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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

Inviting parents to receive guardian e-mails


Guardian e-mails provide parents within daily or weekly e-mails summaries of upcoming assignment deadlines, announcements, and highlights outstanding assignments not yet turned in on Google Classroom. Parents must have a Google account in order to receive Google Classroom summaries. (The automated e-mail to the parent will provide instructions if the e-mail is not part of a Google account.) To enable and invite parents to receive guardian e-mails, use the following steps:

  1. Click on the STUDENTS tab in the horizontal navigation of the class:

     

  2. In the sidebar, click on the switch in the box titled GUARDIAN EMAIL SUMMARIES:

  3. A dialog box will appear requesting confirmation. It will also have a checkbox to activate guardian e-mails in all of the other classes:

  4. In the student list, click on INVITE GUARDIANS and enter the e-mail address of the guardian. Optionally, click on ADD ANOTHER if more than one guardian address is available. Once all e-mail addresses...