Google Classroom

Students MUST use their school email address (ending in @education.nsw.gov.au). If they are signed into Google with a personal Gmail account, they need to sign out and login with their school email address.

Parents/carers in the high school will be added as guardians to their child's classes, which will enable you to receive email summaries for announcements and tasks set by teachers to your child(ren). The email address the school has on file will be used to link parents/carers to Google Classroom.

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Explanation of the Stream & Classwork pages

The Stream

This is the running blog of all action on the Google Classroom group. It will list messages from your teacher and notifications of new material, documents and assignments being uploaded.

It usually lists actions in time order, and includes a message feature. You can directly comment to the whole group or just the teacher.

Remember that this is a public forum, so everyone will see what you write and it needs to be appropriate. In different classes, this feature may be turned off by your teacher. Your teacher also has the authority to remove any unwanted comments or posts.

Classwork (and Topic Folders)

The Classwork page shows you all the (links to) material, slides, documents, uploads and work that have been added and/or assigned by your teacher. This page usually scrolls in order of the topic folders created by the teacher. These topic folders are located on the left-hand side menu bar of the classroom and stream pages and can help you to navigate directly to particular information or work. Material that is not filed under a specific topic folder, will sit at the top of the classwork list.

The “VIEW YOUR WORK” tab under classwork shows a list of only the actual assignments that your teacher has set for submission. It does not show other tasks or work instructions that may have been mentioned in material or documents elsewhere in classwork.

Hint: be sure to always check the stream in case your teacher posts important information or work for you to complete in a “comment” or message format rather than as an “assignment” under classwork.

“Assignments” have the added feature of being digitally submitted, marked and graded through the classroom so you may find teachers might set lots of small ‘assignments’ as an easy way for you to keep track of your class activities and progress.

Instructions on how to submit a task: Youtube Video (opens in new window)

Best practices

Minimise the amount of comments.

Teachers are notified by an email message every time you make any action on Google Classroom. For example, each time you write a comment or submit a piece of work, they receive an individual email to say you have done so. You can imagine how many emails teachers may receive if everyone makes repeated comments. So, please limit your comments and questions on Google Classroom. Try asking a friend or family member first, and save the questions for teachers if you are only absolutely genuinely stuck.

Only submit completed work:

Unless your teacher tells you otherwise, please don’t click submit until you have uploaded and completed all parts of the assigned task. Try to have the entire activity completed before you hand it in. Google allows you to upload multiple documents at once before submitting. Get in the habit of doing it all at once. This also then saves the need to “unsubmit” and “resubmit” tasks, which again triggers more email notifications to your teacher.