How to Engage and Support your Students in an Online Classroom

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Presenter: Vicki Anderson

Moderator: Vicky Andrews

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Introduce yourself in the chat and answer this question: What is one way you provide digital feedback?

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Expectations & Norms

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• Practice switching tabs
• Find your mute/unmute button
• Turn off/on your camera
• Use the chat to ask a questions or find links to resources
• Change the layout if you prefer another view
• Play along with examples, it’s ok if you get stuck

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Tips on Viewing the Session

Jump between tabs:

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Or try the Dualless extension for Chrome to split your screen for you!

Split your screen:

Add a new tab

G Suite & Chrome Login

• Sign into your Chrome profile to sync across devices
• Be sure to turn on sync

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Tip for Managing Multiple Accounts: If you have another Google account, use the “Manage People” feature so you can keep accounts separate but still switch easily between them.

“Apps Launcher” (waffle button or Rubik’s cube) - lets you access all of the Google apps services.

Vicki Anderson

Instructional Technology Coach | Scottsdale, AZ

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Vicki@ReconTECHtualize.com

@MsVickiAnderson

bit.ly/ReconAZ

Let’s Play!

• Open Two Truths & One Lie and add your own slide at the bottom.
• Add two truths and a lie.
• Design your slide without changing settings on the whole presentation.
• When finished, use Comments to guess other players’ lies.

Feedback in

Google Classroom

Gradebook

• Comments & the Comment Bank
• Suggesting Mode
• Private Comments vs. Class Comments

Rubrics

New!

Rubrics

Originality Reports

Student Selector

Communication & Feedback Tools

Overview of Google Forms

Click for a very detailed guide to Forms

Forms in Google Classroom

Google Forms: Viewing Results

See a summary of everyone’s results or by question or individual

View spreadsheet of results

Turn on and off responses

Overview of Communicating in Drive

Click to access my full presentation on Drive

Google Docs: Collaboration and Accountability

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Naming conventions allow for Switch modes for

easy document organization different purposes

and make docs easier to find

Link Sharing allows you to share

without typing specific names

NOTE: Much of what we’ll talk about with Docs applies to all Google document types!

Google Docs: Commenting

• Comments can be added to the doc and be visible on the side of the doc or in a comment thread.
• Tasks can be assigned in Comments.
• Users can reply to comments or resolve them if issues are corrected.
• Suggesting mode adds even more features!

Google Docs: Collaboration Benefits

• Real-time collaboration on a “living” document
• Revision history - monitor all changes made to the Doc
• You can even name different versions!
• Restore previous versions - don’t lose important work!
• Can be used for agendas, meeting minutes or group work
• Can be embedded or attached in multiple platforms
• Give suggestions without modifying the document
• Make the document as public or as private as you want

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Google Drive: Tips for Success

• Emoji and punctuation marks for alphabetization
• Sharing folders - manage unique permissions
• “Add to Drive” - move shared files into your Drive
• Star important documents and folders for quick access
• Explore your menu options & use keyboard shortcuts
• Create a playground!
• Remember you have unlimited storage!
• SHARED DRIVES -- best practices

Shared Drives are not the same as “Shared with me” files/folders!

The navigation pane will always tell you where you are in Drive.

Don’t forget the SEARCH options!

Google Slides: Collaboration Features

Slides has many of the same useful features available in other apps:

• Share button & “get a shareable link”
• See Revision History - monitor contributions/restore revisions
• Email as an attachment - opens up in a Gmail message
• Tools Menu - research, spelling and define toolbar for searching within the presentation
• Comments - Insert a comment to provide suggestions

Google Slides: Publish to the Web

You presentation can be published to the web for easy audience viewing:

• Decide how often you want slides to auto-advance
• Determine start/restart settings
• Access an embed code to embed the presentation on other webpages
• Require a login for people to view

Overview of Screencastify

Slides I totally stole from Fernando’s presentation!

Vicki Anderson

Instructional Technology Coach | Scottsdale, AZ

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Vicki@ReconTECHtualize.com

@MsVickiAnderson

bit.ly/ReconAZ