Course Overview

In this self-paced online course, participants will become acquainted with the popular digital classroom tool: Google Classroom. Learn how to access Google Classroom, create a course, add students, post assignments, and use the built-in grade book.

All FWISD educators are welcome to attend this beginner-level course.

Level: Beginner

FLEX ELECTIVE CREDIT: 1

CPE CREDIT: 1

Please note that there may be some practice steps included below. These are not required to receive credit for this course. Credit is granted to participants who score a minimum of 80% on the Course Assessment.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to...

access Google Classroom and create a class.
add students, assignments, and materials to a class.
use the built-in gradebook.

Guiding Questions

How do you access Google Classroom through the Classlink portal?
How do you create a class?
How do you navigate the Stream, Classwork, and People tabs?
How do you add students manually and by join code?
How do you create a new assignment?
How do you create a topic and add materials?
How do you use the gradebook?

Read the information to learn more about the benefits of using Google Classroom.

Benefits of Using Google Classroom

Integrates easily with G-Suite applications.
Allows students to interact and learn from each other. Plus, it creates opportunities for teachers to provide feedback and support in or out of the physical classroom.
Saves time. Students have all of the information in one easy to access place. No more forgetting assignments or materials at school. For teachers, they have all of the students' information, assignment submissions, and grades in one location.

Reflect: Why you are interested in using Google Classroom. What benefits does Google Classroom offer you and your students?

Watch the video to learn to access Google Classroom.

Read the information to learn how to create a new class.

Creating A New Class

After opening Google Classroom through the FWISD portal (www.fwisd.org/myfwisd), follow these directions to create a new class:

1. On the Google Classroom page, click Add+ in the top right-hand side next to the waffle/app launcher. Teachers should see the options to Join class or Create class. FWISD students only have the option to Join class.

2. A window will pop-up. Enter the Class Name in the space provided. Although you have the option to add Section, Subject, and Room information, it isn’t required. Once you have entered your information, click Create (bottom left of pop-up). You can go back and edit this information in the Settings if you need to later.

*The Add+ sign that you used to Create Class will be used by students when they join your Google Classroom. However, they will select the Join Class option and enter the provided code. You will learn where to find the code in our next lesson.

Log into your Classlink Portal and create a new class.*Although this step is not required to receive credit for this course, we encourage you to apply what you have learned so far.*

Classlink Portal

Watch the video to learn more about how to navigate Google Classroom.

Read the information to learn how to add students and co-teachers to your classroom.

Adding Students to Google Classroom

Inviting Students to Join Google Classroom

The easiest way to invite students to join your Google Classroom is to share the Join Code with them. Once students have the Join Code (located on the class header), students will follow these directions:

Open Google Classroom through the FWISD portal (www.fwisd.org/myfwisd). Students cannot join a class using their personal Gmail account. Always encourage your students to use the Portal whenever they are accessing any of their FWISD applications.

On the Google Classroom page, click Add+ in the top right-hand side, next to the waffle/app launcher. FWISD students only have the option to Join class.

3. Students will then enter the Class Code and click Join.

Adding Co-Teachers to Your Classroom

Before asking another teacher to join your Google Classroom as a co-teacher, it is important to know that co-teachers have many of the same rights as you do in the digital classroom.

Co-teachers can:

Create assignments
Give feedback on student work
Enter grades
Post on the class stream
Access the class Google Drive folder
Email teachers and students

Co-teachers cannot:

Delete a class
Remove the primary teacher from a class
Mute another teacher in a class

Follow these directions to invite a teacher to join your Google Classroom

Open the class you want to add the co-teacher.
At the top, click on the People Tab.

3. Click Invite teachers.

4. Enter the email address of the teacher you want to invite in the pop-up window. Remember to use first.last@teachers.fwisd.org. Then click Invite.

5. Invited teachers will need to sign-in to Classroom and click Accept on the class card.

Note: You can invite students to join the classroom by invitation as well. The process is the same except students' Google usernames are s123456@students.fwisd.org (123456 is their student ID). We don’t recommend doing this for every student. This should be used on a very limited basis for students who are having trouble joining the class using the join code.

Watch the video to learn more about how to create topics, assignments, and materials.

Practice creating a new topic, assignment, and material in your Google Classroom.*Although this step is not required to receive credit for this course, we encourage you to apply what you have learned so far.*

Read the information, and watch the animated slides to learn more about how to use the gradebook feature.

Grading Assignments

The Gradebook Feature

You can see all of the grades you've given in a class by clicking on the Gradebook tab. In this view, you can also see the status of an assignment. In one glance, you can tell which assignments have been turned in but are not yet graded, which assignments are missing, and which have already been graded.

GC Gradebook

Please note that when you grade an assignment in the Gradebook, the students will not see their grades until you click on the three dots next to the grade and select Return.

To learn more about this feature, check out the resources from the Google Help center by clicking the button below.

Google Help: View or Update Your Gradebook

You must answer all questions correctly and receive a score of at least 80% to receive credit for this course.

👉You may retake the assessment as many times as you need in order to score 80%👈

NOTE:

You must be logged into your FWISD Google Account in order to take this assessment. In another browser window, navigate to www.fwisd.org/myfwisd and log in. If you have not used your FWISD Google Drive before, you must click on Google Drive within your MyFWISD portal in order to activate your FWISD Google connection. Once you have initiated that connection, you will be able to return to this page and click on the image above to take the assessment.

Before taking the assessment, can you answer these guiding questions?

How do you access Google Classroom through the Classlink portal?
How do you create a class?
How do you navigate the Stream, Classwork and People tabs?
How do you add students manually and by join code?
How do you create a new assignment?
How do you create a topic and add materials?
How do you use the gradebook?

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