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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

Creating a website for Google Calendar


If your school district does not have an easy method for communicating with parents online, you may need to use Google Sites to create a website for parents to access information from your class. Google Sites is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) website editor that allows you to create websites without using code. While sending a link home with your students for a single calendar may be enough for your needs, Google Sites allows you to customize your Google Calendars, have multiple calendars visible on a single page, and make content from other Google Apps accessible to parents. Since this book focuses on Google Classroom, this section will provide steps to add the Google Classroom calendar to a Google Site. There is a plethora of other features found within Google Sites that are beyond the scope of this book. Use the following steps to create a Google Site:

  1. Unless modified by your school IT, the App Launcher will not have an icon for Google Sites...