Sites v GC

It is a free service to build and maintain a website, it can be used by any user: beginner to advanced.

Course level

• Year to Year Continuity

• Possible to share amongst teachers (ISD and beyond)

Access

• Students

  • Able to edit and add additional resources

  • Access w/o being logged in

  • Device agnostic

• Parents

  • Access to materials not student assignments

  • Able to view class activities and materials to help students

• The World

  • Access to materials not student work or assignments.

  • Share your students opportunities to learn with the rest of the world.

  • Track your viewership

Types of Materials:

• Embedded Videos (YouTube, Vimeo, etc)

• Simulations (PHeT, Desmos, GeoGebra)

• Gifs

• Mini-lessons

• Calendars

• Image Carousels

• Google Drive Files

  • Docs

  • Sheets

  • Slide Presentations

• Embed most items through HTML embedding.

Google Classroom is a simplified blended platform that allows teachers to create, distribute, collect and grade assignments quickly and efficiently.

Class Level

• Provides access to assignments, do nows and exit tickets, announcements

• Can be tailored to different sections of the same course.

• Allows students to post questions responses

• Multiple teachers per classroom

Access

• Students

  • Login required to app

  • Secure

• Parents

  • Guardian Summary

    • Daily or Weekly

  • No access to materials, simply the titles of resources and assignments

• The World

  • Limited to school server access (only those with ISD account can access classroom and then only with access code to the specific class.)

  • No access to materials

Types of Materials

• Specific Assignments

• Do nows and Exit Tickets

• Links to websites

• Links to Google Drive resources