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Teaching with Google Classroom

By : Michael Zhang
Book Image

Teaching with Google Classroom

By: Michael Zhang

Overview of this book

Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it’s already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It’s not just a manual, you’ll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Teaching with Google Classroom
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Accessing classes from Google Classroom's homepage


Google Classroom's homepage displays all classes of which you are a teacher or student. The classes are arranged like cards on the page. The next time you go to Google Classroom, you will first arrive at the homepage, where you can select the desired class, as shown here:

Classes in which you are enrolled as a student will have the image of the teacher on the class card.

Currently, you cannot rearrange the order in which the classes appear. Google Classroom arranges the classes in the order in which they were created.

When you are in a class, you can switch to a different class by clicking on the menu icon in the top- left corner of the banner:

The menu will appear from where you can select the desired class:

The menu is separated into the classes that you are teaching and the classes in which you are enrolled as a student. In addition, you can return to the Google Classroom homepage, view the Google Classroom calendar, access archived classes, and change the settings from this menu.