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Google Classroom

QuickStart Guide

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Using These

Materials

Video Demonstrations

I am John Doe, Your Presenter!

  • Click the small monitor icon found in the corner of many pages for a short video demonstration of the skill

Google Classroom

Quick Start Guide

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QuickStart Objectives

Review

Create

Assign

Create your Google Classroom with the settings you need.

Set up announcements and assignments structured correctly for learning objectives.

Learn how to grade, provide feedback, and return work to students.

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • www.googleclassroom.com
    • Make sure you are logged into your school Google account

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  • Click on the + sign and select “Create class”

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  • Enter the name of your class and click “Create”

Create

Create the Classroom

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Select your theme

OR

  • Upload a photo

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Personalize the Classroom

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Click on the on the top right of your Classroom page to access the settings
  • Scroll down, under “General” and “Stream” choose your preference for students’ ability to comment
  • See video for more ideas over control of individual student comments

Create

Comments Preference

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Clicking on the sidebar on the left of your screen will allow you to access all of your classes easily

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The Sidebar

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Clicking on “Classes” at the top will take you back to the Google Classes home screen
  • Scrolling down farther will show you classes that you are enrolled, classes that you have archived, and general Classroom settings

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The Sidebar

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Click and drag to reorder classes

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  • From the sidebar archive a class

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  • And access general Classroom notification settings

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The Homescreen

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Google Classroom creates a folder in your Google Drive - DO NOT DELETE THIS

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Google Classroom Folder on Drive

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Create Your Google Classroom

STOP! My IT Director husband said this slide needed to be repeated. Don’t delete your Classroom folder that the program added to your Drive

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Google Classroom Folder on Drive

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Easiest way is to give them the code and have them join (view on Stream tab or by clicking the gear at the top of each page)

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Get Students Enrolled

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Create Your Google Classroom

  • Inviting students to join is the other option - you must have all of their email addresses
  • Click on the People tab and on the “Invite students” button
  • Enter email addresses
  • Students will not appear until they have accepted your invitation

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Get Students Enrolled

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Create Your Google Classroom

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  • Click on the People tab and on the “Invite teachers” button
  • Enter email addresses
  • Teachers will not appear until they have accepted your invitation

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Add a Co-Teacher

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Create an Announcement

  • Make sure you are in the “Stream”
  • Click on “Share something with your class”
  • Type your message

Keeping Students Informed

Assign

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Create an Announcement

  • Click on the “Add” button to add a link or attachment
  • Post to multiple classes or to a certain group of students within a single class using the two “For” dropdown menus

Add a Link or Attachment

Assign

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Create an Announcement

  • Click on the ARROW next to the “Post” button to save your draft for later or schedule it to appear in the stream at a designated time
  • Click the “Post” button to place immediately into the Stream

Post, Save Draft, or Schedule

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Now

Later

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Create an Announcement

  • When you save a draft of an announcement, you might have trouble finding it...

Find the Draft

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • Make sure you are on the “Classwork” tab
  • Click on the “Create” button, and choose one of the following:

Let’s Get Started

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Create an Assignment

  • You post it, they submit it, you grade it.
  • Most commonly used
  • Attach documents, worksheets, PDF’s, links, etc.
  • Students can also attach their own documents, links, videos, etc. in addition to interacting with yours

“Assignment”

Assign

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Create an Assignment

“Assignment”

Assign

  • Are you attaching documents? Make sure you understand the difference between “view”, “edit”, and “make a copy” options

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Create an Assignment

“Assignment”

Assign

  • View - use for a reference material for the assignment
  • Edit - (dangerous!) use for a document all students will collaborate on
  • Make a Copy - most widely used, student fills out whatever template you have completed and submits

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Create an Assignment

“Assignment”

Assign

  • Did you forget to “make a copy” and posted the assignment? Happens to all of us… Watch the video to see a quick way to fix.

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Create an Assignment

  • Will prompt you to create a quiz in Google Forms
  • Green video below shows you how to use this feature, the yellow video demonstrates how to create a Google Form quiz once you access this feature

“Quiz Assignment”

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Create an Assignment

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  • If you create the Google Form quiz from this option, you have the ability to import the score into the Google Classroom gradebook
  • If you use this option though, the quiz is stored in your Google Classroom folder (many people don’t like this lack of control over organizing their Drive and trying to find these materials again)

“Quiz Assignment”

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • Create a question that students can either respond with a short answer or via multiple choice
  • Settings can be changed so that students can see class responses to multiple choice or can respond to classmate’s short answer replies
  • See video for more information on setting up a question

“Question”

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Create an Assignment

  • Use materials to simply create a space for things students need to keep as a reference (ie. course syllabus, rubrics,

etc.) or a place to store resources and handouts

  • Consider sorting by topic if you have a variety of resources
  • No due dates available for materials

“Material”

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • A previous assignment from your Google Classroom or an assignment from a different Google Classroom you have can be reused
  • Great for recurring assignments or if you need to schedule something to multiple classes (unfortunately you are not able to schedule an assignment across multiple classes
  • See video for a how-to on reusing posts

“Reuse Post”

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Create an Assignment

  • Finished! - assign it, save it, or schedule it
  • Who you are assigning it to
  • Assign points if you choose
  • Assign a due date and time
  • Assign a topic (if desired) to help organize Classworks

Features of All Assignments

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • Default assigns to the class you are working in
  • Use the menu on the right to assign to selected students within the same class
  • Use the menu on the left to assign to multiple classes

Who is Assigned the Work

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • Type in the number of points or choose “ungraded”
  • Select due date and time if desired

Assign Points & Due Date/Time

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Create an Assignment

  • Not necessary, but can keep Classworks page organized
  • Choose an existing topic or create a new topic right from the menu

Assign a Topic

Assign

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Create an Assignment

Assign a Topic

Assign

VS.

No Topics

Topics

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Create an Assignment

  • Topics could be grouped by unit, week, day, projects, tests, etc.
  • In the Classwork tab, grab the assignment to change its order within the topic or move it to another topic - reorder topics in the same way

Assign a Topic

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • Clicking “Assign” puts it into the students’ stream immediately
  • Clicking the dropdown arrow can save a draft to come back later to or schedule it to appear in the students’ stream on a specific day/time

Assign It!

Assign

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Create an Assignment

  • Options available by clicking on the three dots to the right of an assignment/topic on the Classwork page

Miscellaneous

Assign

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Create an Assignment

Watch an Assignment from Start to Finish

Assign

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Review

  • Let’s watch this video together!

Grading and Returning Work

Review

Another idea

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Review

  • Students will see the private comments as soon as you click the “Post” button, regardless of whether or not you have returned the assignment

Grading and Returning Work

Review

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Review

  • Adding a grade will dump it into the “Grades” tab (consider working with IC open and putting in grades as you go - especially if SBG and assessing more than one skill

Grading and Returning Work

Review

Class Average

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Tips

  • Use the copy machine to make a PDF of resources
  • Use the copy machine to create a JPEG file if you need students to “write” on the document - insert the JPEG file into a Google Doc and then add text boxes where you want students to type answers

But Most of My Materials are on Paper!

Tips

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Follow Up

Ways I Can Continue to Assist You

I will reach out to you in the next couple of days to find out how things are going and what else I can do to assist you

Follow Up

Start setting up your Classroom and drop by my office this afternoon

Meet This Afternoon

siebenm@unit5.org

309.256.8533

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