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Kay Schmalen

School Improvement/ Technology Consultant CRAEA

AEA Supporting Online Learning Webinar Series

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How do I Effectively Use Google Classroom?

Emily HIll

PK-12 Innovation Specialist

Clear Lake Community School District

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Organization is KEY!

  • Topics- allow teachers to organize the posts. When creating an announcement, assignment, or question, you can assign a topic and these topics act as a category for each post, which allows to be organized efficiently.
  • Due Dates- For assignments, by default there is no due date so if you want it due on a particular date, be sure you change it.
  • Dashboard/Cards- your rostered classes or classes in which you are a student
  • To Do/To Review- Students- all activities that have been assigned will appear in order of due date. Teachers- It helps you know what you need to grade and return to your students

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Topics

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Take Advantage of Calendar- Due Dates

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Dashboard

List Assignments are are due today or soon

Link to Gradebook

(Teachers) or “Your Work” (Students)

Link to Google Drive Folder

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To-Do (Student) To-Review (Teacher)List

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Communication Tips

  • Parent Corner - include a note written specifically for parents.
  • Guardian Feature- guardians can get email summaries about student's activity in Classroom
  • Email Students or Guardians- send an email directly from Google Classroom
  • Email Work Summary - a summary like a paper progress report. Can be sent to guardians and students- Alice Keeler’s Blog Post
  • Stream- keep to announcements only, hide notifications.

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Guardian Feature

Invite Guardians

Summaries are automatically sent

Daily or Weekly Option

Can have more than one

Once guardian is invited, they receive summaries from all classes students are enrolled in (unless the teacher turns it off for that class).

Set up classroom ahead of time- when conferring with parents, confirm email and invite them during the conference

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Email Students

From People Page OR an Assignment’s Page OR a Student’s Page

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Email Student Work Summary

Google Classroom: Email Student Work Summary

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Mute Notifications

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Using with “Littles”

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AEA Webinar Series

Next Webinar:

How do I Create an Emotionally and Intellectually Safe Online Learning Environment?

August 6, 2pm-3pm

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