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Showing posts with label Google Classroom. Show all posts

5 New Interesting Features Added to Google Classroom

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October 16, 2014
Google Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. Google Classroom was officially launched last summer and since then several new interesting features have been added to it. Check out this guide to learn more about the 6 things you can do with Google Classroom in your class.



Tow days ago , Google announced the addition of an extra bunch of interesting services to Google Classroom. Here is what Google  said about them:

1- Groups integration: 
Ability to pre-populate classes using existing Google Groups. If your school uses tools like School Directory Sync, admins can sync class rosters from the student information system (SIS) into Groups.

2- Mark assignments as “done”: 
Students can mark assignments as complete even if there's nothing to turn in (e.g. watch a video, read a chapter, bring something to class)

3- Export all grades: 
Teachers will now have the ability to download grades for all assignments at once, making it easier to export assignments to any gradebook

4- Sorting: 
Teachers can now choose to sort students by first or last name, depending on their needs

5- Greater teacher controls:
 Teachers can now set permissions for whether or not their class can post or comment in the stream, they can mute individual students from posting or commenting and can even view previously deleted items in the stream


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3 Easy Ways to Integrate iPad into Your Google Classroom

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September 11, 2014
Now that the Google Classroom is officially released to all Google Apps for Education accounts, those of you using iPad in their instruction would probably be wondering about possible ways to integrate this new tool with iPad. The video tutorial below will guide you through the process of how students and teachers can use Google Class on their iPad to create and turn in assignments.


The process is pretty simple and is made of three main steps:

  • Students use the suggested iPad apps to do their assigned work
  • They then export that work to their Google Drive
  • They turn it to Google Classroom by downloading it from Google Drive.

Here is a visual illustration of this process:


In this video tutorial, Greg Kulowiec  demonstrates this process using the following examples of assignments and apps students can work on:

  • Use Explain Everything to create a screencast and turn it to Google Classroom
  • Create video content through iMovie
  • Use Book Creator to create an ePub file or a digital file book .
  • Annotate a PDF using Notability app and turn it in to Google Classroom
  • Turn in a written assignment as a Google Doc using the Google Doc app.

Watch the video to learn more



To learn more about iPads and Google Apps, EdTechTeacher will be offering a Google Apps & iPads Pre-Conference workshop at their November 12-14 iPad Summit in Boston where Greg Kulowiec will be the keynote speaker.
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6 Great Things You Can Do with Google Classroom

8:59 PM    

September 10, 2014
Google has recently announced the official release of Google Classroom in more than 40 languages. Google Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes.
As a teacher, here are some of the key features you need to know about Google Classroom.



Creating Google Class for your class
Google Class allows you to create multiple virtual classes for your students. Within these classes, you will be able to share announcements with students, create and distribute assignments with them, grade and provide feedback on students work, engage in whole or private discussions with students, and many more. For each class you create, a class code will be generated for students to use to access the class.

Watch this video to learn how to create a class in Google Classroom



Assignments
One of the neat features of Google Classroom is the Assignment functionality. Teachers can use this service to create and post assignments to their students. To share an assignment, just click on the assignment tab and provide a name for it, a short description and a due date. You can embed docs, Google docs, and YouTube videos in your assignments.

Google Drive integration
Google Classroom is seamlessly integrated with Google Drive making thus teachers' work way easier and more productive. When you create a Google Classroom, a folder named "classroom" is automatically created in your Google Drive account and the same happens in students accounts when they join in your class. Not only that, each new class you create will have a subfolder created for it by default in your Drive. And when you create an assignment, a subfolder is created for each assignment in your particular class to gather all students work handed in via Google classroom.

Sharing Assignments with students


Google Classroom has a wonderful feature for sharing assignments with students. When you create an assignment in Google Docs and upload it to your Google Class, you will be provided with three sharing options: first, students can view file, second, students can edit file, and third which is quite handy is to allow Google Class to make a copy for each student in class which saves you the hassle of making and distributing duplicate copies to students

When students log in to their Google Class, they will be able to see any pending assignments right from their home screen. To open the assignment , students can click on the title of the assignment or click on the link next to it to open it directly in Google Drive. Alternatively, students can find the assignment in their Drive under the subfolder that is automatically created for the assignment in the Classroom Folder.

Collecting assignments
When students finsih working on their assignments , they can click on the "turn in" button to submit their work. They can also leave a comment under the assignment for teacher to read. Once the assignment is submitted, students have the option to unsubmit their work by clicking on the "unsubmit" button. This will allow them to edit their work before resubmitting it back to the teacher. Even after the work has been submitted, students have the ability to post a comment under their assignment to inform their teachers about, for instance, any critical issues with their assignments.

Grading Assignments
Once assignments are turned in, teachers can log in to their Google Class and see the number of students who submitted their work and those who did not. Teachers can also grade students work right in Google Classroom by either choosing one of the numerical values provided there or by providing a customized value or by uploading grades from a CSV file. Grades will show up in students accounts in Google Class.

Watch the video tutorial below ( by EdTech Teacher) to learn about these and many other features that you can use on Google Classroom.

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