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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 Google Form


Since Google Forms is not as well known as apps such as Gmail or Google Calendar, it may not be immediately visible in the App Launcher. To create a Google Form, follow these instructions:

  1. In the App Launcher, click on the More section at the bottom:

  2. Click on the Google Forms icon:

  3. If there is still no Google Forms app icon, open a new tab and type forms.google.com into the address bar.

  4. Click on the Blank template to create a new Google Form:

  5. Google Forms has a recent update to Google's Material Design interface. This chapter will use screenshots from the new Google Forms look. Therefore, if you see a banner with Try the new Google Forms, click on the banner to launch the new Google Forms app:

  6. To name the Google Form, click on Untitled Form in the top-left corner and type in the name. This will also change the name of the form. If necessary, you can click on the form title to change the title afterwards:

  7. Optionally, you can add a description to the Google Form...