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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

Providing feedback with private messages and comments


Usually, teachers are encouraged to provide meaningful feedback in addition to a grade so that students can receive guidance to improve their work. You can provide written feedback through private messages within the Assignment post, and comments within the submitted Google Docs document.

Private messages are the feedback for the entire assignment. They are similar to writing a couple of sentences at the end of an essay or a lab report. To add a private message, follow these instructions:

  1. On the assignment page, click on the student's name in the Student list:

  2. Below the list of attachments, click on the Add private comment... section:

  3. Add your private message and then click on the POST button:

Adding comments to student files

While you can add private comments to the assignment, follow these steps to add comments to the content of a Google Docs document. This method of feedback allows you to highlight specific parts of the assignment to...