Classroom Repositories

This is a neat way of organising your workflow to save you lots of time as term progresses and we get busy. Sound good?

It's also a very good way of working together as a department to create and to refine lessons so they are as effective as possible.

It involves creating a Google Classroom just to store the lessons that you have created. All the teachers involved in teaching the subject will join the classroom but it won't have any students. As and when appropriate, the teachers can then re-post the lessons into the classrooms they share with their students.

This short video explains what to do

Or you could follow the steps below:

1. Start by creating a Google Classroom to store your model lessons. Give it a name that will distinguish it from your other classes - my example is called 'Year 9 English Repository'

2. Within it, create the lessons/assignments you want to store for future use.

3. When you're ready to set an assignment for your class, click the + button (bottom right of the screen) and select REUSE POST

4. From the list that pops up, select the Repository Classroom, the one containing all your model lessons.

5. Then, select the assignment you want to re-use with your own class

If the assignment contains a document you want to copy for each student in the class, make sure you tick the 'create new copies of all attachments' box.

If you just want your students to be able to view the documents, you can uncheck this

6. Then, click the triangle and, from the pop up list, select the class where you want to post the assignment.

You can select several classes if you wish

As normal, you can choose to schedule the assignment, set a deadline, assign a topic etc

Two things to bear in mind:

When you reuse a post, Google Classroom will automatically re-use it in the original classroom as well as in the new one you select. The danger is that you'll end up with lots of identical copies in the Repository - so just remember to delete the copy as soon as you've made it.
When you post to more than one classroom, you have to post to the whole class. You can no longer select individual students.

A slight pain but not a great problem when you consider the benefits in my view.

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