Level 1 is All About Knowing Your Tools!

Google Classroom is a collaboration tool for teachers and students that helps organize and streamline the classroom experience. With just a few clicks, you can create a class, add your students, and create assignments or announcements. You'll be able to see who's completed an assignment, who's still working on it, and assign grades when it’s finished. You can also instantly offer feedback to students, and see their questions or comments on their assignments.

Google Drive is like an online hard drive where you can store all your files - stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos - anything! As part of G Suite for Education, Drive has unlimited storage, so you and your students don’t have to worry about full disks, deleting old files, or losing anything when a computer crashes. You can access your files from any device, and, best of all, you never have to save: Drive automatically saves every time you make an edit!

G Suite for Education also includes a number of Google products that promote collaboration among students and with their teachers. Students can work together, in class or at home, to complete assignments and group projects. All of their work is auto-saved, and they can even edit without WiFi.

  • Google Docs: documents come to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. Choose from thousands of fonts, add links, images, drawings, and tables

  • Google Sheets: spreadsheets for analyzing, visualizing, and charting data

  • Google Forms: quick & easy surveys to gather information

  • Google Slides: a presentation tool that makes it easy to tell stories

  • Google Drawings: Graphics and flowchart creation with shapes, text, and images

  • Jamboard: Collaboration whiteboard to add notes & images.

Additionally G Suite for Education includes tools that can be used to save you time and increase student engagement. These include:

  • Gmail: Email, contacts, tasks, and communications

  • Google Calendar: Scheduling, calendars, and appointments

  • Google Hangouts/Meet: Live video conferencing and messaging

  • Google Sites: Webpage creation and publishing

  • Google Groups: Group communication and web forums

Finally, Google has other tools outside of G Suite for Education that can be used in the classroom, which you may be able to access with your same username and password. These are consumer products and are not covered by the G Suite for Education Terms of Service. They include:

  • Chrome: Internet browsing

  • YouTube: Online video hosting and sharing

  • Google Maps/Earth: Interactive maps and satellite imagery

  • Blogger: Publishing blogs