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Teaching with Google Classroom

By : Michael Zhang
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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

Chapter 9. Customizing to Your Subject

Welcome to Google Classroom. Here you will explore how to set up Google Classroom and deploy it effectively in your classroom....

You're caught, aren't you?

If you have flipped to this chapter first, you are not alone. Even if you have been using Google Classroom and GAFE, I encourage you to start at the beginning. Jumping in near the end of the book means missing out on valuable tips and tricks on using Google Classroom and implementing it with other Google Apps. This chapter covers some extra tools to help with subject-specific needs. These will be more like finishing touches similar to icing flowers on a cake. Therefore, starting at this chapter may not provide you with the resources to effectively implement Google Classroom in your classes.

This chapter's format deviates from the rest of the book as it will showcase and reference some of the apps that I or my colleagues have used in our classes. Subjects that often cannot implement Google Classroom...