Google Classroom Basics
These two tutorials fit well with the Google Apps tutorials from my Summer PD page. See those for the basics of using Google Drive, Docs, Slides and Sites.
Google Classroom offers a great way to get announcements and assignments to your students. All work that you send out and collect from them will be stored in Google Drive, but Classroom handles all that for you.
The first tutorial below covers:
And the second one gives you a quick (3 minutes) look at assignments from the student's point of view. You can show it to them so they know how to access, create or upload files they need to turn in to you.
Here's a tipsheet that sums up the content of the second video. This is important so students understand not to use the Share button when working in Classroom.
Google Classroom offers a great way to get announcements and assignments to your students. All work that you send out and collect from them will be stored in Google Drive, but Classroom handles all that for you.
The first tutorial below covers:
- An overview of Google Classroom
- Signing in as a teacher (1:15)
- Creating a class (2:35)
- Creating an assignment (3:30)
- Getting the Join code for students (5:18)
- How files are created and stored in your Drive (5:40)
- A look at how students add your class, access assignments and turn them in (6:27)
- Some limitations of Google Classroom (8:52)
And the second one gives you a quick (3 minutes) look at assignments from the student's point of view. You can show it to them so they know how to access, create or upload files they need to turn in to you.
Here's a tipsheet that sums up the content of the second video. This is important so students understand not to use the Share button when working in Classroom.
