More Google Classroom Stuff

A week has passed since our first training session. By now everyone should have had an opportunity to explore Google Classroom. I would encourage everyone to create a class, if you have not done so, just to get a feel for the teacher side of the application.

As a student in the Faculty Google Development class, I would encourage everyone to finish the two assignments. The first is to submit the worksheet answering the questions about the first training session and giving directions for the sessions to come. The second is to take the quiz that is included in the classroom assignment. Both of these give you as the teacher the opportunity to experience what your students will see next year. Your comments and suggestions will help us all use Google Classroom better.

Just a few notes on creating an assignment in Google Classroom. Look at the screenshot below:

In Yellow is the assignment title. Everyone of the documents your students hand in will contain this title name and their name.

In Green is the directions for the assignment. Be as specific as possible. Are they to read an attached document, view a video, explore a website, etc.? Are they to fill out the attached worksheet? Are they to create a new document or new sheet, or new presentation? Are they to add a file from their drives?

In Blue it states that every student will get a copy. Because this is the assignment edit mode (I clicked on the three dots in the assignment box), this lets me know that I gave every student their own copy to write on and hand in. (No more losing of worksheets!)

One clarification on assignments for students. See the screenshot below:

When a student is given an assignment and they open it up, if there is no document attached to the assignment, then the student is given two options: one to add a document of their own choosing - or to create a new document, or sheet, or presentation. When the red circled button is chosen, the document is automatically created with the assignment name and the student name appended to the document title. It is also immediately put in the right assignment folder. This would be preferred to adding a student's own document from their files.

One last encouragement for this week is to read the blog links in the right column of this blog.
Take a look especially at the three newest: 5 Potential Mistakes in Google Classroom, Grading with Zero or One, and 15 More things to do with Google Classroom.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM LINKS

• Google Slide Presentation
• Use of Google Classroom
• Classroom Help Center
• Classroom Intro Video
• 5 Potential Mistakes in Google Classroom
• Grading With Zero or One
• 15 More Things to do with Google Classroom
• 20 Things to do with Classroom
• 5 Problems Classroom Solves Now
• Create a Shared Folder

Next week I will share some of the suggestions of topics to cover in our next training session - Oct 20.