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Teaching with Google Classroom - Second Edition

By : Michael Zhang
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Teaching with Google Classroom - Second Edition

By: Michael Zhang

Overview of this book

Google Classroom is designed to help you manage and deliver online and in-person courses in an interactive manner. Using Google Classroom saves time organizing and communicating information to students and parents. This updated second edition of Teaching with Google Classroom covers the modern features of Google Classroom that meet the current needs of online teaching. The book is written from the high-school perspective but is applicable to teachers and educators of all age groups. If you’re new to Google Classroom or an experienced user who wants to explore more advanced methods with Google Classroom, this book is for you. With hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you’ll learn how to create classes, add students to those classes, send announcements, and assign classwork. The book also demonstrates how to start an online discussion with your students. Later, you’ll discover how you can involve parents by inviting them to receive guardian emails and sharing Google Calendar with a URL. This will help them to view assignment deadlines and other important information. The book goes step by step through all the features available and examples of how best to use them to manage your classroom. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to do more with Google Classroom, managing your online or in-person school classes effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started
4
Section 2: The Basics
8
Section 3: Diving Deeper
13
Section 4: Going Digital

Summary

Assignment posts allow you to manage and consolidate your assignments in a single location. You neither have to keep track of which students have turned in their assignments or which ones have not; nor do you need to worry about misplacing assignments at home, in the classroom, or somewhere in between. In addition, you are no longer limited to text. Now you are able to attach any type of file, such as images and videos or links to websites or YouTube videos.

You are now able to create Assignment posts and know the ins and outs of adding content to the posts, how students turn in assignments, and where you can find all the assignments in Google Classroom and Google Drive. You have learned how to recognize when students unsubmit their assignments or turn them in late.

In the next two chapters, we will go through various methods of grading assignments in Google Classroom. We will focus on providing meaningful feedback and tools to speed up the grading process.