Workspace using Google Workspace

What is Google Classroom?

Accessing Google Classroom

Adding students to a class

Viewing the Stream page

Viewing the Classwork page

Viewing the People page

Creating assignments

Providing feedback and grades

This video shows how to create topics and assignments in Google Classroom.  Topics are a great way of keeping your assignments organised, and can be linked to the strands or units of a specification or syllabus, or organised by chapter, whichever makes more sense to you and your students. 

This video provides an overview of several ways of creating an assignment and also demonstrates how assignments can be rearranged. 

Using the Grading Tool in Classroom

This video shows how teachers can rearrange assignments,  grade them and provide feedback to students.  It provides a brief overview of the comment bank and private comments. 

Creating a quiz in Classroom 

Teachers can create self-correcting quizzes directly in Classroom.  This brief video shows you how.

This time saving tip will be useful for teachers who would like to re-use assignments and topics and replicate a class from a previous year.  

This video demonstrates how to add or invite students to a class.  It also shows how parents/guardians can receive updates on their child's work. 

This video demonstrates how teachers can set assignments, share learning intentions and success criteria in order to improve the quality of student work. 

The comment bank feature in Classroom speeds up the feedback process for teachers.  This video shows how to add comments and use the comment bank when grading assignments.

Teachers can record their feedback to students using the Screencastify extension, which students can watch and then use to improve their work.  This video provides a demonstration of how this can be achieved.

If would like to do a quick poll of your class, you can ask a question within 'Classwork'. Creating a selection of general reflective questions, rather than specific questions for topics, can help you speed up the process. 

Rubrics provide students with guidance about the quality of work that is expected of them and can reduce the amount of time spent providing feedback. This video shows how rubrics can be added to assignments in Classroom.

To create your own copy of a sample rubric, click on this link. You can import the sheet into Google Classroom (see GIF above), as it is in the required format. Using Google Sheets to create rubrics gives teachers greater flexibility to collaborate in their creation with colleagues and students. Template thanks to Alice Keeler.

Joining Google Classroom

Accessing Google Classroom

The difference between Stream and Classwork

Checking upcoming assignments

Turning in an assignment in Classroom

Unsubmitting assignments to continue editing

Checking grades in Classroom

Managing email notifications in Classroom