Now that you have your student files, it's time to grade them. Marking assignments is one of the necessary evils for teachers. There is never time during the day to mark all the assignments students turn in. Therefore, we teachers also have constant homework, where we are marking assignments at home. Thankfully, Google Classroom and other Google Apps help reduce the time it takes to grade and return assignments. (Not to mention, reducing your environmental impact by reducing paper use within your classroom.) This chapter will focus on grading written assignments, whereas the next chapter will focus on creating and grading multiple choice, numeric response, and fill-in-the-blank type questions. Since written assignments are turned in from Google Docs, providing feedback will use features found within the Google Docs app to enhance the grading process. These features include comments, suggesting mode, and revision history. Furthermore, third...
Teaching with Google Classroom
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Teaching with Google Classroom
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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
Free Chapter
Getting to Know Google Classroom
Inviting Students to Their Virtual Classroom
Sending Your First Announcement
Starting an Online Discussion with Questions
Handing out and Taking in Assignments
Grading Written Assignments in a Flash
Google Forms for Multiple Choice and Fill-in-the-blank Assignments
Keeping Parents in the Loop
Customizing to Your Subject
Customer Reviews