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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to create a Google Form, assign it in Google Classroom, and grade it with the Google Sheet's Flubaroo add-on. Using all these apps to enhance Google Classroom shows how the apps in the GAFE suite interact with each other to provide a powerful tool for you. Not only does Google Forms allow you to create and assign multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, you now have tips to shuffle question order, password protects your forms, and ensure students only submit the form once.

With Google Forms, your Google Classroom assignments can include non-linear question orders, multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding, immediate feedback, and automatic grading.

What began as a chapter to save time on grading multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions also provides tools to expand the types of assignments you can give your students. Google Classroom no longer only manages assignments, but it can also manage quizzes and exams.

With...