Google Classroom
Class Settings
In this presentation, you will learn how to...
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Edit General Settings
Find Class Settings
Edit Class Details
Find Class Settings
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To access your class settings, find the Gear icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Class Details Settings
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Edit your class details here, including change your class name, write a class description, or change other details you set when you created the class.
General SEttings: Class Code
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Class code setting
Display your class code larger, for example, while sharing your screen in a Zoom meeting with students
Copy your code (in order to paste it). You may want to paste it into your syllabus, for example.
Reset your code to get a new one. (This is not recommended once you’ve already given your code to students).
Disable the code.
One reason you may do this, is if you want to add your students yourself.
�This may be helpful for younger students, as well as to avoid your code getting out to others, leading to unwanted additions to the class.
(Adding students manually is covered in another training)
General SEttings: Stream
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Stream settings
(Control who can post and comment on your class stream)
Students can post and comment. Be aware: this is the default setting.
If you don’t want students to post on your stream, be sure to change this setting.
Students can only comment.
This may be useful if you want your students to be able to publicly ask questions about announcements, etc.
Only teachers can post or comment.
This is generally the setting most teachers will choose for their streams.
It ensures students will see what you deem as the most important announcements.
General SEttings: Classwork on the Stream
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Classwork on the stream setting
(Control how much information about assignments is posted on your stream automatically)
Note: If you choose to show Classwork notifications on the stream in any manner, your announcements may get pushed down in the stream and need to be put back at the top.
Show attachments and details.
This will create large posts on the stream containing detailed information about an assignment when you create it.
Show condensed notifications. (This is the default setting)
Will make a short announcement that a new assignment has been posted.
Hide notifications.
Students will see assignment information on the Classwork page, but no notifications on the stream unless you post them.
A note about Classwork on the stream settings:
This setting is about determining how much information you want on your main class page.
Some people prefer to have only important announcements posted by the teacher on the stream. Others like to have all assignment information posted on the stream.
General SEttings: Show Deleted Items
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Show deleted items setting
When you or a student posts something and deletes it on Classroom (a post, an assignment, etc), it disappears.
�Unless you have this setting turned on.
When this setting is turned on, you can see what has been deleted.
This may come in handy if a student posts something inappropriate. You can delete the post so others won’t see it.
When you go to your principal to show him/her what the student posted, you can turn on this setting to see the deleted inappropriate post.
Note: Even if/when you turn this setting on, only teachers of the class will be able to see the deleted post/assignment.
Students cannot see deleted items, even if the setting is turned on.
General SEttings: Guardian Summaries
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Guardian summaries setting
(Turn on or off guardian summaries for this class)
Guardian summaries are sent to parents and show summaries of assignments, announcements, and other class activity.
See the next slide for an example
When you turn on Guardian summaries, the message below will pop up.
If you leave the box checked, all of your classes will have Guardian summaries turned on by default.
If you uncheck the box, you can turn guardian summaries on in each individual class you have by following these same steps and unchecking the box in each of those classes.
A Word About Guardian SUmmaries
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This is a sample Guardian Summary.
When a guardian signs up for the summaries, they can choose how frequently they receive them. They will also receive a summary from all classes their student is in where the teachers have the Guardian summaries setting (previous slide) turned on.
Summaries include:
If you choose to leave the Guardian summaries setting turned off, your class assignments and activity will not be available to guardians in the summaries they receive.
Some Google Classes may not need summaries because they don’t assign work to students, such as those created for school clubs or activities. If you have a class like that, you can individually turn Guardian summaries on in the classes you do assign work in (as pointed out in the previous slide).
General SEttings: Google Meet
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Google Meet setting
Create a “Meet link” you and your students can use to have face-to-face conversations and learning online
When you create a Meet link, your link appears here. When you click on this, it gives the option to copy the link (to paste into a document or email, for example), or to reset the link.
When you turn on the “Visible to students” setting, your Meet link appears on your Stream and Classwork pages for students to use.
You may want to leave the setting turned off, then turn it on to make it available for students for a whole class Google meet for instruction.
Grading Settings: Overall Grade Calculation
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Grading Settings:
Overall grade calculation
Unfortunately, Google Classroom does not currently have an option to grade based on standards.
You can try this teacher’s solution for standards-based grading on Classroom.
No overall grade
You can choose this if you don’t plan to use Google Classroom to do any grading
Total points
Choose this for straightforward adding up of points to get a total grade.
Weighted by category
You can choose to grade with weights based on categories, such as “Homework” or “Quizzes.”
Categories are added below.
Grading Settings: Overall Grade Calculation
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Grading Settings:
Show overall grade to students
Choose whether your students can see their total, overall grade on Classroom.
Turning on the setting can be useful, especially if you are doing all of your assignments and grading through Classroom. This can be an easy way for students to see their overall grade without logging into Tyler.
Turning off the setting may be appropriate if you are choosing not to use Google Classroom for all assignments and graded work. An overall grade in Classroom would not be accurate if there are some grades you’ve done outside of Classroom and only added into Tyler.
Note: After choosing this setting, if your “Overall grade calculation” setting is set to No overall grade or Total points, you can save your settings. If you chose Weighted by category, you’ll want to continue to the next slide for the last grading setting.
Grading Settings: Overall Grade Calculation
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Grading Settings:
Grade categories
Input and edit grade categories if you’ve chosen “Weighted by category” for the Overall grade calculation setting.
The total weight of all grade categories must add up to 100 before you will be able to save your settings.
If you didn’t choose to use grade categories, you can save your settings without adding/editing categories.
Congrats!!
Once you finish those steps, you have managed your Class Settings!
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