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A great document from Shake Up Learning with information a student needs to get started with Google Classroom.

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Stream: Post announcements for your students 

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Stream is the communication hub. Use it to make announcements.
It will push out to students if they receive notifications.

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TIP: Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

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As a guardian, you can get email summaries about your student’s activity in Classroom. Email summaries do not include grades. In email summaries, you can review:

Missing work

Upcoming work

Class activities

Guardian email summaries FAQ

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As a guardian, you can get email summaries about your student's activity in Classroom. Email summaries do not include grades. For grades, ask your student or contact the teacher.

In email summaries, you can review:

Missing work-Work not turned in when the summary was sent.

Upcoming work-Work that's due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or that's due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails).

Class activities-Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers.

If there's no activity to report or if a teacher turns off email notifications, you might not get an email summary.

Before you begin

You can get email summaries sent to any email address. However, to view or update email summary settings, you need a Google Account. With a Google Account, you can change the frequency of your emails, update your time zone, see the students connected to your account, and unsubscribe from email summaries. For details, go to Create a Google Account.

If you unsubscribe from email summaries, you're still connected to a student as long as you have a Google Account. Otherwise, unsubscribing removes you as a guardian.

You can only get summaries if your student is using Classroom with a G Suite account, which looks like student_name@school.edu. If you're not sure, ask the teacher or school administrator.

Get email summaries

To get email summaries of your student's work, you must accept an email invitation from a teacher or administrator. You have 120 days to accept an invitation before it expires. You can unsubscribe from summaries or remove yourself as a guardian at any time.

1. The teacher or administrator emails you an invitation to join your student's class.

2. In your email program, open your email invitation.

3. Click Accept.
If you're not the guardian, clickI'm Not The Guardian.

4. Click Accept to confirm.

When you accept an invitation, you and your student get an email confirmation.

Manage summaries

View or update your email summary settings

Create a Google Account in the email summary to access summary settings

1. In your email program, at the bottom of any email summary, click Settings.

2. On the email settings page, click Create New Account.

3. Fill in the requested information and submit.

Change the email address where you get summaries

Unsubscribe from email summaries

Warning: If you don't have a Google Account, this action removes you as a guardian from your student.

You can unsubscribe from email summaries at any time. At the bottom of any email summary, click Unsubscribe.

Remove yourself as a guardian

You can remove yourself as a student's guardian at any time. If you want to remain a guardian, but not get the summaries, you can Unsubscribe from email summaries (details above).

If you have a Google Account:

1. At the bottom of any email summary, click Settings.

2. Next to the student's name, click Delete Remove.

If you don't have a Google Account:

1. At the bottom of any email summary, click Unsubscribe.

2. Click Unsubscribe to confirm.

The student gets an email that you removed yourself from their account.

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As a guardian, you can get email summaries about your student's activity in Classroom. Email summaries do not include grades. For grades, ask your student or contact the teacher. In email summaries, you can review: Missing work-Work not turned in when the summary was sent.

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Stream: Students Post to the class stream

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If enabled, students can post to the class stream - e.g. ask questions about assignments and other students can answer.

DYK: If a post or comment is deleted. It will no longer be visible to other students. Teachers will still see it, but it will be grayed out.  Teachers can still reply to the student.

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If your teacher allows it, you can communicate with your class in the class stream in the following ways:

Post-Information or a question that you add to the class stream.
Example: When do we visit the museum?

Comment-A response to a post or comment.
Example: We go next Friday.

Reply-A response to a comment that mentions the person who made the comment.
Example: +commenter's name Thanks!

If you don't want to post in the class stream, you can send a private comment to your teacher on an assignment or question.

Note: If your teacher mutes you, you can't post, comment, or reply to comments. Only teachers can unmute a student.

Create a post

To ask a question or to share information with your teacher and classmates, create a post.

1. Click the class.

2. On the Stream page, click Share something with your class.
Note: If you don't see Share something with your class, your teacher turned off permissions to post.

3. Enter what you want to say and click Post.

Add an image, file, video, or link to your post

You can attach items to your post, such as images, files, Google Drive items, YouTube videos, or links.

1. Follow the steps above to create a post.

2. Click Add choose an option:

3. Click Post.
Note: If you see a message that you don't have permission to attach a file, click Copy. Classroom makes a copy of the file to attach to your post and saves the copy to the class Drive folder.

Delete a post

You can only delete your own posts.

1. Click the class.

2. On the post, click More Delete.

3. Click Delete to confirm.

Add a comment to a post

If your teacher allows, you can comment on other posts and comments. Teachers can delete comments.

Note: Comments are text only. You can't add pictures, links, or videos.

Reply to a comment

When you reply to a comment, the person you reply to is automatically mentioned. You can reply only to comments, not posts.

Delete a comment

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If your teacher allows it, you can communicate with your class in the class stream in the following ways: Post-Information or a question that you add to the class stream.Example: When do we visit the museum? Comment-A response to a post or comment.Example: We go next Friday.

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This post explains different ways you can see your upcoming assignments and announcements and what's late or missing:

On each class card, you can review up to 3 assignments that are due in the next week.

See all your work for a class

See work for all classes

Check for late or missing assignments

See work arranged by topic

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You have multiple ways to view your work for a class:

Quickly see upcoming work on the Classes page

See all your work for a class on the Your work page

Filter work by class on the To-do page

See the latest work on the Stream page

See work arranged by topic on the Classwork page

Quickly see upcoming work

On the Classes page, on a class card, you can see work due within a week. You'll see the title and due date for up to 3 items.

(Optional) To see details, click the title of the work.

See all your work for a class

You can see a list of all your work on the Your work page. You can check your grades, review assignments and due dates, and see any work that's late or missing. You can also filter your work by status: Assigned, Returned with grade, or Missing. If you want, you can see additional details, such as comments or attachments.

1. Choose an option:

On a class card, click Your work .

Click the class Classwork View your work.

2. (Optional) To see attachments, comments, or additional details for an assignment or question, click the title of the work View details.

3. (Optional) To filter your work, under Filters, click Assigned, Returned with grade, or Missing.

Filter work by class

On the To-do page, you can filter work by class, and see work that's:

To-do-Work assigned and not yet completed. You'll see the class and work titles grouped as missing, no due date, due today or within the week, or later.

Done-Work you completed and turned in. You'll see the status of the work-turned in or done late-and grades if the work is graded.

To see your work:

1. Click Menu To-do.

2. (Optional) To filter your work by class, click All classes and select a class.

3. Click a title.

4. (Optional) To see work you already submitted, click Done and select a title to see feedback.
If the work is graded, the grade is listed.

See the latest work and announcements

You can see the latest work and announcements on the Stream page. The most recent post is always at the top.

1. Click the class.

2. (Optional) To see any instructions or feedback, click the assignment or question.

See work arranged by topics

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Settings: Student permissions to post and comment on the Stream

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You can allow students to post and/or comment.  Note: you can “mute” individual students to stop them from posting & commenting.

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You can decide how students can post and comment in Classroom. You can set permissions by class or by student. If you allow posting or commenting, students can't edit their posts or comments, but they can delete them. Teachers can delete any post or comment.

Ways students can post in Classroom

Post-Information or a question on the class stream.
Example: When do we visit the museum?

Comment-A response to a post or comment.
Example: We go next Friday.

Reply-A response to a comment that mentions the person who made the comment.
Example: +commenter's name Thanks!

Even if you don't allow students to post or comment, they can still send you a private comment on an assignment or question.

Manage student permissions

Control who can post or comment

Mute a student

When you mute a student in your class, they can't post or comment in the class stream. Students won't see anything in Classroom to indicate that they are muted for the class. Muted students can still send you private comments.

Mute a student on the People page

1. Click the class.

2. Click People.

3. Next to the student that you want to mute, check the box.

4. Click Actions Mute.

5. Click Mute again to confirm.

Mute a student from their post or comment

1. Click the class.

2. Point to the post or comment from the student.

3. Click More Mute student name.

4. (Optional) To delete the comment, check the Also delete this comment box.

5. Click Mute.

Unmute a student

Unmuting a student lets them post or comment again if you allow it for the class.

Unmute a student on the People page

1. Click the class.

2. Click People.

3. Next to the student that you want to unmute, check the box.

4. Click Actions Unmute.

5. Click Unmute again to confirm.

Unmute a student from their post, comment, or reply to a post

1. Click the class.

2. Point to the post, comment, or reply from the student.

3. Click More Unmute student name.

4. Click Unmute again to confirm.

Delete a student post or comment

Show or hide deleted posts and comments

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You can decide how students can post and comment in Classroom. You can set permissions by class or by student. If you allow posting or commenting, students can't edit their posts or comments, but they can delete them. Teachers can delete any post or comment.

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Teachers can determine how "Classwork" is shown in the "Stream": Detailed, Condensed (default), and Hide.

TIP: If your students find it confusing to have classwork announced in the “Stream.", you can disable this feature to avoid confusion.

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Change your notification settings

You can edit your default notifications for both regular events and all-day events. You can also choose to be notified with device notifications, emails, or both.

Change your notification settings

Sound and vibrate settings

Change notifications for an individual event

You can change your notifications on either your mobile device or computer and your changes will sync.

1. Open the Google Calendar app .

2. Open the event.

3. Tap Edit .

4. Tap Add another notification.

5. Choose the type or timing of the notification and tap Done.

6. To delete the previous notification, tap Remove .

7. Tap Save.

Note: Your changes to notifications only apply to you. Other people invited to the event will get notifications based on their own settings.

Turn off notifications

Turn off all notifications

Turn off mobile notifications

If you turn off your mobile notifications, you'll still get notifications on your computer and by email.

1. Open the Google Calendar app .

2. In the top left, tap Menu .

3. At the bottom, tap Settings .

4. Tap General.

5. Turn "Notify on this device" off.

Turn off notifications for another calendar app

If you're getting duplicate notifications from a different calendar app on your device, follow these directions to turn off notifications for the other calendar app.

Turn off email notifications

Troubleshooting

Two notifications for the same event

You might get more than one notification for the same event if you have other calendar apps installed on your device. Use the steps below to turn off notifications for the other app.

Directions for your device may be a bit different, but here's the general idea:

1. Open the Settings app on your phone or tablet.

2. Find the Apps or Application manager section. You may need to scroll down or go to a different page in settings.

3. Select the calendar app you don't want notifications for.

4. Find the Notifications section and adjust your settings.

Not getting notifications

1. Make sure notifications are turned on for your calendar using the directions on this page.

2. Check that sync is working properly by going through the steps in the sync problems with the Google Calendar app page.

Note about flight events: By default, you won't get notifications for flight events that were added from Gmail.

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This is a great site that has a screen shot of each part of Google Classroom along with information on every feature on the page.

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Welcome to 50thingsbook.com. This site is created by Alice Keeler to provide a look at Google Classroom. Scroll down to review each section of Google Classroom. I have outlined the elements you will find for each part of the Google Classroom platform.

Google Classroom Website

Start with the Google Classroom website: classroom.google.com.

Creating or Joining a Class

Locate the plus icon in the upper right-hand corner after signing up. Teachers can join a class as a student or create a class.

The class tiles page allows the teacher or student to easily switch from one Google Classroom class to another.

1. Join or create a new class.

2. Click on class title to enter class.

3. Upcoming assignments.

4. Link to class folder in Google Drive.

5. Student view "Your Work."

6. More options: Rename class, Archive, Leave Class (student), Copy Class

7. Open Gradebook (not shown)

The Stream is the social hub of Google Classroom. This is where announcements can be made by the teacher. Students, if enabled, are able to share resources or ask questions. Any assignments created on the Classwork tab are announced on the Stream.

1. View the Stream.

2. Post an announcement to the Stream.

3. View assignment announced from the Classwork page.

4. View an announcement in the Stream.

5. Make a class comment.

6. View upcoming work.

7. Display the class code.

8. Expand out the class description.

9. Select a theme.

10. Switch to the Classwork page for creating and organizing assignments.

11. View list of students.

12. Settings Cog for Google Classroom

13. Google Classroom Menu

Student View

1. View the Stream.

2. View the Classwork page where assignments are organized.

3. View list of classmates.

4. Add a post to the Stream.

5. Upcoming assignments that will be due.
TIP: Click on "View all" to see a list of student work.

6. Announced assignment from the Classwork page.

7. Announcement.

8. Class comments. Add a comment.

As with Google Forms always head up to the Settings cog for each class you create.

On the Settings Cog for the class you're able to change the class title and set a description for the class.

General Section

At the bottom of the settings is a section for General Settings. We HIGHLY recommend you change the Classwork on the stream from "Show condensed notifications" to "Show attachments and details."

1. The class code is how students can join your class.

2. Enable or disable students from posting on the Stream.

3. Collapse, expand out, or disable assignments from posting on the Stream.

4. When an item is deleted from the Stream, show the teacher the deleted items.

5. Enabled, Google Classroom will email parents a summary of student progress in Classroom.

SAVE! Notice there is a save button in the upper right of the settings.

Attachments and Details

When enabled in the settings cog to be "Show attachments and details" the Stream shows the students and teacher additional information.

1. Teacher is able to view assignments announced to the Stream.

2. Teacher is able to see, without clicking, how many students have turned in an assignment.

3. Teacher is able to leave a class comment about the assignment.

Grading

The grading section in Google Classroom allows you to indicate how Classroom will handle points. The gradebook is VERY basic and most likely will not calculate your grades like you think it will. We highly recommend leaving OFF "Overall grade calculation." There is NO option for standards based grading.

1. Set no overall grade (recommended)

2. Set total points calculation.

3. Set weighted grading.

Student View of Attachments and Details

1. Student can see assignments announced to the Stream.

2. Student is able to, without clicking, view their status of an assignment.

3. Student is able to, without clicking, view the full set of directions for an assignment.

4. Student is able to ask a question about an assignment as a class comment.

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The Classwork tab is where teachers create assignments and organize them. The Classwork page is designed to use topics.

Note: There is now a GRADING tab at the top that is not displayed on this screenshot.

Updated tabs view at the top

1. Create assignments.

2. Filter for topics.

3. Assignments without a topic.

4. Topic headings.

5. Class Google Calendar.

6. Class Google Drive folder.

7. 3 Dots More menu for the topic.

8. Due Date and time.

9. Question assignment posted.

10. Materials posted.

Student View of Classwork

1. View list of assignments and student status on each assignment.

2. Filter Classwork by topic.

3. View class Google Calendar.

4. View Google Drive folder with student work for this class.

5. View assignments without a topic.

6. Topic headings.

7. Due date and time.

8. Posted question assignment.

9. Class materials.

10. 3 dots More menu to copy the link to the assignment or topic.

Possibly the most important part of Google Classroom is the Create button on the Classwork tab.

1. Create an assignment.

2. Create a Google Form with quiz settings in an assignment.

3. Ask the class a question as an assignment.

4. Post a non graded material.

5. Reuse an assignment from another class or a previous class that is archived.

6. Add a topic.

1. Add a co-teacher.

2. Invite a student via email.

3. Select all students.

4. Email all guardians.

5. Sort by first name.

6. Select an individual student

7. Actions: Email selected student(s). Remove selected student(s). Mute selected student(s) from posting to the class Stream.

On the Classwork page, click on the Create button and choose "Assignment."

Assignment Creation Screen

1. Create an assignment title.

2. Type directions for the assignment.

3. Add files from Google Drive, computer, YouTube, or link to a website.

4. Create a blank Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawing right in the assignment.

5. Click tiny triangle to select multiple classes to assign to.

6. Assign to a sub group of students.

7. Choose grading category, set up in the settings cog.

8. Assign points.

9. Choose a due date. Edit the due time.

10. Select the topic it is ORGANIZED under on the Classwork page.

11. Add a rubric.

12. By default files added are view only.

13. Click the tiny triangle to change from view to "Students can edit file" (Collaborate on the same file) or "Make a copy for each student."

14. Check student documents for plagiarism.

15. Assign assignment.

16. Click tiny triangle to change to save assignment as draft or schedule assignment.

Attachments

When attaching documents to an assignment there are 3 options for the document settings.

1. By default documents are a view only resource.

2. Collaboration option: Choosing "Students can edit file" allows all students to edit the same document.

3. 'Photocopy' option: Choosing "Make a copy for each student" duplicates the attached template and places a copy for each student in the "My work" section of the assignment page.

Posting

1. Assign a post to the Stream. Posts immediately.

2. Schedule a post. Set the date and time for the post to appear in the Stream.

3. Save draft of the post. Continue editing or allow a co-teacher to edit the post before assigning to the Stream.

More Options

On a post on the Classwork page, there is a more options (3 dots) icon in the assignment stripe.

1. More options icon.

2. Edit the post.
(Note: Assignments can not be edited to allow for "Make a copy for each student." This must be done before the assignment is assigned.)

3. Delete the post.

4. Copy link to the assignment.

5. Move the assignment up or down within the topic.
(Note: you can also DRAG assignments and topics around on the Classwork page.)

When students click on an assignment title in the Stream or click on the assignment on the Classwork page and choose "View assignment" they will see the full description of the assignment along with a section showing their work.

1. Assignment description.

2. Teacher linked assignment resources.

3. Student work section.

4. Student assignment status.

5. Student work linked. Student clicks on document title to launch in a new tab and edit.

6. Student can remove work from Google Classroom.

7. Add files to the assignment or create a blank Google Doc, Sheets, Slides or Drawing with the students name on it and add to the assignment.

8. Student can view comments conversation with teacher.

9. Student leaves a Private Comment only visible by the teacher.

10. Student adds a comment that is visible to classmates.

11. Assignment rubric

12. Expand rubric details

13. Students turn in work or mark as done if there are not any linked documents. When students submit work, ownership of the document is transferred to the teacher.

14. Due date

15. Return to Stream

Student View After Returned with Score

1. Student score, released after teacher returns the assignment.

2. Student can view or leave a class comment on the assignment.

3. Student status shows as "Graded."

4. Student can view status on rubric.

5. Student can expand on rubric for more details.

6. Student can click on work documents to launch in another tab to see in document comments the teacher left.

7. Student can resubmit the assignment.

8. Student can view teacher Private Comments feedback.

9. Student can continue Private Comments conversation with teacher.

Google Classroom organizes and works with Google Drive. Google Classroom creates a Classroom folder in each teacher and students Google Drive. Within the Classroom folder in Google Drive is a folder for each class. In the teachers class folder is a folder for each assignment that students have submitted work to.

1. Classroom folder.

2. Class folder.

3. Assignment folder.

4. Student work submitted to a specific assignment.

Google Classroom allows students to submit work. Locate student work by clicking on the assignment stripe either on the Stream or on the Classwork tab.

1. Click on assignment title to expand out the assignment details from the Classwork page.

2. Number of students who submitted. Click to filter and launch assignment assessment screen.

3. Number of students not submitted. Click to filter.

4. Number of students assignment returned to. Click to filter.

5. Click on "View Assignment" to launch the assignment assessment screen.

1. Select all students.

2. Sort students: Status, Last name, First name.

3. Select all students who have submitted.

4. Filter tiles: All, Turned in, Assigned, Graded.

5. Link to assignment folder in Google Drive.

6. Student assignment tiles. Click on document to launch.

7. Add numerical grade.

8. Return student work. Returns editing rights.

9. Email selected students.

10. Edit points possible.

11. Export student roster, grades, comments. Can be used to import to external gradebook.

12. View assignment instructions.

13. Clear filter to view all student work.

14. Click on class title to return to the Stream.

Individually Assessing a Student

1. Select individual students.

2. Open and review student work.

3. Assignment status. View submission history: Done, Returned, Resubmitted, Late.

4. Enter student score.

5. Add private feedback.

6. View individual student view of all Google Classroom assignments for this student.

7. Return work to release score.

8. Return to student tiles.

Click the 3 lines in the upper-left corner of Google Classroom to view the menu.

1. 3 Lines Menu

2. Class tiles (Home).

3. Classroom calendar. All class assignments displayed on one calendar.

4. List of assignments assigned for all classes.

5. Class where the user has teacher role.

6. List of work for student.

7. Class where the user has student role.

8. Archived Classes.

9. Settings: Change profile picture, set email notifications.

Make universal settings changes to Google Classroom.

1. Change your profile picture.

2. Disable ALL email notifications from all classes.

3. Expand to disable ALL email notifications from specific classes.

To-do

Choosing "To-do" under the menu provides a list of assignments. By default work from all classes is displayed. The work list for classes you teach only displays assignments you've assigned. The work list for classes you are enrolled in only displays assignments that have been assigned to you.

1. Filter by class.

2. Work listed is sorted by due date.

3. Click on assignment title to open that assignment.

4. Click on number Turned In to view students who have submitted.

5. Click on number Assigned to view students who are still working on the assignment.

6. Click on Returned to view students who have been graded and score returned.

7. More options dots allows to mark the assignment as reviewed, removing it from the "Reviewed" list.

8. Class the assignment is assigned to.

9. Reviewed assignments.

1. Reviewed assignments on the To-do page.

2. Filter by class.

3. Assignments are listed by due date.

4. 3 dots More options menu will allow you to un-review the assignment.

5. Click on assignment title to open the assignment.

Archiving

From the class tiles page, click on the 3 dots More options icon to archive the class. This will disallow students from submitting work or making comments in the class. The class is still available for reusing assignments.

Reuse assignments from archived classes.

Tip: Do NOT "Create new copies of all attachments."

In the bottom left-hand corner is a question mark icon to "Report issue or request feature" to the Google Classroom team. They read every piece of feedback and your opinion matters. What do you love about Google Classroom? Please be sure to tell them! Have an idea? Submit one idea at a time. The ideas are tagged and you will receive a notification if your idea is added to Google Classroom.

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You can email all students with the same work status. For example, you might want to send a reminder to the students who haven’t turned in an assignment. You can see and sort students in the following ways:

Turned in

Assigned

Graded

Returned

You can select any combination of students and groups in each assignment.

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You can email all students with the same work status. For example, you might want to send a reminder to the students who haven't turned in an assignment. You can see and sort students in the following ways:

Turned in-Students who submitted work or whose work you've graded but not returned.

Assigned-Students who didn't submit work or whose work you returned without grading.

Graded-Students whose work you graded and returned.

Returned-Students whose work you returned (for ungraded assignments only).

You can select any combination of students and groups in each assignment.

1. Click the class the assignment or question.
On the item, you see work status sorted by number of students.

2. Click a work status.

3. On the left, choose an option:

To email students who submitted work or whose work is graded but not returned, check the Turned in box.

To email students who didn't submit work or whose work you haven't graded but returned, check the Assigned box.

To email students whose work you graded and returned, check the Graded box.

To email students whose work you returned (ungraded assignments only), check the Returned box.

4. (Optional) To deselect any student or group, uncheck the box.

5. In the top-left corner, click Email .

6. Enter your message and click Send.

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Teach sgudents how to bookmark frequently used pages such as:

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Let Chrome remember your favorite and frequently visited websites.

When you sync to Chrome, you get saved items, like bookmarks and passwords, on all your devices.

Add a bookmark

1. On your computer, open Chrome.

2. Go to the site you want to visit again in the future.

3. To the right of the address bar, click Star .

Find a bookmark

Important: The easiest way to open a bookmark is to click on it in the Bookmarks bar. To turn the bookmarks bar on or off, click More Bookmarks Show bookmarks bar.

If you don't have the bookmarks bar turned on or your bookmark isn't there, there are 3 ways to find your bookmarks.
From the address bar

1. On your computer, open Chrome.

2. In the address bar, enter @bookmarks.

3. Press tab or space. You can also click Search bookmarks in the suggestions.

4. Enter keywords for the bookmark you want.

5. Select your bookmark from the list.

From the menu

1. On your computer, open Chrome.

2. At the top right, click More Bookmarks.

3. Click a bookmark.

From the navigation panel

1. At the top right of your browser, click Side panel .

2. Click the Down arrow Bookmarks.

Organize your bookmarks

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Let Chrome remember your favorite and frequently visited websites. When you sync to Chrome, you get saved items, like bookmarks and passwords, on all your devices.

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Set up guardian email summaries

This video does a nice job showing both the teacher and guardian interface for this feature.

TIP: Students can be added as a guardian to get a summary email.

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TIP: Create a Topic for Past Assignments, drag it to the bottom of your Classwork page. Once an assignment is complete, or you are no longer accepting work, move it to this topic.

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Wondering how to organize Google Classroom? This post will give you the six most common organizational strategies for the Classwork page and topics.

Many teachers are struggling with finding the best way to organize Google Classroom assignments on the Classwork page.

Deciding what topics to create and how to organize your assignments on this page has been trial and error. What works for one teacher, doesn't work for others.

I decided to put this question to the Shake Up Learning Facebook group and find out what teachers are doing with this new setup.

I did notice some trends, so I thought it would be useful to share these in a blog post.

This post is about the different topics teachers are creating to organize their Classwork page in the way that works for them.

Below are 6 Ways to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom.

Create and Organize Topics in Classwork Page

The heart of the new Classwork page is TOPICS. Topics allow you to group assignments into categories.

By default, new topics are added to the bottom of the classwork page, so this requires moving topics up and down to suit your needs. This seems to be one of the biggest troubles for teachers using the new Classwork page. Rearranging topics and assignments is going to be part of all of these options unless you want students scrolling to the bottom of the page.

We also have the ability to add materials to the Classwork page. This is typically those resources you share with students that are not necessarily associated with one assignment. These are things that students need to reference frequently like the Class Syllabus, Class Rules, Teacher website link, etc.

After working with and talking to hundreds of teachers, I've discovered the five most common ways to organize assignments in Google Classroom.

6 Ways to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

1. Organize By Units or Modules

To organize by unit of study, teachers create topics for each unit and put all of the assignments for that particular unit under that topic (like the screenshot below). I believe this method was Google's original intention with the redesign.

2. Organize By Week

Many teachers are creating a new topic for each week, either naming them "Week #1," or naming something like, "Week of Sept 10th-14th." I don't even want to think about what this looks like after several weeks of school, but if this works for you-go for it!

3. Organize By Type of Assignment

In this method, teachers organize assignments by the type of work, like "Daily Work," "Projects," "Tests," etc. Keep in mind the organization is for both you and your students. Will students understand the work types? Remember to keep it student-friendly for the age group you teach.

4. Organize By Subject Areas (best for elementary)

Organizing by subject area seems to be the most logical for elementary teachers who teach multiple subjects.

5. Organize By Adding "Today" Topic

This one is usually combined with one of the above methods. I've seen this suggestion from many teachers, including fellow blogger, Alice Keeler. The idea is to create a special topic named, "Today," where you manually move each item that you want students to focus on that day. Then, move the "Today" topic to the top of the page so it is front and center for your students.

6. Organize by Learning Target

Thank you to Layla Gregory for sharing this in the Shake Up Learning Community. As a fan of standards-based grading, this organization makes perfect sense!

Layla assigns numbers and letters to each learning target and includes that in the topic and assignment.

Even if you are not using standards-based grading, this is a great way to help students make the connection between the assignment and the goal of the assignment.

In my post, How to Package Your Digital Assignments, I give you ten things to include in your assignment package, including the learning goal! (See infographic below.)

Tip: Disable Assignment Alerts in Stream

(Thanks to Shannon Oliver for sharing this!)

One feature that seems to drive some teachers crazy is that the assignments are also announced in the "Stream." If this is a thorn in your side, you can disable this feature to avoid confusion.

To disable this feature, go to your class and click on the settings icon near the top-right.

Scroll down to "General."

Next to "Classwork on the stream," click the drop down and select, "Hide notifications."

Tip: Create a Topic for Past Assignments

One trend I'm noticing is that some teachers like to move old assignments out. Unfortunately, you cannot have assignments disappear after they have been completed.

Create a topic called "Past Assignments," or something that makes sense for you and your students to understand. Drag this topic to the bottom of your Classwork page. Once an assignment is complete, or you are no longer accepting work, move it to this topic.

Of course, this means that you may be giving up some of the organization above, so do what works for you.

What Works for You

The bottom-line here is to find what works for you and your students. Every teacher is different. I'm sure that many teachers have already made decisions about how they will organize differently next semester or next year. We will learn together.

I know this is just scratching the surface, but I hope it helps give you new ideas on how to organize your assignments in Google Classroom.

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On the Classwork page, you can group assignments, questions, and class materials under topics.

Think of topics as modules or units, and the assignments or materials as individual lessons. You can reorder the posts under a topic, and rearrange topics to follow your curriculum.

You don't have to use topics for posts. If you don't assign a topic, the post shows at the top of the Classwork page.

Create a topic

1. Click the class Classwork.

2. At the top, click Create Topic.

3. Enter the topic name and click Add.

Students only see topics with published posts.

Add a topic to existing assignments or questions

Add a topic to class materials

Filter by topic

You can see all your posts for a topic and quickly move between topics with the topic filters.

1. In a class, click Classwork.

2. To see all your posts for a topic, at the left, click a topic name.

3. To return to all your topics, at the left, click All topics.

Reorder posts under a topic

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TIP: Give each assignment a dedicated Number.  This makes it easier search, find, and reference assignments.

DYK: the keyboard shortcut control/command + F will help you find words or numbers on a page?

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Online discussions can encourage back-and-forth exchanges that probe more deeply into a topic and engage students in thinking collaboratively. Many students who are not comfortable sharing their thoughts orally in class find it easier to contribute when they have some time to compose their ideas and a bit of distance from their classmates.

TIP:  It is helpful to provide clear instructions for how students are expected to participate in an online discussion, including expectations for responding to others.

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Engaging students in substantive, meaningful discussions that demand critical and creative thinking can be challenging in any instructional context. When the magic happens, however, such conversations can be the stuff of teachers' most memorable classroom moments. Well-framed, authentic, respectful academic discussions provide opportunities for students to build effective arguments backed with evidence, make connections between someone else's experiences and their own, or explain their understanding of a complex phenomenon using academic language.

Learning Benefits of Online Discussions

While face-to-face discussions can work well to support the development of important speaking skills and cultivate positive classroom culture in many circumstances, they also have limitations. For example, face-to-face conversations are linear, meaning that only one person can speak at a time. Often, in the spirit of fairness, teachers try to ensure that many students have a chance to contribute to a group discussion, which can have the effect of discouraging back-and-forth exchanges that probe more deeply into a topic and engage students in thinking collaboratively.

Fortunately, threaded online discussions accommodate that sort of back-and-forth exchange in a way that does not interfere with ensuring equitable participation. In fact, there is no limit to student responses, and students can reply to each other as much as they would like, so multiple conversation threads can develop in response to a single, generative prompt. In addition, some of the social barriers to participating in a face-to-face discussion are removed in an online discussion. Thus, many students who are not comfortable sharing their thoughts orally in class find it easier to contribute when they have some time to compose their ideas and a bit of distance from their classmates. Of course, just as with classroom discussions, it is important to establish guidelines for participating in online discussions, such as being respectful, and to hold students accountable to those guidelines.

Setting Up Online Discussions in Google Classroom

Google Classroom allows teachers to set up online discussions very easily. When viewing a Listenwise story, after clicking "Share Audio" and then "Share link to Google Classroom," choose a class, and select "Ask question" when prompted to "Choose action." Add one of the discussion questions from a Listenwise story (or create a new one), and then provide clear instructions to accompany the link to the story. Make sure that "students can reply to each other" and "students can edit answer" are both selected, so students can engage in dialogue after they have shared their initial response and fix any errors once their responses are posted. As with any assignment, add a due date, and then click on "Ask." It is also possible to do this from Google Classroom by choosing the "Question" option when creating an assignment. You might, for example, ask students to listen to the audio story and then discuss the question, " Can tolerance be taught? "

Moderating Online Discussions

It is helpful to provide clear instructions for how students are expected to participate in an online discussion, including expectations for responding to others. Ideally, the prompt should be open-ended and require that students contribute their own ideas and interact with each other constructively. Listenwise discussion questions are designed to generate dialogue about an audio story by engaging students in higher order thinking about important ideas and connecting those stories to their own experiences. To that end, it is helpful to give students room to respond to each other before entering the discussion. When doing so, it can be useful to model the types of interactions expected of students, such as asking clarifying or probing questions, prompting elaboration, or offering counter-arguments or corroborating examples. It is important not to dominate the discussion so that students feel ownership and freedom to express themselves genuinely.

While the Google Classroom "Question" discussions are not completely threaded, they do indent at the first reply to a student's response, which helps to track exchanges.

Assessing Online Discussion Participation

Another benefit of online discussions is that they create artifacts of student work, unlike face-to-face discussions (unless they are recorded). Student participation can be assessed using a rubric such as this one. Online discussions can provide helpful formative assessments, offering a window into student understanding that can inform subsequent instruction. They can also be used as an intermediary step in the writing process, allowing students to work through their ideas in conversation in preparation for an independent writing assignment. For example, students might discuss a topic such as "Can tolerance be taught?" online and then build upon their contributions and develop them into an argumentative essay.

If you have used Listenwise stories in online discussions with Google Classroom, please let us know in the comments what you did and how it went!

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TIP: To clean-up the Classworks page - create a single source (e.g Bitmoji Virtual Classroom) that links to all the materials and information students will need:

Syllabus

Schedule

Class Rules

RUP/Media Agreement

Back-to-school night info

FAQ

Frequently Used Materials

Then share it with students under Materials in Classwork.

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Save time and reuse an announcement, assignment, or question from a class - even if it's archived.

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You can reuse an announcement, assignment, or question from a class. When you reuse a post, you can:

Use it in the original class or in a different class.

Make copies of any attachments, including rubrics, or add new ones.

Modify the post before you publish it.

Note: You can reuse assignments with rubrics on the web or mobile versions of Classroom. You can create, edit, or add rubrics only on the web.

1. Click the class and choose an option:

2. Click the class that has the post you want to reuse.

3. Click the post.

4. (Optional) If you're copying this post to a different class, and don't want to link multiple classes to the same attachments, check the Create new copies of all attachments box. This creates new documents in the Drive folder of the class you are reusing this post in.

5. Click Reuse.

6. (Optional) Change any information. Add or delete any attachments.
Notes:

If the post was originally sent to individual students, the post defaults to all students when you reuse it, but you can select individual students again if you want. You can't post to individual students across multiple classes. Posts to multiple classes are shared with all students in the classes.

If your reused post has a rubric, you can edit the rubric in your new assignment. Your edits don't affect the rubric in the original assignment. For instructions, go to Edit an assignment's rubric.

7. Choose an option:

Save the post for later-Next to Assign, Ask, or Post, click the Down arrow Save draft.

Reuse an assignment-Click Assign.

Reuse a question-Click Ask.

Reuse an announcement-Click Post.

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You can see a list of an individual student’s assignments, grades, and missing work all in one place. You can filter the list by status—turned in, returned with grade, or missing. You can also email it to the student and their guardian.

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You can see a list of an individual student's assignments, grades, and missing work all in one place. You can filter the list by status-turned in, returned with grade, or missing. You can also email it to the student and their guardian.

See the list of a student's work and its status

1. Click the class.

2. At the top, click People and then the student's name.
Note: You can only view the work of a student who has joined the class.

3. (Optional) To see details or answers, click the work View Details.

4. (Optional) To filter the student's work, under Filters, click Turned in, Returned with grade, or Missing.

Email the list of a student's work

You can email the list to the student. You can also email it to the student's guardian if email summaries for guardians are turned on. For more details, see Set up guardian email summaries.

1. Click the class and choose an option:

At the top, click People and then the student's name.

At the top, click Classwork and then click an assignment or question and on the left, click the student's name. Then, on the right, click their name again.

2. Click Email .

3. Next to Student, click the Down arrow and select Student, Guardians, or Student and guardians.

4. (Optional) Enter a message.

5. Check the Include student work summary box and click Send.

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By default, you get email notifications for some activities, such as when someone comments on your post or your teacher returns work. Students and teachers can change their notification settings at any time.

TIP: If you use Classroom on a mobile device, you need to update the settings on your device as well.

TIP: Tell students what you expect from them and suggest notification settings.

TIP: Teachers might want to turn email notifications "off" for when a student marks an assignment as “done.”

TIP: Specials teachers can be added to grade level classes and then they can turn notifications off.

TIP: Turn on cellphone notifications using the Classroom Mobile App.

Manage Google Classroom Notifications Like a Boss

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This article is for teachers and students. Guardians, go to About guardian email summaries.

By default, you get email notifications for some activities, such as when someone comments on your post or your teacher returns work. Students and teachers can change their notification settings at any time. If you use Classroom on a mobile device, you need to update the settings on your device as well.

Turn email notifications on or off

You can decide if you want to get email notifications about updates to your classes.

1. At the top, click Menu .

2. Scroll down and click Settings.

3. Next to Receive email notifications, click the switch Off or On .

Customize notifications

You can choose the notifications that you get for all of your classes. For example, you can turn off invitation notifications for all classes but keep notifications for assignments on.

1. At the top, click Menu .

2. Scroll down and click Settings.

3. Next to Receive email notifications, click the switch On .

4. Next to each type of notification that you want to get, click the switch On .
Refer to the tables below for a description of each notification.

Teacher notifications

Someone comments on your post

Comments on your posts

Someone mentions you in a post or comment

Comments that mention you

A student sends you a private comment

Private comments on work

A student submits work after the due date

Late submissions of student work

A student resubmits work

Resubmissions of student work

A teacher invites you to teach a course as a co-teacher

Invitations to co-teach classes

A scheduled post published or failed to post

Scheduled post published or failed

Student notifications

Someone comments on your post

Comments on your posts

Someone mentions you in a post or comment

Comments that mention you

A teacher sends you a private comment

Private comments on work

A teacher creates an assignment, question, or announcement

Work and other posts from teachers

A teacher grades or returns work

Returned work and grades from your teachers

A teacher invites you to a new class

Invitations to join classes as a student

You have unsubmitted work that's due within 24 hours

Due-date reminders for your work

Turn all notifications on or off for a class

Read notifications

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Classroom Mobile App - Write on Assignments

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On the Classroom mobile app, students can draw and write on assignments with the note tool. On these types of files:

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Microsoft® Office® documents

JPEG or GIF

Adobe® PDF®

NOTE: It turns all documents into PDFs.

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On the Classroom mobile app, you can draw and write on your assignments with the note tool. You can underline words, highlight text, draw shapes, and leave notes. For example, you might highlight a sentence, color a map, sketch a plant cell, or show your work on a math problem.

You can draw and write notes on these types of files:

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Microsoft® Office® documents

JPEG or GIF

Adobe® PDF®

Note: Currently, writing and drawing on work is available only on Android and iOS mobile devices. This feature isn't available on computers.

Write and save notes

1. Tap Classroom the class.

2. Open the assignment for the file you want to write on.

3. To open a file, choose an option:

To open a file that is already attached to the assignment, tap it.

To open a new file, tap Add attachment, upload the file, then tap it.

4. To open the note tool, in the top-right corner, tap Edit .

5. Make any notes or drawings.
(Read more about colors and pen sizes below.)

6. To save your notes, choose one:

On an Android device, click More Save.

On an iOS device, tap Save.

7. (Optional) To discard your changes, choose one:

On an Android device, tap Back Discard.

On an iOS device, tap Back Discard.

How notes are saved

If the original file was

It's saved as

Google Docs file

Separate PDF

Microsoft Office document

Separate PDF

JPEG or PNG image file

Edited file that replaces original

PDF

Edited file that replaces original

Choose a tool

You can find all tools at the bottom of the app screen.

Change a tool's color or size

The write, mark, and highlight tools are available in different sizes and colors.

1. To see color and size options, double-tap Write , Mark , or Highlight .

2. To see more colors, tap the Up arrow .

3. Tap a color or point size to use it.

Add a text note

1. Tap Add text .

2. Drag your finger to create a text field.

3. Enter your message.

4. (Optional) Customize your text:

To make the text larger, select it and pinch 2 fingers apart.

To make the text smaller, select it and pinch 2 fingers together.

To resize the text box, tap a corner and drag it.

Resize or move a note or image

You can resize or move a new note or image. Before you can select a saved note or image to resize or move it, change it first.

1. Add a text note or image.

2. Tap Select and tap the note or image.

3. Pinch 2 fingers apart or together on the note or image to resize it.

4. Drag the note or image to move it.

Zoom in or out on a note

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After you create a class, you can see or change your class details. Class details include:

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Your class video meeting link

Your class code

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After you create a class, you can see or change your class details. Class details include:

Basic information, such as the class name, section, and room number

Settings for posts to your Stream page

Your class video meeting link

Your class code

You can change class details in your Settings page.

Turn off, reset, or copy the class code

When you create a class, Classroom automatically creates a class code. If students have trouble with the class code, you can reset it. If you don't want new students to join your class, you can disable the code. You can enable it any time.

Note: When you reset or enable a class code, Classroom creates a new code for the class. The previous code no longer works.

1. Click the class Settings .

2. Under General, next to the class code, click the Down arrow and choose an option:

To display the code, click Display.

To copy the code, click Copy.

To reset the code, click Reset.

To turn the code off or on, click Disable orEnable.

3. Click Save.

See a class video meeting link

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This article is for teachers. After you create a class, you can see or change your class details. Class details include: Basic information, such as the class name, section, and room number Settings for posts to your Stream page Your class video meeting link Your class code You can change class details in your Settings page.

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Each class has a Google Calendar.  Assignments automatically show up on the calendar.  If you don’t assign a “due time”, the assignment will show up as an “all-day event”

TIP: Teachers should add Zoom meetings into Calendars and then invite students to join the meeting.

TIP: Teach students how to use the calendar features like:

turning individual calendars on and off

different views (day, week, month)

setting notification alerts

TIP: Add the class schedule to the class calendar.

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To easily help you remember events, you can get notifications on your phone, computer, or by email. You can change your notification settings for a single event, or all your events.

Change your notification settings

You can get event notifications in:

An email

A desktop notification that will show outside of your web browsers

An alert that will only show inside your Google Calendar window.

Tip: Google Calendar will always send notification emails to users who don't use Google Calendar whenever an event they are invited to is created, updated, or deleted.

Turn notifications on or off

For all events

Important: You need to have Google Calendar open in your browser, like Chrome and Safari, to change settings. You might be asked to let calendar.google.com show notifications.

You can change notification preferences for all events on your Google Calendar.

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.

2. In the top right, click Settings Settings.

3. On the left, click General Event settings.

4. Under "Event settings," you can choose to:

Turn notifications on or off: Click Notifications, and select how you want to get them.

Get notified only for Yes or Maybe responses: Click Automatically add invitations Yes, but don't send event notifications unless I have responded "Yes" or "Maybe."

For specific calendars

For single events

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.

2. Click the event Edit event .

3. Next to Notifications :

To edit your notifications, choose how you'd like to be notified. Select how long in advance you'd like to get the alert. You can choose from minutes, hours, days, and weeks.
Tip: you can choose to be notified by email, an alert on your desktop, or both.

To add another type of notification, click Add notification

To turn off a type of notification, click Remove

4. At the top of the page, click Save.

"Browser doesn't support notifications" error

This error means you need to update your web browser to get notices for events.

Change event notifications

1. Open Google Calendar.

2. Click the event.

3. Click Edit

4. Next to Notifications , choose how you'd like to be notified.

5. At the top of the page, click Save.

Note: When you make changes, they don't affect anyone else who's invited to the event.

Didn't get a notification

1. First, make sure notifications are turned on for your calendar using the steps above.

2. Check that you've chosen to show notifications in your browser's permission settings. If not, turn on desktop notifications.

In Chrome

1. Open Chrome.

2. At the top right, click More Settings.

3. At the bottom of the page click Advanced .

4. Under "Privacy and security," click Site Settings.

5. Click Notifications.

6. Next to "Allow," click Add.

7. Enter calendar.google.com click Add.

In other browsers

1. Open your web browser.

2. Go to your browser's notification preferences.

3. Add permissions for calendar.google.com.

Check your browser's support site for specific instructions.

Note: If you delegate your calendar to someone in your organization, you won't get a notification when that person changes an event on your calendar.

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To easily help you remember events, you can get notifications on your phone, computer, or by email. You can change your notification settings for a single event, or all your events. You can get event notifications in: An email A desktop notification that will show outside of your web browsers An alert that will only show inside your Google Calendar window.

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You can get a quick overview of work you assigned across all your classes on the To-Review page. You can see which work is turned in, graded or not graded, or returned. You can also mark work reviewed.

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This article is for teachers. This feature is available only on computer.

You can get a quick overview of work you assigned across all your classes on the To-do page. You can see which work is turned in, graded or not graded, or returned. You can also mark work reviewed.

You can filter the list to see work by class. You can also see the number of students who submitted or didn't submit work and whose work you graded and returned.

See work across all classes

1. Click Menu To-do.

2. (Optional) To filter your work by class, click All classes and select a class.

3. Click a title to view submissions.

Mark work as reviewed

1. Click Menu To-do.

2. (Optional) To filter your work by class, click All classes and select a class.

3. Next to the work, click More Mark as reviewed.
After you mark work as reviewed, you can see it in the Reviewed list.

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This blog post from Shake Up Learning explores ways to give meaningful feedback.

TIP: Getting students to read and take action on feedback can be a challenge. Try this, delay the final grade until they have responded or made revisions based on feedback.

DYK: you can send a private comment on an assignment even before the student turns it in?

TIP: Keyboard shortcut for inserting a comment:

PC = Control + Alt + m

Mac = ⌘ + Option + m

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Google Classroom + Meaningful Feedback = Winning Combination!

In this post, we will explore ways to give meaningful feedback in Google Classroom.

Feedback is an essential piece of the learning process that often gets overlooked or watered down.

As teachers, it can be difficult to find ways to not only give feedback to every student, but to make it meaningful to students and something that is actionable.

Susan M. Brookhart, author of How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students, says, "Good feedback contains information a student can use. That means, first, that the student has to be able to hear and understand it. A student can't hear something that's beyond his comprehension, nor can a student hear something if she's not listening or if she feels like it's useless to listen.

The most useful feedback focuses on the qualities of student work or the processes or strategies used to do the work. Feedback that draws students' attention to their self-regulation strategies or their abilities as learners is potent if students hear it in a way that makes them realize they will get results by expending effort and attention."

Let that sink in for a moment.

This is not just about finding errors for students but using feedback as a strategy for learning.

Feedback should be a loop, not a one-and-done task. It's a conversation between you and your students.

QUICK TIP: Getting students to read and take action on feedback can be a challenge. Try this, delay the final grade until they have responded or made revisions based on feedback.

Get the details on this, "Delay the Grade," strategy in this post from Cult of Pedagogy.

G Suite tools give us many opportunities to communicate with students, guide them toward the learning targets, and give meaningful feedback.

Google Classroom in particular offers many ways for teachers and students to continue the feedback loop.

I asked members of the Shake Up Learning Community to share their favorite ways to use Google Classroom for meaningful feedback and here's what they shared.

Below are some ideas to help you learn how to take advantage of the functionality of Google Classroom to give meaningful feedback to your students.

4 Ways to Give Meaningful Feedback in Google Classroom

To be clear, for the purposes of this post, we are going to focus on the Google Classroom application and not on other G Suite tools that also offer ways to leave feedback and comments.

1. Private Comments

Private comments is one of the best features of Google Classroom.

Since these are private, they are only viewable by you and the individual student. Consider this a private conversation between you and your students.

To learn more about the different types of comments in Classroom, see this previous post: Google Classroom Comments: All You Need to Know!

To add a private comment from the Student Work page:

1. From the Classwork tab, click on the assignment for which you would like to give feedback.

2. Click on "View Assignment."

3. Select the Student from the roster on the left.

4. Toward the bottom of the right-hand panel, you will see "Add Private Comment."

5. Click to type and add your private comment for your student.

Note: you can also leave private comments in the grading workflow which is covered in number two.

2. The Google Classroom Grading Tool

The Google Classroom Grading Tool gives teachers a workflow for evaluating student work, leaving feedback, grading, and returning student work.

To access the grading tool,

1. From the Classwork page, select the assignment and click on "View Assignment."

2. Click on the student's name in the left-hand roster.

3. Click on the file a student submitted and you should see the grading tool similar to what you see in the image below.

Here you can toggle through multiple student's work, leave frequently used comments from your comment bank, as well as leave private comments.

To learn more about the grading tool and other features, watch the FREE webinar: 5 Things to Know About the New Google Classroom, where I go into depth with the newer features of Google Classroom.

3. Canned Comments from Your Personal Comment Bank

Another great feature of the grading tool mentioned above is the ability to create your own comment bank of frequently used comments and feedback for students.

1. Click on "Comment Bank," from the right-hand sidebar.

2. Enter the comment you wish to save and click, "Add."

The comments you save will be saved to your account and accessible through the Google Classroom grading tool to use with any assignment.

4. Annotate Using Google Classroom on Mobile (iOS or Android)

Many users don't know that there are some additional Google Classroom features that only work on mobile (for now at least).

One such feature is the ability to draw and annotate on documents.

In the mobile version of Google Classroom, you can annotate on assignments, meaning you can draw, markup, create, etc.

That annotation is then saved and can be turned in, or sent to the student as feedback. Of course, now add the power of the stylus to this application and you've got yourself a winning combination.

Click here to learn how this works in the mobile app.

This is a great way to give students feedback on all kinds of assignments!

How do you give meaningful feedback for your students? Please share in the comments below!

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You can create, reuse, share, view, and grade rubrics for individual assignments. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If a rubric is scored, students see their scores when you return their assignments.

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Note: You might notice slight visual differences between tablets and phones.

Rubric overview

For your reference, this image shows a finished rubric with the parts labelled.

Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment

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See an assignment's rubric

Import or export a rubric

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Edit an assignment's rubric

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When you turn on originality reports, you and your students can check work for authenticity. Originality reports use Google Search to compare a student’s work against billions of webpages and millions of books. Originality reports link to the detected webpages and flag uncited text.

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To make originality reports available to you and your students, turn on originality reports when you create the assignment. When you do, your student can run up to 3 reports on their assignment before submitting it.

Note: If you have a G Suite for Education account, you can turn on originality reports for 3 assignments per class. To get unlimited originality reports, ask your admin to upgrade to G Suite Enterprise for Education.

1. Click the class

Classwork.

2. Click Create Assignment.

3. Next to Originality reports, check the box.

You can turn on originality reports after students submit work. However, if you turn on originality reports after a student's work is submitted, the student can't run a report until you return their work.

To let students run a report, return their work and allow them to resubmit their assignment.

Step 1: Edit the assignment to turn on originality reports

1. Click the class

Classwork.

2. Next to Originality reports, check the box.

Step 2: Run an originality report on submitted work

1. Click the class

Classwork.

2. Click the assignment
View assignment
the student's file.
The file opens in the grading tool.

3. Under the student's assignment, click Check originality.

You can turn on originality reports for 3 assignments per class with a G Suite for Education account.

When you turn on originality reports for an assignment, students can run 3 reports on that assignment before submitting their work. You can't see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to improve their work before submitting the assignment.

When students turn in their work, Classroom automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs file, visible only to you. If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Classroom runs another originality report for the teacher.

Originality reports are viewable for 45 days. After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.

To run another originality report, open the student's submission in the grading tool. Under the filename, click Check originality.

Next: View an originality report

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Google Classroom Cleanup Tips for the End of the Year

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TIP:  Copy your class so that you can use it next year. It makes all your assignments "drafts" that can easily be edited.

Blog post from Shakeup Learning.

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It's that time of year again! As many teachers begin to wrap up the end of the school year and prepare for summer, let's make sure everything is clean and organized!

I've put together some Google Classroom cleanup tips for the end of the year!

Google Classroom and Google Drive can get quite messy throughout the school year, and you want to get everything cleaned up and set up for success in the next school year.

Now that even more teachers are using Google Classroom and planning for whatever the new normal is in the fall, it's even more important to take the time to reflect, cleanup, and plan!

Let's go all Marie Kondo and tidy up this mess!

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Quick Tip of the Week

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Below are six tips to help you clean up Google Classroom and prepare for the next school year.

Tip #1: Reflect on the Year

First things first, before you get all happy with the delete and archive buttons, I suggest you take the time to reflect so that you have a good idea of the files you want to keep, the lessons you want to improve and repeat, and those lessons and activities that totally bombed!

Reflection is a critical part of the lesson plan cycle.

Ideally, you want to reflect immediately following the lesson or activity.

However, teaching all day, lunch duty, bus duty, parent meetings, and staff development (among a million other things) doesn't always give you the time you need for reflection. And given the fact that so many teachers just learned how to teach from home, there's even more reason to reflect on the experience.

So take a breath, take some time to look through your Google Classroom assignments, their coordinating folders in Google Drive, and that pesky calendar.

What went well? What do you want to do differently next year?

Think about what went well PRE-COVID, and what went well during COVID-19 school closures. We need to be prepared for all possibilities.

Did you give too much or too little time for projects? How engaged were students at home?

Make some notes, digital or paper, before you get into cleaning mode!

Something else I want to encourage you to think about during this reflection time is how you used Google Classroom and G Suite tools in your classroom.

Did you use digital tools to substitute for what you did on paper? Or did you go further?

Did you take advantage of the collaborative features of G Suite? If so, how, and how can you improve? If not, why not?

If you have been uploading your PDF worksheets and Microsoft Office files into Google Classroom, did it transform the learning in any way? How might you move forward next year and take advantage of all Google has to offer?

If you want to learn more about using G Suite in your classroom, consider taking an online course, or even getting Google Certified!

Tips #2: Check Your "To Do" List in Google Classroom

Open up your "To Do" list in Google Classroom to see what work you need to review, grade, or return.

You can view all your classes at once, or use the drop down at the top to filter this list by class.

Depending on how much clean up you have to do, you can approach this in a few different ways.

You can open up each assignment individually if you have several assignments left to grade and return. (Remember, the using the Control key on your keyboard when you click will open the page in a new window.)

You can also click on the three dots to "mark as reviewed." Marking as reviewed is just a way of moving assignments to the "reviewed" tab so you can clearly see what is left to do. Students will not be affected.

Tip #3: Clean Up Folders

One of the beautiful things about using Google Classroom is how it automagically connects to Google Drive and creates folders for each of your assignments.

Well, not that class has ended, you need to decide what to do with all of those folders and files.

Your earlier reflection should help you decide how to handle these files.

FIRST - DO NOT DELETE THE CLASSROOM FOLDER!

I repeat, DO NOT delete the Classroom folder from your Drive!

This folder is automatically created when you create your first class in Classroom and can be difficult to get back so leave it alone.

What you can do is move or delete the sub-folders and files that are contained in that Classroom folder.

This will be a personal preference kind of thing.

You can delete if you REALLY want to, but keep in mind that you have UNLIMITED storage in your Drive so you can be a pack rat if you want.

Personally, I like to curate exemplary work into a new folder to reference or share later.

I also like to create master folders for each school year, like "2018-2019 Classes." You can create a folder like this in your Drive, or even as a sub-folder within the Classroom folder. Then just click and drag to move things around.

Tip #4: What to Do with All Those Calendars!

Another fantastic feature of Google Classroom is the way it creates a Google Calendar for each of your classes and adds due dates!

But when you go to Google Calendar, your list of calendars is cluttered with classes that you don't teach anymore.

If this drives you crazy, you can delete those calendars from your list.

However, consider printing your class calendar to a PDF, or take a screenshot so you can reference your due dates when planning next year. (Tip: choose the schedule view so you can see the dates in a list.)

Tip #5: Set Up a Class Template for Next Year

Did you know you can copy an entire class in Google Classroom?

1. Open your Google Calendar and go to the setting icon near the top-right and click "Settings."

2. Scroll down until you see your list of calendars on the left and click on the calendar you wish to delete.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "Delete," and then confirm you want to permanently delete.

When you do so, it will copy almost everything and save your assignments as drafts so you can easily reschedule.

This is a huge time-saver for the beginning of school, so why not create your ideal class template while everything is still fresh on the brain?

My advice is to make a copy of your class and edit it to be your "template," that you can reuse year after year.

I have step-by-step directions for setting up your own class template in this post.

See also: How to Create a Reusable Class Template in Google Classroom

Tip #6: Archive Classes

Last, but certainly not least, you can archive your classes in Google Classroom.

This tip is last in the list because you want to make sure you have taken care of all of the things mentioned above before you are ready to archive.

To archive a class, go to your Google Classroom homepage and click on the three dots on the class card, then choose "Archive."

You will receive a quick warning about what this means.

Click "Archive" to confirm.

Archival is great because it moves the class out of your list, but it can always be accessed or restored if you need it.

Go to your main menu (three lines) and scroll down to the bottom and select "Archive" to see your archived classes. You can also copy, restore, or delete them from here.

What would you add to this list?

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Make your own headers or challenge your students.

TIP: Different headers for each class makes it easier to differentiate.

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How to Create a Google Classroom Header Image

Google Classroom is a great application for Google using educators and students to manage assignments, communicate and collaborate, and go paperless! Google has made great strides in updating this application based on the feedback submitted by educators like you. Google Classroom is only going to get better! So if you haven't taken the time to learn this great application, now is the time.

One feature of Google Classroom is the ability to customize the theme and header (see example below). You can choose from ready-made themes and header images from Google's gallery, or you can upload your own image to customize the look and feel of all of your classes. Adding your own image usually requires more than just finding a picture stored on your drive. Google Classroom is responsive, which means the size and shape of the header change with the size of your screen on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. For this reason, you will notice most of Google's headers have a pattern which works well for this type of responsive application. Faces and clipart can get distorted in the header, but I have found a way that works for me using Google Drawings to create the header image.

Google Drawings is the unsung hero of the Google Drive suite of applications. It is a very powerful tool for creation. See this infographic for more details: 10 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom. Google Drawings allows you to create an image in any size that you want, so it was an easy option for creating a custom Google Classroom header. Below are step-by-step directions to help you create a custom header for your Google Classroom classes.

Create a Google Classroom Custom Header with Google Drawings

1. Go to drawings.google.com to open a new drawing.

2. Click on the title (top left) and rename.

3. Go to File>Page Setup

4. Here comes the fun part! Create your image!

Suggestion: right-click on the image and choose a background color to get started. (I chose a white background.)

5. Now you can insert any images or text that you want, like your school logo, your avatar, or other images that help define your class. (My example was for a Google Academy that I taught in Commerce ISD. Kudos to Heather Kilgore for creating the logo!)

Tip: I find that it's best to use a series or pattern of small images so that it doesn't look distorted. If you choose something large, it doesn't resize very well.

6. When you are done creating your image, go to File>Download as> choose .png or .jpeg to download the image to your computer. (Note: Jpeg is good if for real photographs, .png is good for clip art.)

7. Now, upload your new header into Google Classroom.

Go to Google Classroom and choose the class where you wish to update the header.

Near the bottom-right of the current image header, select "Upload photo." Navigate to where you downloaded your new header, or drag and drop to upload.

Move and crop the image if you like to get it exactly where you want it. Then click, "Select class theme" at the bottom of the window.

Voila! You have a new customized header! (Note: the theme colors are not customizable, but Google Classroom tries to somewhat mimic the colors in your image. I'm hoping for the ability to choose custom colors in the future!)

Tip: Choosing a different header, even just with minor changes will help you students see at a glance which class they are in and help keep them on track.

Learn all about the new updates to Google Classroom and take your skills to the next level. This course will give you everything you need to get started using Google Classroom and best practices to help you make the most of this tool.

Perfect for beginner to intermediate skill levels! Consider this your video guide to Google Classroom!
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DYK: Google Classroom Uses Google Drive?

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Google Classroom automatically sets up a folder called Classroom in Google Drive.  And it sets up a folder for every class you create.
It also sets up a subfolder for every assignment that has a Google file attached.

TIP:  Don't make any changes to Google Drive directly.

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Google Drive Folder in Google Classroom

Google Classroom is Google Drive management. When you log into Google Classroom for the first time a folder is created in your Google Drive called "Classroom." Within that folder is a folder created per class.

Class Folder

Each teacher and each student has their own Classroom folder in Google Drive and their own class folder in Google Drive. These are not shared. Teachers do not have access to the student class folder. Students do not have access to the teacher class folder.

Not File Sharing

Adding files to the class folder does not share the file. The class folder in Google Drive is a regular folder in Google Drive. It is private. For the student, any assignments in Google Classroom, "the attachments" are automatically placed in both the student's class folder and the teacher's class folder. Same file, different folders. If the student creates a document in the class folder, the teacher does not have access to the file unless the student adds that file to a Google Classroom assignment. If the teacher creates class resources in the class folder, the students are not able to access that file unless the teacher adds it as a resource in Google Classroom.

Finding the Class Folder

Obviously, you can find the class folder in Google Drive. Locate the Classroom folder in Drive and there is a subfolder within the Classroom folder that contains the class folder.

Within Classroom, both students and teachers can find their individual folder for that class as a folder icon on the class tiles page. In the bottom right hand corner of each class tile is the Google Drive folder icon.

Classwork Page

Both students and teachers are able to locate their Google Drive folder for a particular class by going to the Classwork page. Above the assignments on the Classwork page on the right hand side is the icon for Google Calendar and the icon for Google Drive.

Students Find Their Work

All student work for a particular class is in Google Drive in the class folder. Encourage students to click on the folder icon to see a virtual notebook of all of their documents. Students can sort the folder by "Last modified" to see documents that the teacher has provided feedback on recently. Using the Google Drive folder icon is an efficient way to find work they have been working on quickly. For example, an ongoing journal can be quickly accessed through Google Drive.

Assignment Folders

For teachers only, there is a folder per assignment. Each folder contains the work of each student for that assignment. The documents are the exact same document that each student has in their drive.

Paradigm shift, Google Classroom does not make copies of documents, instead, it shares the same document. The student and the teacher have equal access to the document in real time. However, the student does not have access to the teacher's assignment folder... obviously, the student should not have access to the other students work.

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Google Classroom: Find the Google Drive Folder - Teacher Tech

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Google Classroom is Google Drive management. When you log into Google Classroom for the first time a folder is created in your Google Drive called "Classroom." Within that folder is a folder created per class. Each teacher and each student has their own Classroom folder in Google Drive and their own class folder in Google Drive.

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Have you ever needed to have two windows open, side-by-side?  Maybe you want to review the student assignment and enter data in the Bobcat Den grade book simultaneously.  This Chrome extension splits a window into two at the selected tab.

Then use Tab Glue to glue them back together.

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This extension splits a window into two at the selected tab.

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TIP: Share to Classroom Chrome Extension

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TIP: Share to Classroom Chrome Extension

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This Chrome extension allows you to push webpages to any of your Classroom classes, so they open instantly on your students' computers. You can also post announcements, create assignments, or save webpages to post to Classroom later.

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Switch between teacher and student views

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Switch between teacher and student views

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Have you ever wanted to switch between your account and a student account, so you can see what your students see in Google Classroom, Seesaw or Book Creator? You can do that by logging into your teacher account in one browser (e.g. Chrome) and a student account in another browser (e.g. Safari).  At ACDS we have a generic student account that you can use. You can also setup run two Google Profiles.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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What is the most effective way to share schedules?  Using Google Calendar?  Printed?

Are there any issues with grading between Google Classroom and Bobcat Den (MS)?

What is the best way to communicate with parents (Guardian? Bobcat Den? Google Mailing Lists?)

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You can tag collaborators when you comment in G Suite (Docs, Classroom, etc.) so they receive an email notification.