Year 3 Artifacts - Tech Tips

Google Form tip:

Short answers questions are best for 1-3 words.

Use paragraph for anything longer so the box is bigger for students.

Before you make any classrooms, think through your organization.
If Google Classroom emails a notification to you and you hit reply, the reply goes to Never Never Land. All comments must be done in Google Classroom for you or your students to see them.
Under settings, the classwork notifications on the stream have been hidden. This allows students to see your announcements easier.
Think through how you label your classwork. Give a specific title per assignment and sort by topics/week/unit. Even on weekly assignments, put the date on it (make a copy of the original document and rename if needed).
Label your classes with the period and subject at the start, if you're coteaching or have consultant teachers adding the teacher name can be helpful too.
Put the time of your class in the header (especially if it changes.
Have a conversation with any other teachers who are working with your students (English as a Second Language, Special Education, Academic Intervention Services) if you're concerned about adding them as coteachers.

Go to one of your google classrooms
Click on the settings sprocket (upper right corner)
Scroll down to Grading (Marking)
Click “Add grade (mark) category”
Add Marking Period 1
Add Marking Period 2
Add Marking Period 3
Add Marking Period 4
Make all Marking Periods worth 0% except the current marking period. Make that one worth 100%.
Click save in the upper right corner.
Go to your classwork tab in that class.
Edit assignments and in Grade (Mark) Category use the dropdown box to make it be in the marking period that it belongs in.
Click save
Fix all assignments that you want to keep and delete any assignments that you don’t want – usually old attendance assignments.

Create a new Topic for Marking Period 1
Move old assignments into Marking Period 1 Topic by dragging and dropping that assignment.
When a new marking period ends, follow steps 1 – 3 above and then change the 100% to the current marking period and make all others be 0%.
On all future assignments, set the correct marking period in the grade(mark) category.