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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

File ownership for assignments


Just like with physical assignments, ownership of the student's assignment transfers to the teacher when students turn in assignments. Therefore, if you view a student's file in Google Drive, turned in assignments will display me for the owner instead of the student's name:

While seemingly inconsequential, students have limited privileges with turned in files. For example, they will not see any changes or comments to the assignment until it is returned to them.

If students unsubmit their assignment after you have graded it but before you have returned it, the student will be able to see your changes or comments, but will not see the grade. Grades are only visible to the students when the assignment is returned.

Another limitation for students is that they are only able to view the turned in files and cannot make any changes unless they unsubmit the assignment. Thus, having ownership transfer to you until you grade and return the assignment ensures that there...