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Classroom Helps Teachers: ● automatically creates Drive folders for each assignment

● create and collect assignments paperlessly

● create assignments and share a single document or automatically make a

copy for each student.

● see who has or hasn't completed the work

● provide direct, real-time feedback

● Students can easily see what’s due, so they can stay on top of their work

● make announcements and start classroom discussions

● create, review, and grade assignments quickly, all in one place

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Classroom Helps Students: ● stay organized with one Drive folder for each class/teacher

● notifies students on class stream when work is assigned and due

● class materials are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive

● communicate and assist classmates through class discussions

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When you see me you are

looking at the TEACHER

view

When you see me you are

looking at the STUDENT

view

Teacher/Student View

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Initial Screen www.classroom.google.com

Select your role

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Create Your First Class Teachers have the ability to create a class or join a class as a student.

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Join Your First Class Students only have the ability to join classes.

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Classroom Home The classroom home displays all classes created.

Rename class

Permanently remove class Access class

Drive folder

# of students enrolled

Class name

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Class About Page The About page allows you to share information about the class, as well as materials that all students need, such as syllabus or schedule.

Title of class

Class description

Location of class

Teacher’s email

Class Google Drive Folder

Add class materials

Title of material

Attach document, Drive file, YouTube video, hyperlink

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Create a New Class

Name the class

Include Section

(optional)

From Classroom

Home

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Class Homepage

Add Students

Create Announcement or Assignment

Class Homepage

Name of Class Class

Section

Hover & Select to ‘Change

class theme’

Class Stream

Students can join with Class Code

Shows upcoming assignments 7

days in advance

Switch Classes & Settings

Information About the

Class

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Class Homepage Name of

Class

Shows upcoming assignments 7

days in advance

Switch Classes

View students in class

Post message to class stream

Class Homepage

Email message from teacher: both teacher and student must have district Gmail account to receive messages

Class Stream

Information About the

Class

Show if assignment is open or closed

Status of Assignment

Status of Assignment

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Change Theme

Select image from Gallery

Hover & Select ‘Change class

theme

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Have Students Sign Up for Class

Give your students your

class code

Teachers have the ability to give students a class code to join instead of having to manually adding the students.

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Joining a Class

Students can enter the class code given

by the teacher

Teachers have the ability to give students a class code to join instead of having to manually adding the students.

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Add/Invite Individual Students

Search students by name

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Add/Invite Groups of Students You can add/invite groups of students that you have created or that have been created by your district through the the SIS (student information system).

Select group name

Select all or individual names

in group

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Choose Posting & Commenting Rights The teacher has the ability to decide what rights the students have when it comes to posting and commenting on the class stream.

Choose rights - this applies to all

students in the class

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Restrict Commenting/Post for Individual Students

The teacher has the ability to “mute” individual students which will restrict those students from posting and commenting.

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Make an Announcement

Attach file from

computer

Write announcement

Click here

Upload Drive File

Add YouTube

Video

Attach link

Choose classes to post to; option appears

when 2+ classes are created

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Displayed Announcement

Add Comment

to Post

The announcement will be displayed on the class stream.

Show time (same day) or date posted

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Make an Assignment Click here

Choose due date

from calendar

Name Assignment

Give assignment description (optional)

Give specific time assignment is due

Attach file from

computer

Upload Drive File

Add YouTube Video

Attach link Choose classes to assign assignment; option

appears when 2+ classes are created

Cancel assignment

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Add Attachment to Assignment

Upload file

Upload documents,

spreadsheets, images, etc.

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Add Drive File to Assignment

only viewing rights

all students will be able to edit same file

each student will get an editable copy of the file

Select file in Drive Select

starred Drive file

Show inserted file

Remove inserted file

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Add YouTube Video to Assignment

Search by name

Directly add YouTube

video URL

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Add URL to Assignment

Paste or type in URL

Remove URL

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Displayed Assignment

Google Drive File; student will find file on

Assignments Page How Drive file

was shared with students

Add a comment about the

assignment

view the assignments

submitted

view the assignments not submitted

time or date submitted

Title and description

The assignment will be displayed on the class stream.

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View Deleted Items

View deleted assignments/posts from the teacher and deleted

posts from the students

When you view deleted items they will be grayed out in the stream. You cannot recover deleted items.

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View All Student Assignments

From assignment page click Folder

The teacher can click on the folder icon from the Assignment Status page to gain access to all the students’ assignments.

shows status

Assignments started by students will appear in folder

If there is no file in the folder then the student has not started the assignment.

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View Individual Student’s Assignment The teacher can click on an individual student’s name to access their assignment file from the Assignment Status page.

shows status

Click on students name

Click on file to view progress

Click on students name

If no file exists, the student has not started the assignment

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Submit an Assignment

submit assignment

due date assignment

title create Drive file

assignment file

add comment for teacher

add existing file

add existing Drive file

add link to online source

add file from computer

The student will lose editing rights to the Drive file once the assignment is turned in. They have the option to unsubmit the assignment to obtain editing rights again.

remove added file

The student can click on the assignment name from the class stream or the assignment sidebar to submit work.

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Mark Assignment as Done Sometimes assignments do not require students to turn in work. Use the ‘Mark as Done’ button on the assignment page to show you have completed the task.

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Un-Submit an Assignment Students can un-submit an assignment that they have already turned in.

add note for teacher

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Re-Submit an Assignment After students have un-submitted an assignment, they can re-submit once changes have been made by selecting ‘Turn in’ again.

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Assignment Alerts

Shows alert on Class homepage stream for assignments about to

be due and those overdue

Shows an alert on sidebar for

assignments about to be due

denotes assignment has been turned in

The class stream will notify students when work is about to be due or overdue.

denotes assignment is late

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View all Assignments

Click here to view all assignments

The students can click on the ‘View All’ link in the Assignments section on the sidebar to gain access to all submitted and unsubmitted assignments.

shows date turned in

shows grade when graded and returned

Shows assignments

still due

shows completed

assignments that have

been turned in

Shows if assignment is

late

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Submitted/Unsubmitted Assignments

return work back to

student (if turned in) to

edit/redo

Assignment title

return back to class

homepage

view assignment

details

view students with submitted and

unsubmitted status

email student; both teacher & student must have district

Gmail account. view

assignment Drive folder

assign point value: 1, 20,

50, 100, or no point value

click to assign grade

assignment status

Gives you the assignment status of each student.

Download grades as

csv file

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Assignment Submissions

assignment name

Click on the assignment from class stream or assignment sidebar and select assignment status. Click on student’s name to see submission date/time and submission history.

assign grades

Date/time assignment was turn in &

submission history

Click on students name

Assignment status

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Grade Assignments

type in grade

Assign grade on the Assignment Status Page.

change point value

add comments

The teacher gets editing rights to the file when the student turns in the assignment. Once the teacher returns the assignment the rights switch from editing to commenting.

after grade has been assigned, click Return

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Sort Students by First or Last Name Teachers have the ability to sort students by first or last name to make grading easier.

Choose sorting type

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Export Grades The teacher can export grades to upload into district’s gradebook. You can download grades for individual assignments or all assignments. Click on an assignment name to access this feature.

Choose download type

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View Graded Assignments Students can click on assignment name from the class stream or from the assignments sidebar.

Points earned / total points

Click to access file

See grades from all classes or specific class

Name of assignment; Click to see assignment details

and resubmit assignment if needed

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Drive Folder(s) Classroom automatically creates a folder for each assignment you create.

Students who have started the assignment will have files in the

assignment folder; If no file exists for a student they have not

opened the shared file or created an assignment file

Folders for each class

Folders for each

assignment

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Drive Folder(s) Classroom automatically creates a folder for each class the student is enrolled into.

Class assignments

Folders for each class

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Need Ideas? Visit my Google Classroom Helpful Tips and Integation Ideas resource for suggestions.