Google Classroom For Teachers
Google Classroom Topics
How to create an assignment. An assignment can be posted immediately, saved as a draft, or scheduled to post at a later date.
- Add materials to the Classwork page. Materials are things like a PDF Syllabus, classroom rules, or topic-related reading.
- How attachments are shared in Classroom. You can attach documents, links, images, videos, interactive learning tools like NotebookLM and Gems, and add-ons to assignments for your students. Classroom works seamlessly with Google Docs, Google Drive, and Gmail.
- Create and assign NotebookLM & Gems in Google Classroom. NotebookLM allows you to generate interactive content, including a video overview, an audio overview, a mind map, flashcards, and even quizes. This link takes you to step-by-step instructions to get started.
- How attachments are shared in Classroom. You can attach documents, links, images, videos, interactive learning tools like NotebookLM and Gems, and add-ons to assignments for your students. Classroom works seamlessly with Google Docs, Google Drive, and Gmail.
- Add topics to the Classwork page. Topics allow you to group things such as class materials or quizes.
- Create a quiz assignment. Google Forms can automatically grade the quiz and you can import the grades into Classroom.
- Create a question. Instead of a quiz, just ask a short-answer/multiple-choice question to track comprehension.
- Use Add-ons. Add-ons provide more resources, such as from Google Arts & Culture, Edpuzzle, Kahoot!, PBS Learning Media, or Typing.com.
- Reuse a post. Once first period has the assignment, you don’t want to redo the whole thing for second period, do you?
Classroom Management
- Fixing Problems. This link covers issues such as students not being able to sign in, or you not being able to invite students, or copying an attachment for students.
- How To Create A Class.
- Manage Class Details and Settings.
- Use The Calendars As A Teacher. View classwork due dates, events, reminders, etc.
- Open your Google Drive As A Teacher. Work you create in Classroom saves to your class's Google Drive folder. In Drive, you can view, organize, and create files and folders.
- Manage Class Details and Settings.
- How To Delete or Archive A Class. That class was SO last nine weeks.
- How To Copy A Class. Same kids, new nine-week grading period. So copy things, and tweak as you need.
- Manage student groups. Best practices for setup and use.
- Learn about Classroom analytics as a teacher. Get a centralized view on Classroom activity data for each class you teach. Easily identify which students might need extra support.