music notes? missing pillow? different color coffee cup? icons missing from LCSD logo? different color lights in right lamppost? water bottle on table? different color pillow? ... If you found all of those, congrats! Now we're about to talk about the differences between the teacher view of Google Classroom and the student view of Google Classroom.

Notice in the images above that students don't have the option to create like teachers do. Students can only see topics and/or assignments that have actually been assigned. They can not see topics you have created that have no assignments and students cannot see your drafts. Something else worth mentioning is that on the student side, assignments that have been turned in have ghosted or grayed out circles in front of them. Assignments yet to be completed begin with a colored circle. Students, like you, have the ability to filter assignments by topic by clicking on the topics on the left. At the top, students have access to view their work, their calendar, and their Google Drive folder (not yours) for this Google Classroom.

There's only one difference in the Assignment view. Teachers can see number of assignments turned in, assigned, and graded. Teacher can simply click those numbers to access student work. The major difference with assignments is next. The next images compare what happens when teachers and students click that View assignment link in the bottom left hand corner.

When you, as a teacher, click on View Assignment, you access all of the students work. Whether you are providing feedback/comments before students turn in the assignment or checking for accuracy, it's all here. Remember, you have access to students' work while it's in progress and not just after students turn in their work. Take the time to really get familiar with the student's view here. If you provide templates, students access them in top right. If you ask them to upload a screenshot, add a website, create a Google file, etc., they do that in that top right portion too... by clicking on the +Add or Create button. That's where the TURN IN button is too. Stress that. In the middle will be your instructions and/or rubric. On bottom right, that's where they send private questions to you. Make sure they know the difference between Class comments (on the bottom left) and Private comments to you on the right.

When you post a short answer question for your students to answer, the only difference in views are the numbers that show up on your end. Remember what to do with those? I wonder what's going to happen next when both sides click "View question" on the bottom left. Let's find out below.

When you click on View question, just like when you clicked on View assignment, you see all of your students' responses. You can quickly give them grades/feedback right. When students click on View question, they enter their answer and turn in their response in that top right section. Below that is where they can send you a private comment. To the left of that is where they can post a class comment. The Google Classroom assignment features should start taking on a more comfortable feel about now.

The teacher view is awesome. Again, you can click on those numbers to get right to individual students' answers but you also get a quick summary of class responses. How about that for formative assessment! Note of caution on the student side though. Yes, it's true; neither view allows the whole question to be shown if it's a long one. The students, however have the ability to answer AND turn in that answer without actually reading the entire question. Right here's a good time to practice procedures! I'm thinking this a great beginning of year interest inventory/get-to-know your students kind of "assignment." The answers could be quite hilarious if they answer without first seeing the entire question! Just something to think about. 🤣

The easy part is yours. You click View Question and you see all the answers and get all the data. The students get to see the entire question, links you may have provided, have to ability to post class comments and private comments to you and submit their answer in the top right section. A cool feature of this happens after students submit. If you allow students to see summary of responses from their class, when they come back to this assignment after turning it in, the summary of responses will be in that top right section.