10 Tips To Use Google Classroom Effectively

Google Classroom was designed hand-in-hand with Google Apps for Education teachers to help them save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students. Google Classroom is now available to all Google Apps for Education schools.

Google Classroom Infographic Best Practices

1. Kick off in-class discussion when you post topics and questions to the Stream.
2. Use Google Classroom for any subject and attach relevant videos, websites, documents and more.
3. Save time at the photocopier when you use the “make a copy for each student” feature.
4. Upload any file – PDFs, Office files, images – to Google Drive and assign them to students in Google Classroom.
5. Access Google Classroom from a web browser on any device to stay on top of work at school or on-the-go.
6. Connect with shy students online through the communication tools in Google Classroom and Google Docs.
7. Save trees (and money) when you go paperless with Google Classroom.
8. Share announcements with your whole school by putting all teachers and students in a “class”
9. Create a class for each subject or learning level and assign different materials to personalize learning.
10. Set up Google Classroom for younger students who don’t use Gmail by having your admin create Drive accounts for them.

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WRSD Google Apps PD & Tutorials - Classroom.

Google Classroom is available NOW at WRSD.

Classroom is a new tool in the Google Apps for Education suite and available for WRSD. It’s designed to give teachers more time to teach and students more time to learn. Classroom is basically a web-based platform for easier management of assignments and projects. With Classroom, teachers can create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and communicate with their classes with ease and initiate real time discussions. Classroom lets students organize their work in Google Drive, complete and turn it in, and communicate easily with their teachers and peers.  It may well be described as the "classroom of the future." The tool can also allow students to maximize the way they use their Google Chromebooks and other laptops and mobile devices.

How to get started? Go to http://classroom.google.com/ and you will see the screen below.

Let Google know your role as Teacher and then select  SUBMIT   

Now you’re ready to get started!

These are resources that will help you setup your classroom NOW!

• Product Overview
• Getting started steps from August workshop
• Learning tutorial and help center

If you want a more traditional introduction and help in setting up Google Classroom for your students, I will be conducting Tech Tuesday’s in September to do just that!

• Tuesday, September 9th (2:45pm HS/MS session & 3:45 Elementary session) &
• Tuesday, September 22nd (2:45pm HS/MS session & 3:45 Elementary session)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Maria

Maria E. Pearson

Instructional Technology Specialist

Winnisquam Regional School District

603.286.4531  x211

My Blog - http://wrsdtechnology.blogspot.com/