Let’s talk Google Classroom! Google has opened up Google Classroom to everyone! You can also set up a Google Classroom account from your personal gmail just to explore.
Be careful if your district hasn’t set up Google Classroom. Students do need Google emails to use it and there are legal issues about giving email addresses to children. Your school should help you with that.
How to use Google Classroom
The first thing I want to tell you is you do not have to do all the things, so take a deep breath and promise me one thing, and only one thing–try something small and work from there. I promise technology will be less intimidating if you take one step at a time.
What can you do with Google Classroom?
- Post an assignment
- Ask a question
- Make an announcement
- Assign a variety of activities
- Share class news and updates
- Assign quizzes
- Grade assignments
- Manage students
- Digital student collaboration
4 Steps: Getting Set-Up
- Sign in to your Google G Suite Google Classroom account here. You can use a personal account as well, but everything is easier with G Suite.
- Time to set up your first class! Find the (+) in the top right corner and create a class. Fill in some basic info. Name the class something your class will recognize. You can come back and edit those details if you like.
- Next, invite your students to join your class! You can do this manually under “People”, and you can even add co-teachers as instructors, or you can give your students your class code to join themselves. Honestly, using the class code is the way to go! You can find the code under STREAM. Just click on the code to make it large.
- Now you can post assignments under “Classwork”. The “Stream” is where you can post notes to your students, and where new assignments will appear.
Google Classroom Tutorial
Thank you, Amy, for this tutorial! It explains how to create a simple question and answer format in Google Docs and post it as an assignment.
Where Can I Find Resources to Assign?
⭐⭐Find all of my resources for Google HERE.⭐⭐
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