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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

Using a rubric to grade assignments


When grading long documents such as essays and lab reports, you may use a rubric to provide feedback to your students. However, Google Classroom does not have features that allow you to assign grades in this manner. Third-parties such as New Visions for Public Schools have developed add-ons and extensions that allow you to grade assignments in Google Classroom. In order to mark efficiently with rubrics in Google Docs, you will need to set up the Chrome extension Goobric and the Google Sheets add-on Doctopus. While there are several steps in the initial setup for Goobric and Doctopus, once they are installed, the grading process goes smoothly. A Spanish teacher at my school used Goobric and Doctopus to grade over 700 student assignments within a semester. She claimed that this system saved her over 100 hours of marking than previous semesters. Goobric allows you to see your rubric and the student assignment within a single screen. Furthermore, when you...