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Google Classroom Updates!


Google classroom is a great tool for keeping you and your students informed and organized!  Since Google announced Google Classroom 3 years ago, more than 1 billion assignments have been turned in by students!

Google announced 10 updates to Google Classroom at the beginning of August.  Here are the ones I think are relevant, in the order of importance!

Mind Blowing Category:

View all submitted work for a single student!
While in the Student tab, simply click on a student, and see a list of all submitted assignments from that student.  Click an assignment to see the detail!  This is amazingly helpful in tracking student progress!

Really Helpful Category!

Arrange your Classroom Tiles on your page!

Now you can click and move your classroom tiles on your front facing page in the order you want them!

Full Screen view of Class code.

 An easy way to have students join your Classroom is to post your Class code on your projector (found on the Student tab).  You now have the option of clicking the triangle next to the class code and selecting 'Display'.    Now the code is easy for all students to see in the room.


Transfer classroom ownership to another teacher.

A really great feature for our Humanities teachers who may teach a full year class Semester 1, and change to teaching a different course Semester 2!  Also great for use with long term subs!

Google Forms as Quizzes - import Grades to Classroom, and grade one question at a time with feedback!

Until now, you could assign students a Google Form as a Quiz through Classroom, and that was the end of integration between the Form and Google Classroom.  Now, you will soon be able to import Quiz grades into Google Classroom.  In late June, Google launched question-by-question grading in Google Forms as Quizzes to help teachers save time by batch grading assessments.  Taking it a step further, teachers now have the option to add feedback as well! 

Decimal grading now allowed.

You can now use decimals for grading (for example, give 8.5 points out of 10!)

New app integrations:

Of these applications, Code.org is exciting in that it helps teach critical thinking from a programming perspective.  Kami might be of interest if you want students to annotate primary source documents, etc. 

Want to learn more about Google classroom?

Join me!

Google Classroom - Get Ready for the First Day of School!
Tuesday, August 29th 12:30-1:30 Room 242

Self paced options:


Google Classroom Phase 1, 2 & 3
Self-paced intro to Google Classroom (CCHS resource)
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Google Classroom - First Day of Classroom!
A Google site filled with videos and resources for using Classroom!

Full list of Google Classroom Updates


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