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I did not know about Emojicopy.com.  I love that idea!  From a parent perspective, I love the fact that she emphasized cleaning up the classwork and stream and organizing it by week.  It can become very overwhelming for students and parents when it is not organized.

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I had no idea you could post ahead and I really like the option to add emojis. Drag and drop to organize my lessons was a game changer!

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Cleaning up my stream will be great!! I want to play with the schedule option so I can work ahead. I also liked learning about the emojis!!! -Brittany Lea

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I'm excited about learning how to choose in my settings what the stream tab will look like so it is not so messy.  Also, I like the option of choosing when the assignment will post.

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We really loved the Emojis and symbols to show important assignments, or show which ones are going to be graded. We also were excited to see the different ways to organize topics for assignments. It was great to see that students can see missing assignments in the "Upcoming Assignments."

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My son just told me you can right click on a sentence and under the drop down box there is an option for "emojis and symbols" as well. :p

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I just scrolled up and noticed you shared the command+control+space bar to add emojis! Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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I just realized I had to login for you to see my name. Sorry! The above two posts were from me.

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I think using Emojis will be so fun and want to use this with my students next year as well as showing them/parents how to use "View All" to check assignments themselves instead of messaging me constantly to see what they already submitted.

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I liked that she said you can "hide notifications" and clean up the Stream. I hated that my Stream had every single thing I posted because I felt like it looked very overwhelming. I also liked the idea of organizing by week.

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Very informative! I really liked the idea of using emojis and color coding for my  topics. I think this will make it much easier for my parents and students to follow.

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Learning to organize like that is very helpful.

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Loved the idea of being able to color code for days of the week, and use of the emojis.

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I liked how she organized her assignments with the days/dates into the title. I also liked how she limited the students ability to comment on the stream.

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I'm so glad to know how to clean up the stream! I will definitely be using the option to hide notifications so it isn't so overwhelming. When I figured out the schedule option was there, life became much easier! I was able to work ahead and not worry about getting on every night to post for the next day.   - J. King

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The emojis were super cool and I really liked the idea of color coding the different days!

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I liked how she used emojis to help organize the students assignments. This is very helpful for the visual learners and the ELL students. It was helpful to see how you can set the stream to just show the written post instead of showing all the classwork and written post. You would just have to teach the students to look in the classwork tab to find their assignments. The grouping is very helpful to organize everything. The better it is organized the easier it is for the students to find what they need for the day or the assignment.

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I loved being able to organize my Google Classroom. Before we really got deep into virtual learning, I would post all of my assignments as classwork. I noticed that once I figured out how to upload assignments, Zoom links, and schedules by topics, my kids were able to navigate my Google Classroom much easier.

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I loved how she used emojis to organize. I think that students (and parents and teachers) would love the visual.

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Great information.  I was unaware I could group my assignments by a topic/by the week.  This is great for organizing by the week.  I will definitely use this next time.

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I had mine organized in topics by day but I like organizing by weeks better.

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The video was very informative and I loved the tips on organization! It gave me a lot of ideas about how to organize my resources for my students/parents. I think emojis and the color coding will make things easier for the kids to navigate.

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Lots of good information! My favorite take away was using the emojis to color code the assignments for each day, or pictures for topics. I think this would be an easier way for K students to understand what they are doing. I think the colors and pictures will make it more fun than just seeing a bunch of words.

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I liked organizing assignments by week and the emojis.

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I am happy to learn organization tips! I am hopeful this will make accessing the classwork easier for parents and students.  I am going to use emojis in my classroom next year!

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I have yet to use Google Classrooms due to the nature of my students. After watching the videos I can see using it to provide direct instruction to parents to support their children through tasks.

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The biggest thing that I will utilize in my google classroom next year will be organizing assignments by the day of the week and then in addition to that, since  I am teaching first graders, I will add emojis to represent each section and post. I think that this will help them so much to see the colors and emojis to represent different assignments!

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I organized my assignments by entering a Google Slide each day. I then had a slide for each subject and it made the assignment in one place and it was super easy to navigate.

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I like her color coding idea! I already had my google classroom organized by weekly assignments, then further broken into the days they were to do each assignment. I think including the color-coding organization into my classroom would really help in 1st grade

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I love the idea of creating the topics by Weeks instead of by subjects.  It definitely would help those students who possibly get behind on their work.  They could go back to the weeks that they haven't completed.

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I love the idea of organizing topics by the day of the week and then placing it in the topic of that week that it is assigned.

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I have heard of people organizing their google classrooms by topic, but I have never done that to my own before. I love how she posted the topics for each week. It looks more organized and I think students would be able to locate it better. I also like the idea of using emojis for the symbols to show days of the week or for grading.

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I organized my google classroom using topics, but I LOVED her idea about color coding according to days of the week. I also loved the tips about changing the settings for the stream. I found that posting all of my assignments to the stream clogged it up, and students often missed an announcement that I had posted.

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I actually have had my Google Classroom organized by week as she suggested. I also put the date in the assignment title so that students could keep assignments organized by days, but I had not put the name of the day OR used emojis to add to my organization. I think those hints would be very helpful! Another thing I need to educate myself on is how to video a tutorial for students and parents on how to navigate through my Google Classroom. Creating my own video is necessary, because each Google Classroom set up is unique to its creator, so there isn't a 'one size fits all' video out there to share.

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A huge game changer while using google classroom was taking advantage of the scheduled announcements and assignments feature. It allowed me to work ahead, to stay organized, and prepared! My biggest take away from the video I just watched was organizing content by weeks and the cool concept of using emojis to further organize assignments! I will absolutely be using emojis in my future google classroom! I think it will also make things a little more fun for students!

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I organized my google classroom with just topics first. It was very user friendly. Then I watched a video on adding emojis and I added those to my the topics/organization more visual for my 2nd graders. It worked great! I also used a new slide presentation each day similar to the one Lindsey was sharing this morning. I did link the district page after making some editing changes, but also included any organizers that they would need to type on. The last slide was always a reminder to double check that they had typed on slides or attached a written assignment and had hit the "turn in" button. Plus it was a visual to let them know that they were finished for the day! *Ashley Poe

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I am not a tech person, and I was brand new to Google Classroom before all of this.  I am catching on SLOWLY.  I will definitely be referring back to several of these videos.  It's nice to have a small library of tutorials...thanks.

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Although I have used Google Classroom for about 2 years now, I never knew about the emoji option.  The video on organization helped me tremendously.  I will definately add emojis to my classroom.

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These videos are wonderful.  Learning the basics to better organization is going to be so helpful for me in the future.  Whether we go online or not, I think it will be a great way to organize and archive lessons that I have done.  🥰. AND Yay for emojis.

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The videos are so helpful with details on organizing your classroom. I love the emoji copy idea to help students with assignments. My physical classroom is filled with emojis, and using the fun emojis in my virtual classroom will, I hope, help students enjoy learning from both places.

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These tips were great!  I organized my topics by date and included all of the assignments for that day.  I also used the 'schedule' feature a lot to stay ahead on my posts.  I LOVED the emoji idea for color coding!!! I think that will be really helpful for younger students to navigate content posted. Also, I will definitely be updating my settings to clean up my stream as well!  I didn't know about that option.  The cleaner/more organized the better!!  ~Kayla Garner

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I loved the organizing by weeks tip. Also adding the emojis as symbols or to color coordinate. I learned that you can click to do and then start grading. That was also an amazing tip.

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My favorite take aways were hiding assignments from the Stream and using emojis. I love the idea of color coding assignments and using emojis for organizing.

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I agree! The stream could be very overwhelming for some parents. Taking assignment notifications off of the stream will be very helpful.

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I love the explanation of how to hide the assignments from the stream.  The stream gets very busy in a hurry once assignments get posted.  This will allow me to utilize the stream for important announcements and messages.

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I love the organizational video, from the "hide notification" tab to how to add an emoji, it was great!  Great info and tips on both videos!  Lillian Bock

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Loved all the quick and easy organizational tips- click and drag to the topic, organizing the stream, emojis, grading tips!

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BES 2nd grade zoomed and watched the videos together! We loved the videos on organizing google classroom and creating google slides. We will be referring back to these videos for sure. A great tip we talked about was resizing the slide to the size of paper to make it easier to print out! -Bradley, Bredlow, and Smith

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I, too, liked the tips from the video. I'm ready to begin using them. I had a lot of ELL's in my classroom and quite a few students that were not on grade level, so some of the texts were too hard for them to read. I used Free Cam to record a voice-recording of the text. Free Cam would record what was on my desktop in addition to my voice. I am sure Screencastify does the same thing, but Free Cam was really easy for me to use.

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I learned so much from this video, took a whole page of notes for future reference.  Adding the day and date to the title of the assignment was a great idea.  I'm all for anything that breaks the learning down into easier to manage pieces.

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I organized my classwork by topic and this was very helpful and organized for both parents and myself. I used the stream for announcements.  I also moved the daily zoom link to the top of the stream each day and this was very helpful and easy to find.

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I loved the idea of using the emojis..... can't wait to try it!!

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I loved the video about organizing your Google Classroom.  I previously organized just by topics, which actually worked pretty well but I feel like it might be easier for the students/parents if I organize by week when we start back to school.  I work in SPED and my parents had to be extremely involved with all of my students during eLearning.  The assignments showing up in the stream was a little overwhelming for them so I will definitely select the option to hide those notifications and direct them to access the assignments under Classwork.  I also really liked where they could click to view all of their assignments. I already date my assignments in the topic line; however emojis are an awesome visual that I will definitely incorporate to provide additional support in navigating assignments.

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I'm glad to see the emoji copy tip. I color coded my subjects on the agenda I sent out each day, but I really like pictures! I also like the idea of organizing assignments by week. By the end of April, my Google Classroom was hard to navigate. I didn't want to move things around at that point, though. The parents had enough of a challenge figuring out how to use GC without me changing things.

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From:  Stephanie Shaw❤️ The pro tip form Lindsey for my Mac!  Yay! I loved the idea of using emoji's to alert them to something like a graded assignment.  I also liked the tip for grading instead of going through each student individually so that all of the assignments I need to grade turn up and I could see it more easily.

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I organized by day and only added info one day at a time. Felt like my parents got overwhelmed if there was too much on the screen.  Did love learning how to add emojis, color coding, etc.,....

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I loved the tip about grading!  I used topics but she had some great tips that will help organize it even better!

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This was SO helpful. I love the way she organized by the week. I'm going to be so much more organized next time!

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I am all about organization! And I love the idea of labeling the subjects with emojis and the days of the week by color. A. Kirkley

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I loved seeing how to get stuff out of the stream. Super Helpful! I organized by subject, but will definitely consider organizing by week if we have to do this again! -Jordyn McNulty

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I also LOVE the emoji copy tip! I think this is an awesome way to get the students' attention. I also can appreciate the info on how to organize the assignments in a way that is not overwhelming for the students.

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I organized mine by topic and day of the week and I really liked how clean it looked:)  but I lOVE the emoji idea!  And cleaning the stream page up is huge!

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I loved the short cut to grade assignments instead of clicking on each one. I also I would like to link my parents to Google Classroom so they can follow up with their child's assignments.  When using Google Classroom at the beginning, I organized mine by topics.  It become very overwhelming!  Then I decided to organize my lessons by the date.  It helped my parents, students, and ME!  K. Allen

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I organized mine by the subject, but I do think organizing it by the week could be better. I LOVE the emojis too!

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The clicking and dragging assignments was a great tip.  Also I love all the suggestions for organizing your classroom.  This was wonderful!

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LOVE the emoji Copy tip!  I think that will be a great way to call attention to assignments.  I can't wait to try it!

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I wish I had known all of this before we started online learning.  I feel so bad for my kids and my parents!!!

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I loved the video on how to organize the google classroom. I will definitely add more topics and clean up my stream as well as organize assignments better. The emojis were great!!!  -Ferrell

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Yes, cleaning up the STREAM is huge.  I trained my parents to ignore that and basically ignored it and just had them go to the CLASSWORK tab.  This setting will allow me to clean up the stream and make it useful for it's purpose of announcements and pictures and such.

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I love how you can hide the classwork from the stream so students (and parents) aren't overwhelmed when opening the classroom.  I organized my classroom by subject this past spring, but it may be easier by week, especially when using the emojis.  I love the emojis in front.  That makes it seem so much more organized.  -Loy

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I liked how she got things out of the stream.  I also didn't know I could click and drag things!  That was a huge one for me.

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I did not know much about google classroom at all and I should have taken the time to look at blogs and study on how to use all of the tools available. I loved the video that I just watched. I loved how she organized it, I love how she made the changes to the stream ( I did not know that was in settings), and I loved how she planned out her weeks ahead of time. Great video and super helpful!

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I loved the faster way to grade! Game changer!   I will use that next year.  Also, didn't realize you could add the parents into the classroom.  -ADecker

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I love the idea of organizing by weeks instead of subject. I also love the idea of using an emoji. I can't wait to add that into my google classroom. -SWalsh

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I always tried to stay at least one week ahead. I would upload assignments and schedule them to post the night before. This helped me and the students have those assignments and made it easier for me to stay organized. I loved the video about organizing your classroom. I had so many takeaways: I love how she organized by topics by the week. I had a long list of assignment when you went to classwork and I will defintley be organizing by topic in the Fall if we continue with online learning. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE the emoji idea! I have saved that website (emojicopy.com) and plan to use a specific color for each subject. I will do the suggested tutorial for parents and students at the beginning so they understand the color code. This is going to make my classroom SO neat and organized (EEK!) I am so excited! One issue I had was "grading" and commenting on assignments. I had to click each one and wondered if there was an easier way and I love that there IS! She talked about how to click on the "to-do" and all the kids will be on the same page and it makes grading and commenting so much quicker! Great video and very informative! - Lbroach

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Loved the organization ideas!  I will be organizing by week next year instead of topic.  I also loved the faster way she mentioned about grading by clicking "To do" and then being able to see ALL assignments I still need to grade in one long line instead of having to click on each individual assignment to be able to see what I have and have not graded. -Candice Richardson

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I love the idea of organizing by weeks instead of subject. I also love the idea of using an emoji. I can't wait to add that into my google classroom.

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Topics are great.  The new tidbit I took away was using emojis as symbols to show them what is graded or to better organize your assignments.

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I found that organizing my content by topic makes a HUGE difference. Also, pro tip for Mac users.. if you want to use emojis you can hold down command + control + space bar to make an emoji box pop up in any window! That's a lot faster than using the emoji copy application and will save you tons of time! 😁✌🏼