Google Classroom
Google Classroomaims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.
This page houses resources on Google Classroom including livestreams, documents, links to resources, and ideas for implementation. As with all applications, please feel free to reach out to the Educational Technology Team.
Google Classroom Trainings
Learn five great tips on organizing your Google Classroom to make life easier for you and your students. We’ll also share some key differences in what your classroom looks like on your end versus what your students see.
Learn how to add categories and rubrics to assignments, increase the teacher-student connection with personalized comments from a comment bank, create collaborative opportunities for students, view responses from a Google Form/Quiz, and return work in Google Classroom.
This session will cover how to access Google Classroom, invite students, and add co-teachers & guardians. You will learn how to add topics, course material, assignments, questions for discussion, and how to hold a live Meet with students. Upon leaving this session, you will walk away with a firm foundation of how Google Classroom functions.
The Getting Started with Google Classroom Session 2 livestream reviews creating a quiz assignment in Google Classroom, assessments in Classroom, and grading in Google Classroom.
Using Rubrics in Google Classroom
In Classroom, you can create, reuse, and grade with rubrics for individual assignments. You can also import rubrics and export to share them with other teachers.
You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If a rubric is scored, students see their scores when you return their assignments.
**Note**
When importing rubrics (using Google Sheets), you have to use a specific format to avoid error messages. Check out Alice Keeler's blog post on how to Add a Rubric to Google Classroom with Google Sheets.
Still getting an error? Make sure you don't include line breaks or bullets & use minimal punctuation in the rubric descriptions.
Originality Reports
In Classroom, if you turn on originality reports for an assignment, the reports use Google Search to compare a student’s Google Docs, Google Slides, and Microsoft Word files against webpages and books on the internet.
**Note**
The School District of Palm Beach County has Google Workspace for Education Plus. This account provides unlimited originality reports.
Student Introduction to Google Classroom
As a teacher, the resources below are great ideas that you can share with your students so they know more about Google Classroom.
Are you looking for a video to share with your students to make sure they know how to use Google Classroom? This is a great overview for students.
This video shares a few tips and tricks for students in a short easy to understand way.
Parent Introduction to Google Classroom
As a teacher, the resources below are great ideas that you can share with your parents so they know more about Google Classroom.
Getting Started with Google Classroom for Teachers
This guide reviews everything covered in segment one of our livestream. It reviews how to access Google Classroom, how to get students to join, adjust permissions, mute and unmute comments, customize notifications, and add co-teachers.
Google Classroom Getting Started Session 1.pdfThis guide reviews everything covered in segment two of our livestream. It reviews how to organize content into topics, add course material, how to create an assignment, and how to create a question for discussion.
Google Classroom Getting Started Session 2.pdfThis guide reviews everything covered in segment three of our livestream. It reviews how to create assessments, multiple choice posts, and how to grade assignments.
Google Classroom Getting Started Session 3.pdf
Much like the video above for students, this video helps you make Google Classroom cleaner and easier to navigate. It shares how you can delete some things from the Stream to help guide students to what you want them to see.
Tom Mullaney has so many other videos that can help you make Google Classroom a better experience. Click here to view his YouTube Channel.
Google Classroom Add-Ons
Add-ons can be used directly with Google Classroom to improve productivity. Adobe Express, Kahoot!, Nearpod, PBS LearningMedia, and Pear Deck for Google Classroom have been enabled. Please view the supporting documents below to learn how teachers create an assignment with add-ons and how students submit an assignment.
Recommendations for closing out Google Classroom
Google Classroom Close Out.pdfQ: If a teacher retires at the end of last year and does not archive the Google Classroom before leaving, is there a way to get it archived?
A: If there is a co-teacher, that person can archive the Classroom. Otherwise, submit a Service Request to have the Classroom archived.