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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

Grading a question


The Question post allows teachers to track which students have responded to the question, as well as assign grades to those responses. Use the following steps to assign a grade:

  1. Click on the title of the question:

  2. In the menu, click on the 100 points drop-down menu to change how many points the question is worth:

    Grading the question will be easier if you decide how many points the question is worth before you begin grading. Google Classroom will notify already graded students when the total points of a question or assignment, changes and it does not give an option to adjust already graded questions to the new point total. Therefore, you will have to go back and change all the previously graded questions to the equivalent value for the new total:

    For the Question and Assignment post, the total points must be a numeric value. In Canada, many primary schools use a letter grade system to assess students. If your system is similar, a solution is to relate letter grades to...