Google Classroom Update

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Google Classroom Update

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Originality Reports

Citations Using Explore

Rubrics

Google Education's Response to COVID19

Originality Reports (Classroom)

What are Originality reports? — For students, the reports highlight source material in their work and flag missing citations so they can improve their writing. After students submit work, teachers can view reports to verify academic integrity and provide feedback from the grading tool.

How many can a teacher/student run? Teachers can now turn on originality reports for 3 assignments per class. IF you district has G Suite Enterprise for Education (a paid service), then you will have unlimited access to originality reports.

How does it work? Originality reports use Google Search to compare a student’s work against billions of webpages and millions of books. Originality reports link to the detected webpages and flag uncited text.

Why would a teacher/student want to use them?

Help students identify unintentional plagiarism and uncited content before submitting assignments.
Help teachers see where students used source material and where citations are present or missing.

What type of document is required?

It only works on text that is written using a Google Doc.

How long are reports available?

Originality reports are viewable for 45 days. After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.

Originality Report Directions:

Creating One: To make originality reports available to you and your students, turn on originality reports when you create the assignment. When you do, your student can run up to 3 reports on their assignment before submitting it.

On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.

Click the class > Classwork.
Click > Create Assignment.
Next to Originality reports, check the box.

Question: What if I forget to turn on originality report and they have already submitted the assignment?

No problem! You can turn on originality reports after students submit work. However, if you turn on originality reports after a student’s work is submitted, the student can't run a report until you return their work. To let students run a report, return their work and allow them to resubmit their assignment.
You will need to edit the assignment and check the box beside > Originality reports.

Reading the Report:

On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.
Click the class Classwork.
Click the assignment View assignment the student’s file.
The file opens in the grading tool.
To open the report, choose one:
- Under Files, click # flagged passages.
- Note: If no matched sources are found, under Files, you see No flagged passages.
- If you turned on originality reports after receiving student work, go to the grading tool, open the student’s assignment, and click Check originality.

Source: https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9335816

Citations Using EXplore (Docs)

Gathering research can be time-consuming. The Explore tool in Google Docs automatically suggests content based on what you’ve written, so you can quickly add citations. You can also use the Explore tool to find how to cite a website that you have chosen.

Citation Directions:

At the bottom of your document, click Explore .
On the right, you’ll either see suggestions based on your content, of you can insert information in the Search box.
Click links that are relevant to your topic.
Copy and paste any text from suggested content into your document.
Tip: To clear any text formatting, select the text and click Format > Clear formatting.
In the document, select where you want the footnote. Then, in the Explore results, hover over the source you quoted and click the quotation marks icon to add a footnote.

Source: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308832?hl=en

Rubrics (Classroom)

With a rubric you can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If a rubric is scored, students see their scores when you return their assignments.

In Classroom, you can create, reuse, share, view, and grade rubrics for individual assignments.

You can create up to 50 criteria per rubric and up to 10 performance levels per criterion.
To share the rubric with a teacher outside your class you will export it and Google will save it in a folder in your class drive titled Rubric Exports. You can then share the folder with the other teacher and she can insert it into her Google Classroom, make edits, etc.

*Note: Before you can create a rubric, the assignment must have a title.

Directions to Create or Reuse a Rubric

On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.
Click the class Classwork.
Create an assignment with a title under Rubric, click Add Rubric Create rubric.

Below are the different parts of Classroom's rubric. This will help you as you create one so you know what each component does.

Creating a Rubric

On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.
Click the class Classwork.
Create an assignment with a title > under Rubric, click Add + Rubric Create > rubric.
To turn off scoring for the rubric, next to Use scoring, click the switch to the Off position .
(Optional) If you use scoring, next to Sort the order of points by, select Descending or Ascending.
Note: With scoring, you can add performance levels in any order. The levels automatically arrange by point value.
Under Criterion title, enter a criterion, such as Grammar, Teamwork, or Citations.
(Optional) To add a criterion description, under Criterion description, enter the description.
Under Points, enter the number of points awarded for the performance level.
Note: The rubric's total score automatically updates as you add points.
Under Level title, enter a title for the performance level, such as Excellent, Full mastery, or Level A.
Under Description, enter the expectations for the level.
To add another performance level to the criterion, click Add a level and repeat steps 8–9.
To add another criterion:
- To add a blank criterion, in the lower-left corner, click Add a criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
- To copy a criterion, in a criterion’s box, click More Duplicate criterion and repeat steps 6–11.
To rearrange criteria, in a criterion’s box, click More Move criterion up or Move criterion down.
To save your rubric, in the right corner, click Save.

Source: https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9335069

Google Education's Response to the COVID-19

Google sent the following email on March 11, 2020:

Last week, we began rolling out free access to our advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite for Education customers globally including:

Larger meetings, for up to 250 participants per call
Live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within a domain
The ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive

We’re committed to helping students and their teachers continue learning outside of school. Be sure to check out:

Teacher Center resources and trainings
‘Enable Distance Learning with G Suite and Chrome’ EDU OnAir livestream
The Google for Education blog for ideas and inspiration
Have an idea to share? Submit your best strategies for supporting remote learning

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