Teaching With Google Classroom: Put Google Classroom To Work While Teaching Your Students And Make Your Life Easier

Teaching with Google Classroom Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easier. By Mr. Prasant Rout

About Book Google Classroom is part of the Google Apps for Education (GAFE) suite packaged for teachers and students for online learning and collaboration.

• Published by Packt Publishing Ltd., USA. • ISBN 978-1-78646-628-0 • Pages -237

Who this book is for • This book is for educators who want to use Google Classroom in their teaching practice. • This book is written in the high school perspective; it is applicable to teachers and educators of all age groups. • If you are new to Google Classroom, this book will improve your online teaching capabilities.

Google Classroom Benefits for Teachers: (Announcement, Assignment, Quiz) Makes announcements and starts classroom discussions.

Automatically creates Drive folders for each assignment. Creates assignments and shares a single document or automatically makes a copy for each student. Collects paperless assignments. Detects who has or hasn't completed the work. Reviews, and grades assignments quickly, all in one place. Provides direct, real-time feedback.

Benefits for Students Class materials are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive. A student can communicate and assist classmates through class discussions. Students can share resources on their own. Students can stay organized with one Drive folder for each class/teacher. Notifies students on class stream when work is assigned and due. Online submission and feedback from teacher on real time .

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Google Classroom

Setting Up Your Class

Sign in for the first time

How materials are shared in Classroom • Classroom works with Google Docs, Google Drive, and Gmail so teachers can assign work to students. • Teachers can attach materials— documents, links, images—to the assignment. • All activity is online using a computer or a mobile device.

How the assignment flow works TEACHER • Allow students to view the file • Allow students to edit the file • Make a copy for each student

Teacher creates an assignment and attaches files.

Teacher grades the students' assignments.

STUDENT • Submit an assignment • Turn in an assignment. • Mark an assignment as done.

Students attach materials or edit files from the teacher and turn in their work.

Students see their grades and can edit their work.

Teacher Setup

Classroom “Home”

Enrolling Students

TEACHER VIEW

Invite students or groups of students

Give students a code to add themselves

Remove a teacher from a class

Remove a student from a class

TEACHER VIEW Enrolling Students • Join a class with a class code • Accept an invitation from your teacher

TEACHER VIEW View your class resource page

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Unenroll from a class

Class rules, materials, and syllabus Grading policies Your teacher’s email address Links to the class Google Drive folder and calendar View class events in Google Calendar

Sharing With Class

Class Assignments • The primary purpose of classroom is to make distributing assignments to students easier. • Assignments can include a due date and time. • Assignments can include a link, video, or attachment.

Student View/ Edit Rights from Teacher

STUDENT VIEW OF ASSIGNMENTS

Classroom creates a folder structure in the students Drive accounts.

Grading Assignments(Teacher View)

When finished grading and commenting on assignments, “RETURN” them to students for review or revisions.

Create Questions

A teacher posts questions in the class stream and you answer them in the same place. A question can have attachments, such as a Google Drive item, a link, or a YouTube video.

Student View(Students Home Page)

USE OF GOOGLE ADDON FOR CLASSROOM

Within minutes you can create a quiz ready for deployment that can: • Automatically grade questions right or wrong • Give a class percentage for each question for multiple classes • Break down which students got which question wrong • Generate personalised, detailed and specific feedback for each student automatically • Send personalised documents to all students via email.

Super Quiz. • Ensure that the first three questions (used to identify students and sort data) collect: – Email – Name – Teacher

Fill out the Form with the correct answers.

• This lets the spreadsheet know how to grade the responses. Multiple choice, check-box, single word or numerical responses work best with Super Quiz.

Install/run the Super Quiz Add-on (found in the Add-on menu). • Set up the spreadsheet to collect the data (this may be automatically done for you). The first four columns in the spreadsheet are crucial and in this order – 'Timestamp' – Email' (or username if Google Apps), – 'Name', – 'Teacher'

• You can rearrange any of the columns here by dragging and dropping.

Click 'Create tabs' from the add-on sidebar. • This will create the nine 'super' tabs. It can take up to one minute. It's worth the wait! • After the tabs have loaded you can have an explore. Click the button to find out more about each. • The first three tabs 'Right or Wrong', 'Class Results' and 'Incorrect Students' are ready to go with no further input required by you.

Document Studio Install the Google Addon • Install Document Studio from the Google store. The add-on is compatible with all browsers and only requires a Google account. Create a Template

• Build your own template with Google Docs, Google Sheets or Google Slide and use {{placeholders}} for merge fields that vary in each document. Configure Data Merge • Import the source data in a Google Sheet or use Google Form to create PDFs from form submissions. Run data merge and one document would be created for each row in the sheet.

Critical Review • Some features of