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Google Classroom
Carol LaRow
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Google Classroom is part of "Google Apps For Education." Schools must have GAFE in order to use Google Classroom.
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Some Features
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- Establish paperless workflows with students
- Pass out and collect assignments in one place
- Create, assign, collect, and grade student work
- Each student receives his/her own copy of the assignment, including directions and due dates
- As students turn in assignments, Classroom keeps track of those who are done and those who are not
- Teachers can create different Google Classrooms for each of the classes they teach
- Teachers can co-teach classes with other teachers
- Google Classroom works with Google Drive, Docs, Forms, Presentation, Calendar, Gmail, etc.
- Teachers can share resources
- Assignments can have files, links to the WEB, videos, Forms, and more
- Facilitates teacher-student interactions
- Allows for private comments between teachers and students
- Puts all assignments in Classroom Folders which are automatically created
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Create Different Classes |
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Google Classroom Also allows teachers to:
- Create assignments
- Post class announcements
- Ask discussion questions, allowing students to post answers
- Create multiple choice questions
- Take polls/surveys
- Resuse assignments and announcements
- Post assignments to multiple classes at the same time
- Save assignments as "drafts" to edit and post later
- Schedule assignments to "post" to the Stream at a later date
- Use posts created in other Google Classroom classes they teach
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Assignment Menu |
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Reusing Posts Created In Other Classroom Classes:
- Choose, "Re-use Post" from the + Menu
- Select the class from the window that opens
- Select the post (assignment) you wish to re-use
- At the bottom of the window, select "Create new copies of all attachments" if you wish to resuse the attachments from the original post
- Click the "Reuse" button at the bottom of the window
- The assignment appears in the class you are working on
- Choose a due date
- Click, "Assign"
Note: If the original assignment pushed out a copy for every student, the re-used post will also do it, creating a new copy for each student.
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Creating Posts And Assigning To Multiple Classes:
- Classroom allows teachers to create one post, and
- Assign that post to multiple classes
- No need to re-type the post for each class you teach
- When creating the post, click the drop down arrow next to the name of the current class you are in
- The name of the class is located in the middle of the menu at the bottom of the window
- A list of the other classes you teach will be viewable
- Click the small box next to each of the classes you also wish to assign the post
- Click "Assign" when you are done
Each class you selected will be given the exact, same post, and the attached files will also be included
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Workflow
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As students turn in assignments, Classroom keeps track of students that are done and those that are not done. Teachers can see a status of the class at a glance. And, the results can be sorted.
Teachers can filter the page for: all students, those that are done, those that are not done, and assignments that have been returned.
In addition:
- Teachers can:
- open individual student's assignments from this page
- write personal comments to students as they return the work
- grade assignments on this page
- return assignments from this page
- Students can post personal comments back to the teachers
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Viewing Student Work:
- Teachers can view each student's work on a single page
- Clicking on a particular student's name will open a list for that student
- There's a filter to choose what to see on the page: work turned in, missing work, and work returned with a grade
- The following can be seen at a glance:
- grades for each assignment
- attachments the student has added to an assignment
- comments between that student and the teacher
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Reorder classes on the Classroom Homepage:
- Teachers can re-order how their different classes appear on the Classroom Homepage
- Just click and drag, or
- Use the drop down menu on the icon for each class
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Calendars:
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Classroom automatically creates a calendar for each class, with assignments and due dates, helping to keep students organized. Classroom also can link to your regular Google Calendar.
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Google Trends
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"Google Trends" - Get information about searches people are doing Worldwide. See broad search pattern results by country and city.
- Based on Internet searches done on Google over time
- Results only shown for those terms that receive a significant amount of search traffic
- Countries and cities show up, by rank - which areas searching the most for the term you entered in your query
- Can export to .csv files which can be opened in spreadsheet applications
- Have students use Trends when doing research
- Harvest Trend Charts for classroom discussions and lessons
- Can compare multiple terms; use commas
Go to "Google Trends"
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Google Translate
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"Google Translate" - Translate phrases, text, documents, and entire webpages.
- Type a phrase; translate instantly
- Works with 57 languages
- Type phrase to translate on the right side
- See translation on the left side
- Click the "speaker icon" to hear the words being spoken
- Detects language if you are not sure what language you are trying to translate
- Uses technology to do the translations
- Users can view alternate translations by clicking on words above the box.
- Users can also drag words to re-order them in the sentence (Use shift key)
Note: The boxes change, depending on what you type. If you type a phrase or word, the translation appears on the right side of the window. If you type a URL, the link appears on the right side of the window, and you click on it to go to the translated page. When a webpage is translated, you can hover over a word or sentence, and Google will translate that word or sentence back to the original language you started with.
Go to "Google Translate"
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Complete webpage translated |
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