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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

Sharing Google Calendar with a URL


Sharing the Google Calendar of a class is an alternative to the guardian e-mails if they are unavailable within your district. If your school district already has a web page or an intranet that connects the school with the parents, this method may be the simplest one to deploy. Since parents already have a website to go for school information, it is easy for them to find the link to your calendar on the school website. Before we include that link, we must make the calendars associated with your classroom public by following these steps:

  1. In Google Classroom, navigate to the ABOUT section:

  2. In the classroom details card, click on Open in Google Calendar:

  3. On the left sidebar, you will see a list of calendars. Hover your mouse over the calendar with the same name as your Google Classroom class and click on the drop-down menu:

    If you do not see a list of calendars under the My Calendars heading, click on the sideways triangle beside the heading as shown here...