A Comprehensive Guide of Everything Teachers Need to Know about Google Classroom

May 26, 2015 Since its release awhile ago, Google Classroom has been such a hit in the EdTech world with millions of teachers already incorporating it in their daily instruction.With this widespread use of Google Classroom, Google rolled out a host of important updates to improve the functionality of Classroom and to respond to the emerging needs of educators. All of these updates are included in this post. Today’s post is intended to help teachers and educators make the best of Google Classroom by providing them with access to some very useful resources, materials and tips on the use of Classroom in education. All of these resources are created and provided by Classroom Help Center. 1- What is Google Classroom? “Classroom is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google document for each student. 2- How does Google Classroom Work? Teachers Students

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One Example of a “Bad Hint” A couple of weeks ago during the Sunday night #probchat on Twitter the topic of hints came up. (You can read the whole conversation at Storify.) A few people started talking about possible “good” and “bad” hints, and I wondered how we’d gotten onto the topic of hints, rather than talking about possible solution strategies (which was the current question posed in the chat). So I chimed in with

Google Keep - Rid yourself of scrawled notes and reminders! - Everything Google In addition to simple notes, if you click the New List icon, you can create lists that you can check off as you complete tasks. Any of your notes can be shared with others, just by clicking on the Share button . 5 Tips to Implement Google Drive in the Classroom - EDUSPIRE If you haven’t used Google Drive to manage student work in the past Google is sure making it difficult to ignore in the future. Why not explore a few of these management tips before the end of the school year so you can make it part of your plan for next year? Name and share a resource folder How? Google for Education: New ways to integrate with Google Classroom Posted by Pepper Lebeck-Jobe, Classroom API Tech Lead (Cross-posted on the Google for Work Blog.) Classroom debuted last year to help teachers and students save time and collaborate with each other, and since then we’ve been working on how to make sure it worked well with other products that educators love and use in their classes.

Responding to Student Progress One area where I need a lot of growth is responding to the progress of my students. Specifically, what are the next steps after I’ve identified the level of understanding in certain concepts? I recently decided to tackle this challenge during our review days for the state assessment. 80+ Google Forms for the Classroom If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Google Forms is a great tool for the classroom and this post from 2008 has always proven popular on my blog. Google for Education: Google Classroom: Basics Students have an entirely different view of Classroom than teachers. But it is equally as easy to use. Students can join classes, communicate with their teachers, turn in assignments, and even revise work that has already been turned in. Add a class A teacher can directly add a student to a class, or give them the class code to join themselves. The following instructions are from the point of view of a student in Classroom.

Finally! Google Classroom Lets You Share With Parents The complaint about Google Classroom that I've heard more than any other over the last couple of years has been, "parents can't see what's happening." Today, Google finally did something about that. You can now invite parents and guardians to subscribe to a daily or weekly summary of activities in your Google Classroom classes. Initiating the process of sharing summaries with parents and guardians does require cooperation on the part of your school's administrator.

NCTM Brain Teasers Sliding Triangle The triangle at left lies on a flat surface and is pushed at the top vertex. The length of the congruent sides does not change, but the angle between the two congruent sides will increase, and the base will stretch. Initially, the area of the triangle will increase, but eventually the area will decrease, continuing until the triangle collapses. What is the maximum area achieved during this process?