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Google Classroom: The Ins and Outs

March 27, 2020

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Today’s Presenters:

Tyler Erwin

Annamarie Rinehart

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Who is Forward Edge?

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Solutions that solve problems, create value for the customer and ultimately have a meaningful impact for the classroom.

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Today’s Agenda

• Google Classroom-Why Use It?
• Class Set Up
• Create classes
• Invite students and parents
• Add co-teachers
• Stream
• Classwork
• Grades and Feedback
• Best Practices

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Google Classroom-Why Use It?

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Why Google Classroom?

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• Paperless classroom→ no lost assignments!
• Streamline educational workflow
• Post assignments, announcements, and give feedback in real time
• Can be accessed on virtually any device
• Easy communication with students and families

• Collaboration among students (discussions, shared Docs,etc)
• Easily include photos and videos in your assignments
• Differentiate assignments by assigning them to whole class, small group(s), individual students
• Built in grading/feedback

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Class Set Up

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Getting Started

Creating Courses

Inviting People

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• Create a class
• Edit class information
• Reorder you class cards
• Set student permissions
• Customize notifications

• Invite students
• Add a co-teacher
• Remove a student
• Remove a co-teacher
• Invite a guardian

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Stream

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Stream

How do you use it?

What can you do with it?

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Stream is where all of your announcements and assignments will be posted.

1. Click in the space that says “Share something with your class”
2. Decide on your audience (whole class, small group, individuals)
3. Type your message, include any relevant attachments.

• Connect with your students
• Post announcements
• Post reminders of when class will be meeting
• Post videos (check-ins, motivational videos, etc)
• Post updates for due dates
• Send messages to specific students/groups of students (great for inclusion teachers!)

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Classwork

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Classwork

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• Assignment: Give your assignment a title, description, point value, due date/time OR schedule it, add any attachments
• Quiz Assignment: Classroom creates a blank quiz using a Google Form and attaches it to the assignment. You can then edit the quiz and add questions.
• Question: Ask students a short answer or multiple choice question (good for exit tickets, polls, quick formative assessment check ins)
• Material: Share links, videos, files, etc.
• Reuse Post: Reuse an assignment/question that you have used in the past; edit ANY part of the assignment/question and post it!
• Topic: Organize your assignments/questions/quizzes

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Classwork Tips and Tricks

Make the most of the materials you post

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• Add materials
• View your Classroom Drive folder
• Tips with Quiz Assignments
• Create/use rubrics
• Turn on originality reports
• Use the Classroom share button
• Post to one/more classes
• Post to individual students

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Grades and Feedback

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Grade Work; Give Feedback

View student work

Use the grading/feedback dashboard

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• View student work: to-do page
• View all student work
• Email students w/ work status
• View an originality report
• View/update gradebook

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• Draw/write on student work
• Give feedback on assignments
• Grade with a rubric
• Grade/return assignment
• Grade/return question

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Best Practices

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Helpful Tips and Tricks

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• Always “make a copy for each student”
• Students can “mark as done” if the assignment does not require an actual product to be turned in
• Create topics with purpose
• Chronological order
• By week
• By date

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• Adjust Stream commenting-
• Teachers can post and comment
• Integrate other applications with Google Classroom
• Quizlet
• Edpuzzle
• Edulastic
• Add co-teachers
• Change your email notifications

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Questions?

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