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First Steps
First Steps
Creating your Google Classroom
Creating your Google Classroom
Start here if this is your first time creating a Google Classroom. Google Classroom is a platform that helps you organize assignments, allows for collaboration and helps with communication.
Google Classroom App
Google Classroom App
Student Directions
Student Directions
Translating Google Classroom
Translating Google Classroom
This is a short video that teaches you how to translate your Google Classroom into another language. Students can also use the same tool to translate their Google Classroom into another language if needed.
Next Steps (Advanced Tips)
Next Steps (Advanced Tips)
Using Google Classroom
Using Google Classroom
Now that you have at least one classroom created with students added, we can look at each of the four tabs in Classroom. You will see these at the top of the screen when you open a classroom, and each of the tabs gives you a different tool for working with your class.
Each link below has specific instructions if you are just learning to use Google Classroom.
Stream Tab: Create announcements and manage conversations
Classwork Tab: The second tab is the Classwork tab which accomplishes two big tasks for you: first, it allows you to post various materials (assignments, quizzes, etc.) for students to access. Second, this tab allows you to create a structure for organizing your posted materials.
People Tab: The third tab is the People tab where you add and remove students, parents/guardians, and co-teachers. This tab also provides an easy way to email groups of students or guardians.
Grade Tab: The final tab is the Grades tab which gives you a spreadsheet-like view of assignments and grades, and lets you quickly input and edit scores and comments. Although you can work with grades from the Classwork tab, the Grades tab makes it easier to view and work with many assignments at the same time.
Tools for Teachers
Tools for Teachers
This section is not specific to Google Classroom, but instead shows some ways to use other Google tools to more easily manage your work life. The tools include GMail, Google Keep, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the new Google Tasks. All of these tools seamlessly integrate across desktop, web, and phone apps.
Instructional Design
Instructional Design
Organizing your Google Classroom
Organizing your Google Classroom
Once you have created your Google Classroom it is important to find an organization method that works for you and the subject you teach. It is easier to set up a system and teach your students how to use it at the beginning of the year than to switch systems in the middle of the year and have to retrain them. Check out the videos and read the blogs below for different organization tips.
Management
Management
Setting and Notifications
Setting and Notifications
You have now created a Google Classroom, shared your Google Classroom and communicated through your Google Classroom to students and families. Now you are noticing you are getting a lot of notifications and your emails seem to be piling up. If you would like to know how to change your notifications and settings, this page is for you. Below are different setting and notifications videos that really help personalize Google Classroom for you.
Organizing your Google Classroom
Organizing your Google Classroom
Once you have created your Google Classroom it is important to find an organization method that works for you and the subject you teach. It is easier to set up a system in the beginning of the year to teach your students than to switch systems in the middle of the year and have to retrain your class. Check out the videos and read the blogs below for different organization tips.
Students and Families
Students and Families
These links have tutorials to show how students and families (called Guardians in Classroom) interact with Google Classroom.
Students will use materials and assignments you post.
Guardians can be invited to classes and they can receive summary emails describing missing assignments and upcoming work.
Once you have set up your Google Classroom and figured out how to best organize it for your grade level and/or subject you teach it is important to communicate to your students and families how to use Google Classroom. Below are different videos that can be viewed by you and your families. Feel free to view the videos below and send specific video links to your families. Videos posted below are in different languages for families to better understand Google Classroom and how to help their student navigate this platform.
Family Guide - Spanish En español
Family Guide - Russian На русском
Family Guide - Mandarin 用中文（表達
Family Guide - Portuguese Em português
Family Guide - Bengali বাংলায়
Family Guide - Haitian an ayisyen
Family Guide - Arabic بالعربية
Family Guide - Urdu اردو میں
Family Guide - Albanian Në shqip
Family Guide - Polish Po polsku
Family Guide - French En français
Family Guide - Greek Στα ελληνικα
End of Year/New Grading Period
End of Year/New Grading Period
You have successfully completed your year and are wondering what to do with your Google Classroom. Please view the document below on 5 steps you can take to close up your Google Classroom and get ready for the next year.
New Grading Period - There are different thoughts and ideas around new grading periods in Google Classroom. The choices tend to be: keep the same Classroom all year, start a new one every grading period, duplicate your current classroom and delete the assignments and lastly create grading categories for each grading period so that grades can be zeroed out from the gradebook. Please check out the resources below to see which best fits your needs.
Differentiation and Adaptation
Differentiation and Adaptation
Hybrid Strategies
Hybrid Strategies
Websites and Apps
Websites and Apps
Now that you have added Classwork, streamlined your Stream and found a method of organizing your Google Classroom you may want to explore other websites and apps that sync to your Google Classroom. Below is a list of different websites and apps that will sync with your Google Classroom. All these apps and websites will allow you to create assignments and send it directly to your established Google Classroom. These are great tools to use in in-person, remote or hybrid instruction.
CommonLit - Reading passages (Literature and Informational) with questions. Able to sync with Google Classroom.
Mote - A Google extension that can get added to Chrome and allows you to leave voice comments on student work.
Screencastify - Create videos (screen only, screen and face, or just face) and send them straight into your Google Classroom.
Fluency Tutor - Allows you to assign passages to students to have them practice their fluency. As the teacher you can give them specific scores based on their recorded reading.
Flipgrid - As a teacher you can create topics and questions for your students to respond to with up to a 90 second video response. Students can respond to each other, if setting allows for it.
Quizizz - An engaging quiz builder that can be assigned as homework or played live. Quizzes can be sent straight to Google Classroom as an assignment.
Pear Deck - Interactive slide show builder that can be student paced or teacher/presenter paced.
Padlet - An interactive virtual board where students can respond to questions, post their prior knowledge or organize their thoughts. As the teacher you create the board and can share it straight to a selected Google Classroom.
Khan Academy - Allows you to find and assign lessons of all content matter to students in your Google Classroom.
Formative - Real time responses to formative assessments, allows you to intervene quickly to student misconceptions. You can create your own or search from pre-made ones.
Quizlet - Create simple vocabulary or term banks to assign to students to learn content. You can also search already created quizlets to assign to your Google Classroom.
Kahoot - Game based learning platform. You can create your own or search from already created topics.
Screencast-o-matic - Free video recording and editing tool.
InsertLearning - Insert instructional content on any web page and share with your class via Google Classroom.
DOGONews - Search for different student friendly news articles to share with students by importing your Google Classroom.
Dreamscape - A reading game that links your 2nd - 8th grade Google Classroom.
Code - Coding activities for Elementary, Middle and High School Students.
MathGames - Math games that can be searched by grade level or topic.
Writable - Helps students become more proficient writers and allows teachers to scaffold writing assignments.
Actively Learn - Online reading assignments with questions for students to answer.
CK-12 - Math, science, social studies and ELA assignments at different grade levels to assign to students.
Edpuzzle - Turn any video into an interactive assignment that can be pushed out to students via Google Classroom.
Nearpod - An app that allows a slide show to be interactive. Large library of already created assignments and videos.
PBS Learning Media - Video resources linked to specific learning standards with activity ideas.
Science Buddies - K - 12th grade science project ideas and topics that allow students to explore different scientific ideas.
BrainPop - Library of videos that teach various different concepts. Some free videos, but a paid account lets you access more.
Newsela - News articles that can be adjusted to different reading levels and incorporated within Google Classroom.
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