Get Started

Student Responsibilities

• View: Google Classroom for Teachers: Locate Classroom and Create Class
• View: Google Classroom for Teachers: Enroll and Manage Students
• View: Google Classroom for Teachers--About Page
• View: Manage Classes
• View: Recent Updates to Google Classroom (August 2017)
• Read/View: Welcome to your First Day of Classroom (Google's Training Center for Google Classroom)
• Read: Get Started (review Google's support materials as needed)
• Read: Create and Manage Classes (review Google's support materials as needed)
• Read: How Classroom Works (review Google's support materials as needed)
• Read: Guardians (review Google's support materials as needed)
• Read: Extending Classroom (review Google's support materials as needed)
• Read: Add a Class Resource Page

Tasks

• Log in to your school Google account, proceed to Google Drive: https://drive.google.com, and locate Google Classroom via the "Waffle" icon (Google Apps Launcher). Alternatively, visit https://classroom.google.com. If this is your first visit to Google Classroom, please identify yourself as a Teacher.
• Create a class and invite your classmates for this class and the teacher (Rob) to join ( copy and paste the Class Code in your discussion post). Alternatively, invite the teacher and your current students to join.
• Decide what type of privileges you would like to assign to your students:
  • Students can post and comment
  • Students can only comment
  • Only teachers can post or comment
• Create a Class Description on your About page
• Add Class Materials to your About page

Discuss

Complete the following on Google Classroom.

• Share your Class Code to allow your classmates to enroll in your class as students.
• Share your thoughts on the positive/negative aspects of using Google Classroom to collaborate and communicate with your students and how you might integrate this tool into your teaching.
• Feel free to comment on at least one other student's post.

Link to Google Classroom