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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

Setting up Google Classroom on student devices


Like all of Google Apps, Google Classroom is accessible on any computer or mobile device connected to the Internet. However, not every student will access Google Classroom from the same type of device. Therefore, it is important that you can help guide your students in setting up Google Classroom.

The best time to invite students to Google Classroom is at the beginning of a term. During the first days of class, you will acclimatize your students to your classroom expectations and familiarize your students with the course syllabus. Setting up student devices can be easily integrated into this process so that students are ready to use Google Classroom at the start of the term, reducing the chance of technical difficulties later on.

Tip

Choosing the best time to invite students to Google Classroom

In general, I suggest that inviting students to Google Classroom and ensuring that all their devices are properly set up be done at the beginning of the...