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Definitive Guide for Teachers to Learn Everything About Google Classroom and Its Teaching Apps. Tips and Tricks to Improve Lessons Quality

JEREMY PAGES

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CHAPTER ONE

GOOGLE CLASSROOM

G oogle Classroom and how it works

Google Classroom is a free online service created by Google to aid as a collaboration tool between students and teachers to ease the exchange of files or documents from one person to another. The main purpose of the Google Classroom is that it is designed to allow for easy creation, sharing and assessment of assignments on the part of the teachers while the students can also answer and submit for grading without the need for printing; the streamlining of this process is done by the Google Classroom. Online classrooms can be created by teachers and then the students are invited, after which assignments and other class activities can follow.

The progress of each student can also be tracked on the Google Classroom along with sending emails to the student and their parent. This helps teachers to keep tabs on students and have a real-time feedback as to which of the students have completed their works or not.

Google Classroom integrates your classroom with Google Documents, Google Mail, Google Forms, Google Calendar, Google Sheets and Google Slides into a single platform hence totally avoiding the use of papers. Classes can be joined by either having your students imported from the domain of a school or by invitation through a private code. Google Classroom has the Google Calendar integrated in order to aid with assignments having due dates and also class speakers.

Features of the Google Classroom

Asides from just providing a platform to submit assignments, the Google Classroom also provides further features of grading the assignments, providing comments in the Classroom or communication, report of originality, courses can be archived, and others.

Assignment

The Google Classroom provides the platform that allows for storage and grading of assignments between the students and the teachers or between students and students. The files are prepared on the Drive of students after which it can then be submitted for grading. To avoid a situation where a particular document is viewed, copied or edited by all of the students, teachers can proceed to use a file as a template as this helps each student to have access to their own copy which can then be edited and then graded upon submission. There is also the added feature for students to attach extra documents to their assignments from their Drive.

Grading

There are different ranges of grading schemes on the Google Classroom. Teachers can also have files attached to assignments which are sent to students on an individual basis. Files can be designed by students in a situation where the teacher failed to create the file, after which they can attach the file to their assignment. Each students progress can also be monitored and tracked by the teacher as they, the teachers, have the option to edit and pass comments. To allow for the assignments to be revised, graded assignments are turned back to the students with or without additional comments by the teachers. Graded assignments cannot be edited by the students but only by the teacher.

Communication

Teachers are able to pass announcements to the classroom and in a bid to allow for communication in both ways between the students and the teachers; the students can also make comments under the post. Posts from students can be moderated as it does not have such level of priority as any post from the teacher. Google Drive Files such as documents, sheets, slides and YouTube videos can also be attached to any post in a bid to have such content shared. The Google Mail has an option provided in the Google Classroom interface that allows emails from the teacher to be sent to one students or multiple of them.

Originality Report

This is a recently added feature that helps in improving the writings of students as it has missing citations flagged and also helps to highlight source materials. This is done by helping students, teachers and Google classroom users to identify sections or parts of a work that has been submitted which contains such particular wordings or parts of an alternative source. This also provides teachers with the opportunity to check for the integrity of the assignments submitted by their students. There is however a limit on how you can use the originality report as this depends on the version of Google Classroom you are using.

Archive Course

Courses can be archived in the Google Classroom by teachers at the end of a year. Archiving a course removes it from the class homepage and has it placed in the area for Archived Classes. This is a move to help the teacher maintain organization and orderliness in the current class. Archived courses are however always available to be viewed by the teachers and students although no changes can be made to such courses unless the teacher has it restored.