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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

How students receive announcements


By default, students will receive e-mail notifications when you post an announcement (or any other type of post) on the Stream:

These e-mails contain the title and link to the post in Google Classroom. Another method whereby students receive notifications is through the Google Classroom app on their smart device:

Disabling e-mail notifications

If you or your students do not wish to receive e-mail notifications whenever a co-teacher or student posts in the Stream, you can disable e-mail notifications from within Google Classroom. Here are the steps:

  1. In Google Classroom, click on the menu () button in the classes banner.
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the menu and click on the settings () icon.
  3. Uncheck Send email notifications:

    Another method to get to the settings screen is to click on the link found at the bottom of an e-mail notification, as shown in the following screenshot: