Google Classroom
Setting Up Your Google Classroom Step-by-step
The resources below will help you set up your Google Classroom(s)! There is a written users guide and also a full video tutorial of the same information.
If you are a Secondary Teacher, we suggest you set up a separate Google Classroom for each hour section you teach. Elementary Teachers: there is an additional short tutorial below with tips to help you organize your digital classroom space!
User's Guide
Video Tutorial
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS...
Some great tips to help you organize your classroom because you have multiple subjects for one class of students!
Creating Assignments
This video will quickly walk you through the process of creating assignments in Google Classroom!
There are many kinds of assignments you can create for individual or even group and collaborative work. This video will show you how!
Grading Assignments
Now that you have given a fantastic assignment to your students via Google Classroom, how do you check on their progress? How do you digitally grade the work and give comments and feedback? This brief tutorial will show you how.
Linking Classroom To Tyler 360
WHAT?! You don't have to retype all of those grades into Tyler after grading in Google?! 🤯Nope! Just follow these steps to link your Google Classroom to Tyler 360.
Note: be sure you have a Google Classroom for each separate class section in Tyler for this to work.
Create Assignments for Specific Students
Learn how to create an assignment in Google Classroom that is only distributed to specific students in a Classroom class.
Guardian Summaries
You could have your students' parents receive weekly Google Classroom updates via the "guardian summaries" feature. This sends your parents a weekly email summarizing what assignments were given in Classroom and what was completed, what is missing, and when upcoming items may be due.
👍 Pros: helps parents see what their students should be working on or have finished...parents have no other way to access Classroom unless student logs themselves in to show parents
NOTE: Please be sure that your parents still check TYLER/SIS for the most accurate grade reporting!
👎 Cons: if you do not grade things in classroom regularly, this can be tricky for parents to understand. Example: if you set a due date for an assignment, and the and the student does the work and forgets to click "submit", the parent will get a report saying the work is missing.
Also, if a student clicks "turned in" but didn't actually do the work, the parent will think their student's work is completed.
Teachers need to be sure they regularly keep up with assignments to make this feature work best.
Parent Guide
If you use Google Classroom, you may consider sharing information with your parents about how Google Classroom works. Here are a few resources ready-made you can share. This may be helpful for parents with littles so they can help their child navigate the program, and for any parent who want to know how their child is learning.
Using Google Classroom for Distance Learning!
Google Classroom already lets you push out and collect work from your students anytime and anywhere, but it can also be a great way to have a safe "chat" space with students!
These are a great way for students to participate in conversations even if they are not all able to be in the same place at the same time! 💡 How about a digital book talk, or class debate!? 💡
Click the icon below to be directed to a printable of directions how!
Need any more assistance with Google Classroom? Try their help site : https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/?hl=en#topic=6020277 or contact Jen Walter at Walterje@foxc6.org