Setting Up Your Google Classroom

Google Classroom Teacher Skills/Knowledge

• Add students to your Classroom

  • Find and share the class code with students

  • Invite guardians to view their student's Classroom account (Other Guardian FAQs)

• Community Building

  • Discussion post (post to Class Stream with student comments enabled)

  • Post a question to the Class Stream

    • Get to know you

    • Opinions

  • Differentiation Features

    • Small Group Assignments (select students before saving an assignment)

    • Collaboration opportunities in Docs, Slides, etc.

• Communication

  • Post an announcement to the Class Stream

  • Email Students

  • Commenting (if you turn it on) on Classwork posts

  • Email Students with the same work status (contact all students who have not submitted an assignment, for example)

  • New Feature: To Do List

  • Meet

    • Enable the Google Meet Link in each class (in settings)

    • Start a Google Meet with the Class Meeting Link in the class header--use this link for all Meets associated with the Classroom

      • K-1 Teachers will create a Google Classroom and turn on the Meet link-don't add students or assignments. You won't use this Classroom for anything but the Meet link.

      • Share the Meet link from this class through parent communications, Seesaw, or add it to your Clever teacher page. Students call also bookmark this link in Chrome.

      • Use this link for all Meets associated with your class.

    • Mute Participants (Google has announced that the ability to mute all participants will be coming soon.)

    • Remove Participants

    • Share Screen

      • Use a iPevo document camera and the iPevo Visualizer App within a Meet (screen share)

    • Use/moderate the chat feature

      • Share links in the chat

      • Use the chat when troubleshooting audio issues (when a microphone is not working)

    • Captions in a Meet

    • Be the last to leave the Meet

      • Students can stay in the meeting if the teacher leaves first.

      • Students can not enter a meeting unless a teacher opens the meeting.

      • New Meet features will be added soon that will enable the moderator to remove everyone else from the meeting

    • Use only this link for classroom meetings-even small groups to avoid confusion and students waiting for the wrong Meet to open

      • You can share the meeting link with other teachers who want to join

    • You can post office hours and leave the meeting open for students to join

    • Record a Meet to create instructional videos

      • Pre-recording is suggested for quality control (Teacher is the only person in the Meet)

        1. Recording with students in the Meet will capture student video/audio as well as teacher video and presents privacy concerns

      • Share your desktop or tab within a recording

        1. You can share your desktop and use the Ipevo Visualizer App and Ipevo doc cam within a recording

      • Access the recordings within the "Meet Recordings" folder in Google Drive

      • Rename the recordings

      • Organize the recordings into subfolders

      • Share the recording folders with specific students (share folders rather than individual recordings)

    • Use/moderate the chat feature

    • New Meet features that will be released over the coming months

• Accessible Instruction

  • Create Classwork

    • Assignments

      • Scheduling Assignments to appear at a specific date and time

    • Quiz Assignments

    • Question

      • Polls

      • Exit Tickets

      • Data collection for graphs

    • Materials (sharing resources that do not require an assignment submission)

  • Utilize video instructions within assignments when beneficial (from Google Drive or YouTube)

    • Link videos created in Seesaw

    • Use Meet to record instructional videos and share from Google Drive

  • Using Google Classroom with i-Ready (direct students to login through Clever rather than the i-Ready login page)

  • Create a Topic in the Classwork Stream

  • Organize Classwork with the Topic feature in the Classwork Stream by days, weeks, or units (manageable, age appropriate chunks)

    • Begin each Classwork post with a number that will communicate to students the sequential list of steps for that week or unit

      • Click the three dots to the right of the Classwork post to move them up or down to keep them in numerical order

• Assessment

  • Provide timely, constructive feedback through comments in the document

  • Viewing Student Work

  • Utilize Google Forms within Classroom

    • Create and Grade Quizzes with Google Forms

  • Set point value/weight to grade assignments when applicable

  • Utilize rubric feature when applicable

    • Grade with a Rubric

  • Return an incomplete assignment to students

Google Classroom Resources

• Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide (Ditch That Textbook)

• Shake Up Learning

• Control Alt Achieve

• Google Classroom Assignments from Teacher and Student Perspectives (Free Technology for Teachers)

Google Classroom Student Skills/Knowledge

• Logging into the Chromebook or Chrome Browser

• Open Classroom

• Join a class with the class code

• Select the correct class from the class menu

• Participate in the class

  • Navigate between the tabs (Class Stream, Classwork, People)

  • Find weekly topics and tasks in the Classwork tab

    • Understand that the tasks are numbered in completion order

  • New Feature: To Do List

  • Opening Classwork

  • Opening Documents (Docs, Slides, Drawings) attached to assignments

  • Attaching a new Document to an assignment

  • Completing the Assignment

  • Submitting the assignment after completion

    • Unsubmitting an assignment

  • Responding to Feedback

  • Resubmitting the assignment

• Google Meet

  • Open a Meeting using the Meet link in the Classroom header

  • Participate in the meeting in accordance with teacher expectations

  • How to mute their microphone

  • When to mute their microphone (when they are not talking or they are in a noisy environment)

  • Access the chat

    • When to use the chat

      • Technical issues (their microphone is not working)

      • Sharing links

  • Leave a meeting

  • Know how the teacher is sharing Meet recordings, and where to access the recordings