Google Classroom

Pupils are encouraged to use Google Classroom as a resource to assist them both in the classroom and at home. Teachers can use Google Classroom to send announcements to entire classes, share resources, course notes, Google Slide/PowerPoints, diagrams, and home study tasks. Pupils can use it to access work covered in class anywhere they have internet access from a PC or mobile device. You can think of Google Classroom as a virtual classroom that allows remote working and allows pupils to manage deadlines and access resources at any time or place.

STUDENTS

Students can use Google Classroom using a web browser on a PC/Mac/Chromebook by visiting https://classroom.google.com

Alternatively they can download the app for their mobile device.

Students should make sure that they have given permission for the use of Google Guardian Summaries.  This automates the process of sharing information about information posted by the teacher in Google Classroom.  To give permission, you can either complete the assignment in your year group classroom (e.g. PL22 Whole Year Classroom for students who joined Preston Lodge in 2022), or using the appropriate link below (you will need to log in using your Edubuzz account).

S1 / PL24 students (joined Preston Lodge in 2024)

S2 / PL23 students (joined Preston Lodge in 2023)

S3 / PL22 students (joined Preston Lodge in 2022)

S4 / PL21 students (joined Preston Lodge in 2021)

S5 / PL20 students (joined Preston Lodge in 2020)

S6 / PL19 students (joined Preston Lodge in 2019)

If you have already given (or refused) permission, the form will tell you that you have already submitted your response.  If you need to change this, please let Mr Evans (Science) know.

GUARDIANS

Parents and guardians do not use Google Classroom directly, so should not install the app.   Instead guardians are invited to receive Google Guardian Summaries which are an email digest of the work posted in the student's classrooms.

To receive this invitation, students first have to give permission for their data to be shared electronically.  This permission is gathered via an assignment in their year group Google Classroom e.g. PL22 Whole Year Classroom).  Once permission has been given, we will send an invitation to guardians that we have contact email addresses for.  You can receive these using any email address, although you will need to have or create a Google account if you want to edit the settings of these emails (e.g. if you want to receive them daily rather than weekly).

You can find out more by visiting Google's FAQ page

You can also view the information that is sent to guardians early in S1: