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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

Managing students in your classroom


The full class list of all students can be found in the STUDENTS section of your class. You will be able to make changes to the students within your class as well as send e-mails to individual students or to the entire class.

Manually inviting students to your classroom

When students are added to your class late in the term or a student is having difficulties joining with the class code, you can manually invite students to your classes. You should use this method as a last resort because manually adding several dozen students to a class is tedious and time-consuming. Follow these instructions to manually invite a student to your class:

Note

While writing this book, mobile devices were unable to add or remove students from the class. It was still possible to send e-mails to individual students from the mobile app.

  1. In Google Classroom, click on the STUDENTS section in the menu and then click on the INVITE button:

  2. The dialog box will show My Contacts by default...