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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

Creating multiple choice questions


Question posts can either be short answer or they can be multiple choice. To switch between short answer, which is the default option, and multiple choice, use the first drop-down menu in the question options, as shown here:

Each question can only have a single multiple choice question. The  Chapter 7Google Forms for Multiple Choice and Fill-in-the-blank Assignments shows how to create assignment posts with several multiple choice questions. After selecting the multiple choice option, radio buttons will appear below the question options. To add more multiple choice options, click on Add option in the list:

Multiple choice questions only have one option: Students can see class summary. The results will display on the post after the student has submitted their responses. An example of this option, which is enabled by default, is shown here:

In the preceding screenshot, the darker grey sections on the left visually represent the number of times the choice...