students to submit evidence of learning and provide opportunities for teacher-student and student-to-student feedback.
This link from the Google Educator resources provides an 8 minute introduction to Google Classroom
"A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis."
It includes information on Google Classroom and G Suite more broadly.
The toolkit also includes a pdf which outlines information supporting teachers to set up their own workspace, Google Classroom and outlines some ways to use G Suite features to support learning
Thank you Jacinta Keenan for sharing this resource.
This slideshow explores the use of rubrics in Google Classroom, to support you in providing appropriate feedback to students.
Remember, Google Classrooms in built 'numeric marking' is not reflective of feedback best practice. The template below can be used to create a rubric using developing, consolidating and extending
This webinar was hosted by Gretchen Lane and Jacinta Keenan.
If you are sending students pdfs through your learning management system, you might like to share this quick screencast showing them how to use iPad's markup feature to draw on documents and then save them ready to share back.
n.b This will be particularly important for students who don't have access to printers.