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If you already use Google Classroom this session aims to help you use it more effectively to manage the paperless workflow between you and your students. Dive into examples of how Classroom’s core tools of Announcements, Questions and Assignments can be used. We will look at ways you can digitise existing tasks, and provide effective feedback to students. Please be prepared to share examples of your own Classroom use with the group.
So you're already using Google Classroom?
So you're already using Google Classroom?
If you've been using Classroom for a while, you probably already have some great ideas and suggestions for how you're using it. Share some stories of how you're using it with the group by adding them to this Doc.
How can we use Classroom to impact learning?
How can we use Classroom to impact learning?
Creating Digital Tasks
Creating Digital Tasks
What kinds of tasks and projects do you currently ask your students to do? How could you move some of those into a digital format?
What worksheets or activities do you give your students right now? And could they be redesigned to be more digital? What would lend itself into being a "digital manipulative"?
What online resources, sites, activities, games, etc, could you use to have students complete through classroom?
How could you use Google Forms to create self marking quizzes?
Don't be limited to just the tools inside G Suite... Many tools integrate directly into the Classroom API, and you can integrate ANY web based tool into a Classroom activity by using the link option.
Here's a couple of blogposts about apps that integrate nicely with Classroom
Here's a few examples of applications that integrate with Classroom...
Here's a few examples of applications that integrate with Classroom...
Explore them and see what ones you might like to try with your students.
Google Classroom Skills
Google Classroom Skills
Some of these videos have been obsoleted by the most recent updates to Classroom in August 2018. Read the official blogpost from Google about these changes, and find out what's coming for Classroom.
Set up your Classroom
Set up your Classroom
- Choose a Theme
- Decide on the level of student interaction
- Add any Co-Teachers
- Add resources to your About page
- Set up Guardians (if enabled)
- Controlling email notifications in Settings
- Transfer ownership to another co-teacher (new!)
Video duration - 6:43
Adding content to the Stream
Adding content to the Stream
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Questions
- Reuse post
Video duration - 1:31
Adding media to a Post
Adding media to a Post
- Attachment - add any type of file, upload from your computer
- Drive - add any file from Drive
- Add a YouTube video
- Add a link to any URL
Video duration - 1:22
Creating an Announcement
Creating an Announcement
- Post to multiple classes (if needed)
- Post to individual students (if needed)
- Add the information you want to share
- Add a topic
- Include any relevant media
- Decide whether to post, schedule, or save draft
Video duration - 3:24
Creating a Question
Creating a Question
- Post to multiple classes (if needed)
- Post to individual students (if needed)
- Add your question and description
- Choose a due date (if needed)
- Add a topic
- Choose Short Answer or Multiple Choice
- Decide whether students will be able to reply to each other
- Decise whether students can edit their answer
- Include any relevant media
- Decide whether to ask, schedule, or make it a draft
Video duration - 3:53
Creating an Assignment
Creating an Assignment
- Post to multiple classes (if needed)
- Post to individual students (if needed)
- Add your title and instructions
- Choose a due date (if needed)
- Add a topic
- Include any relevant media. If a Google Doc, decide how the students should be able to interact with this media.
- Students can only view file
- Students can edit File
- Make a copy for each student
- Students can also add their own media and files to an empty assignment
- Decide whether to post, schedule, or save draft
Video duration - 3:05
Grading Assignment Workflow
Grading Assignment Workflow
- Create and distribute an assignment
- Student completes assignment and turns it in
- Teacher gives feedback on assignment using Comments, Suggestion Mode, etc
- Student makes improvements to assignment
- Repeat until final submission, or due date
- Teacher opens assignment and makes final grading
- Teacher returns assignment to student, gives a mark and leaves a comment
- Grading can include decimal places (new!)
- All evidence of comment history is kept on the student assignment page
- Classroom manages the ability of students to edit the assignment based on whether it is turned in or not
Video duration - 8:51
Reusing Posts
Reusing Posts
- Items created in one Classroom can be reused in another Classroom
- Consider whether you want new copies of all attached files
- Hint: Create a Lesson Library to build a collection of tasks, and then just draw on that collection as needed
- For teaching teams, create a Lesson Library and add all members as Co-Teachers
Video duration - 2:40
Adding a self marking quiz
Adding a self marking quiz
- Convert a Form to a Quiz
- Assign a point value and correct answer to each question
- After adding a Form to an Assignment turn on Enable Grade Im porting
- After students complete the quiz, use the Import Grades button to import all completed quizzes into Classrooms's marking system
Video duration - 5:10
Student View
Student View
- Click on a student name in the Student list to see only the work for that student (new!)
- Filter by Handed in, Returned with Grade or Missing (new!)
Video duration - 1:02
Exporting Grades
Exporting Grades
- Once an assignment is graded, export the marks out as a Google Sheet or CSV file
- Grades can be exported per assignment or as an overall markbook
- Check which tasks still need grading from the ToDo option in the main menu
Video duration - 2:18
Classroom Calendars
Classroom Calendars
- A calendar will be created for every active Classroom
- Calendars can be accessed from the About Page, from the Menu button, or from Google Calendar itself
- All items with a due date will be automatically added to the calendar
- Item due dates also show up on each student’s calendar, with a reminder
Video duration - 3:22
Managing Classrooms
Managing Classrooms
- Drag Classrooms to order them on the Courses page (new!)
- Archive each Classroom that is no longer active
- Archived Classrooms can be restored if necessary
- When archived, Classrooms cannot be edited, but they can be viewed
Video duration - 2:42
Classroom Chrome Extension
Classroom Chrome Extension
- Push any webpage to all student computers
- Turn any webpage into an Announcement, Question or Assignment
- All students must have the extension installed
- Click here to get the Extension
Video duration - 3:17
Classroom on Mobile
Classroom on Mobile
- Classroom app is available on mobile for iOS and Android
- Interact with Classroom content on the go
- Notifications!
- Take photos directly with the mobile device and submit as assignment items
- Grade assignments using digital ink on an iPad or Android tablet
Video duration - 2:59
Google Cast for Education
Google Cast for Education
- Turns the teacher computer into a Chromecast receiver
- Lets any student in an approved Classroom cast their screen to the teacher computer (and therefore usually the projector)
- Can be a bit fussy!
- Click here to get the Extension
What's new in Google Classroom?
Coming features
- Ability to create named groups of students for groupwork tasks
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