Google Classroom
Instructional Examples

Tips & Tricks with Google Classroom:

  • Create a paperless class

  • Communicate with your students with Class Announcements

  • Share resources easily with students

  • Students can easily turn in assignments

  • Confidentiality LMS, allows teachers to see individual student work or group work within the classroom folder that is automatically created. . This makes locating student work a snap!

  • View Completed Assignments clearly and lets teachers quickly see number

  • Share an assignment with multiple classes


Student's Guide to Google Classroom



Google Classroom | Recording Attendance


Ways to Use Classroom:

  • Collaborative Note Taking: Create a Google document and designate some students to be note takers for the discussion. Students can collaboratively take notes on the document and those notes are easily accessible by the other students through an announcement in Classroom.

  • American Museum of Natural History: Educational K-12 programs and resources from the American Museum of Natural History. Use the Share to Classroom button to share relevant articles, curriculum, and resources.

  • Peer Feedback: Share a Google Slides presentation with everyone can edit access. Each student is able to create a slide with their information and other students have easy access to insert comments on other students slides.

  • Create a Discussion on Specific Topic: In Google Classroom, you have a stream that appears by default when you login to your class. This stream can be utilized to collect student opinions by creating discussion topics and new posts.

  • Use CK-12 Foundations library with the Google Classroom integration: This online resource of textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real-world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to history.

  • Student collaboration on writing projects: Google Classroom doesn’t only support using e-portfolios, but with the power of Google Docs, the students can also work together in new ways on Google Docs.

  • Link to interactive simulations: Several websites have interactive math simulations that can help students have a better understanding of math concepts. Google Classroom gives the ability to link to websites as part of lesson sets. Rather than relying on students typing in the correct URL into their browser students can simply click on the link in Google Classroom

  • Stop lecturing: Google Classroom allows the teacher to post videos, documentation or links to instructional websites. Google Classroom supports a flipped teaching model. A lecture is ephemeral, resources in Google Classroom allow students access to instructional resources anytime

  • Use Newsela with the Google Classroom integration, teachers using Newsela can sign up, import classrooms, and share assignments directly with Google Classroom

  • Provide peer tutoring: Team up with an older class to mentor, tutor and support younger students through the creation of a Google Classroom class for this purpose.