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Set up your first Google Classroom, the main features you'll be using, and some tips and tricks. You will learn how to:
Create a classroom
Share messages
Create assignments
Create class questions
Add materials
Organize content
And more!
Here's one option to minimize legwork on your part for taking attendance during each live session: the Question feature in Google Classroom. It lets you create a prompt or question for all (or selected) students to answer. You can begin each class with a digital "do now" that doubles as a time-stamped attendance indicator or a simple "Respond to this for your attendance to count" prompt. This is also a great tool for formative assessments and quick discussions.
You can give assessments via Google Classroom in "locked" mode, which will prevent students from opening other tabs while taking the assessment. To do this, create an assignment and choose "Quiz assignment." You'll have to create your assignment using a GoogleForm, which takes a little work, but it's a great feature to enforce academic integrity in these remote times.
This guide teaches you how to adjust e-mail notifications from your Google Classrooms, including how to stop all notifications or just receive them for specific events or classes.
You can also add students and guardians directly to your classes, rather than sending out codes and relying on students to enter them. Jump to 47 seconds in for the tutorial on how.
A HyperDoc is a digital document—such as a Google Doc—where all components of a learning cycle have been pulled together into one central hub. Within a single document, students are provided with hyperlinks to all of the resources they need to complete that learning cycle.
Teaching Tech Together website and HyperDocs website have many examples, templates, and strategies on implementing HyperDocs in your remote classroom.
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Do you have a bunch of PDF lessons saved but you aren't able to type on them and share with students through Google Classroom? Now you can with this tech hack!