Watch this short intro from Google about how Practice Sets work and how the feature can benefit teachers and students. Practice Sets are assigned through Google Classroom.  You can create practice sets for different curriculum units, classes, and groups of students.  Practice Sets allow teachers to create interactive assignments, provide additional supports to individual students,  and spend less time grading. In turn, students get immediate feedback and encouragement to keep them engaged. 

View some reasons for using Practice Sets and how they work. 

Practice Sets are part of Google Classroom and can be accessed by visiting classrooom.google.com with an eligible Google Account.  

Please note the following: 

1. You must have a Google Workspace for Education Plus account OR a Google Workspace account that has the Teaching and Learning Upgrade. 

2. Within your organization you must be a verified teacher otherwise Practice Sets will not be available to you. If you are a teacher in your district and have one of the 2 accounts listed above, reach out to your domain administrator and request access to Practice Sets. 

To create a new practice set, navigate to the Practice Sets library built into Google Classroom. All practice sets you create will be located in the Practice Sets library within Google Classroom. 

In this video you will learn how to add questions to a Practice Set. There are 4 question types available: Short answer, Paragraph, Single-select list, and Multi-select list.  All question types other than paragraph questions can be auto-graded.  Practice Sets will automatically grade all questions that are set to “Auto” as long as the correct answer choices are indicated.  

Use the built-in math keyboard when you want to add equations or symbols in either the question or answer area. Students will also be able to utilize this keyboard when completing a practice set. 

When you add a question to a practice set, Google’s adaptive learning technology suggests appropriate learning skills based on the content of the question. By attaching a learning skill to the problem, you turn "on" the ability for students to receive help and hints automatically via the lightbulb or resource tray in the form of a skill card or video. Even for questions where no skill is attached, you can now add your own hints and select video resources for students to view while completing a practice set. This allows you to provide more targetted help to your students instead of relying on Google's AI to offer appropriate help resources.  

Make your existing worksheets more engaging by importing them into practice sets. You can import a few questions or an entire PDF.  You can also import Google Forms into Practice Sets. 

As you create more practice sets, you may want to slightly change them for different classes or maybe you want to create a few different versions of a practice set for different groups of students. You can copy an entire practice set to save time.  Or perhaps you want to delete unneeded practice sets. 

Note: Practice sets in the trash will be permanently deleted after 45 days.

Practice sets can be shared with other verified teachers within your Google Workspace so that they can preview and make a copy of a practice set to use with their students. 

See how make changes to a practice set before assigning it. Some topics covered will be:

• Adding or removing a skill

• Adding, deleting, reording, and duplicating questions

• Using the ‘Try as student’ view to preview what your students will experience.

Important: You cannot edit a practice set that has already been assigned. Instead, delete the assignment and attach the new, updated practice set.

When you are ready to assign a practice set to your students, you’ll create a new assignment in Classroom and attach the practice set. 

Please note: When you attach a practice set to an assignment in Classroom, you are attaching a snapshot of that practice set. This means that once it is assigned, you cannot edit the practice set. If you want to edit a practice set that has already been assigned to students, you need to delete the assignment, edit the original practice set, create a new assignment, and attach the practice set again.

Student will access the practice set you assigned on the Classwork page. They will open the Classroom assignment as usual and click on the practice set. 

If you want to see the student experience watch this video. (This video will show you how a student goes about completing a practice set and using the built in features such as hints, extra help resources, inking, the show your work section, the math keyboard, and the answer check feature. At the end of the video, you'll learn how students submit the practice set when ready to turn it in. )

The power in using Practice Sets with students lies in the learning insights you can get from the student response data. This is done via the "Grading Experience". To access the Grading Experience, go to the Classroom assignment and open it. When you click "Review work", a new tab will open that provides an overview of the class performance and access to review and grade student responses. 

You can review responses and update question scores by student or by question.

After reviewing a student's submission, click a student’s name in the Class Performance Dashboard of the Grading Experience to give an overall grade and leave any private comments, then click "Return". Alternatively, you can enter grades and return in bulk directly from the Google Classroom assignment by clicking the number over "Turned in".