Introduction to Google Classroom

Course Overview

This course is divided into several Modules that will take you through the steps of creating your own Google Classroom, enrolling your students, leveraging the Class Stream to facilitate virtual discussions and paperless assignments, and managing and grading student work. For each Module, you will read various help articles, view brief video tutorials, and participate in social learning activities. You will practice using the tools to set-up collaborative experiences with your classmates, reflect on each skill, and share best practices.

• Successful completion of this course will result in the accrual of 3 Professional Development hours.
• There are no face-to-face meetings--all course content will be available exclusively on Google Sites.
• All course interactions will take place on Google Classroom.
• See the Course Calendar for all due dates.

Course Objectives

• Create a Google Classroom
• Enroll and manage students in your class
• Post Announcements to the class "Stream" and reply to comments
• Create Assignments and allow students to edit shared files
• Create Assignments and make a copy for each student
• Create Assignments without attachments
• Create "Ask a Question" activities and reply to student responses
• Review student work and provide feedback
• Post materials to the "About" page

Grading

There are several "Tasks" in this course that will be assessed as "complete" or "incomplete" with one point being awarded for each completed Task. For each Task, you must complete the assigned activity and share your thoughts and links to artifacts in Google Classroom.