New EdTech Classroom's Sam Kary shares 14 tips for organizing your Google Classroom for maximum efficiency and clarity for you and for students.
Sorting Classwork by topics
Grading student work
Creating and adding rubrics to assignments
Quick look at all of a student's work
Use the Stream page for announcements and conversations (without all the Classwork distractions)
Post video instructions for students
Differentiate assignments with the student selector
Enhance your feedback with rubrics, voice comments, and the comment bank.
Use the Google Classroom mobile app to use speech-to-text comments, annotate directly on student work, and use the random student picker.
Email all students at once
Email all guardians at once
Student view of grades and assigned work
Student posts and comments
Copy a course
Stream settings
Guardian summaries
Assignment features
Have a PDF you want students to be able to edit. Watch this video for a creative way to make this happen.
Another look at how to make a PDF editable for students to share their work in Google Classroom.
When students are using district Chromebooks, you can use locked mode to keep them from opening other tabs or recording their screen during the quiz.
If you include short answer or "paragraph text" questions in a Google Classroom quiz assignment using Forms, this video shows a quick way to review and grade those responses.