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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about the grading and assignment feedback features within Google Classroom. Then you enhanced those features with the commenting and suggesting features found within Google Docs. Next, you learned about Google Docs revision history, to view previous snapshots of a Google Docs document.

The latter half of the chapter focused on a set of third-party apps from New Visions for Public Schools that pulled assignments from Google Classroom and allowed them to be graded with a rubric. You learned how to install Doctopus and Goobric and create a Goobric-compatible rubric. Finally, you explored the features of Goobric such as audio feedback and auto-advancing.

Goobric is not without its quirks. Because it uses scripting, formulas created with Google Doc's formula editor often appear offset. Furthermore, if there are multiple Google Docs documents attached to an assignment, Doctopus will include each file into the Google Sheet, which can be cumbersome if students...