20 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom - Teacher Tech Google Classroom ( is available to schools with a Google Apps for Education (GAfE) domain. Classroom is a way to get all of your students in one place and allows you to easily assign work and for students to turn it in. Book: “50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom” now available on Amazon. For a tour of Google Classroom visit 50thingsbook.com. Sharing Resources: Google Classroom allows you to take a document, video or link and push it out to your students.Create a Lesson: More than simply assigning work to students, Google Classroom allows you to build an assignment. Include a description and attach multiple documents, links and videos. Link to my follow up blog post: 15 MORE things you can do with Google Classroom. Link to my follow up blog post: 10 additional things you can do with Google Classroom. Thank you to Sean Junkins for creating a nice poster infographic based on this blog post.
10 Google Classroom time savers for teachers Google Classroom can already make us more efficient, but these tips can save you even more time and effort. (Images via Pixabay.com and Google) If you and your students are using Google Apps in the classroom, Google Classroom can save you tons of time and effort. It helps you assign, collect, grade and return work seamlessly. But, like anything else, there are tricks that can help you do the same work in less time. They make you more efficient and effective. Here are some tips to save you some time while using Google Classroom: 1. Digging files out of assignments in Google Classroom isn’t the only way to open and review student work. 2. Teachers don’t have to answer every question! 3. Is all the email that Classroom sends you killing you? First, Classroom lets you turn email notifications on and off. Next, Google sends you notifications when someone replies to a comment you wrote. 4. Other keyboard commands: Tab can move through links and text fields on the page. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Related
10 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom Pinterest Here are 10 Fantastic Ways for Teachers and Students to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom! At first glance, it can be easy to dismiss the Google Drawing tool. It does seem rather simplistic. Below is an infographic I created with Piktochart. Use the buttons below to save or download a copy of this image. Download File Summary Article Name 10 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom Description Here are 10 Fantastic Ways for Teachers and Students to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom! Author Kasey Bell © Shake Up Learning 2016.
10 add-ons to Google Classroom you MUST try Google Classroom’s basic features are powerful. Take it to the next level with some add-ons created just for teachers and students. The basic functions of Google Drive and Google Classroom are only the starting point for the innovative and creative uses one can use in the classroom. Alice Keeler, my co-author in our upcoming book Ditch That Homework, proves that again and again. Alice is one of the only people I know personally who codes for fun. (OK, she’s probably the only one I know like that!) It’s like Google Sheets bows down on one knee to this woman and does her bidding. Alice has created dozens of pre-created templates, add-ons, scripts, extensions — you name it, she’s created them. Two of these are Google Chrome extensions — little programs you install in your Chrome web browser that will perform certain tasks. But most are scripts/add-ons she wrote to run inside Google Sheets or other Google tools. Here are 10 of them I like the most. 1. With DriveSlides, you can: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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How to manage Google Classroom like a boss with notifications Notifications can make you more streamlined and less overwhelmed in Google Classroom. They’re easy to manage too. (Icon by Icon Depot via TheNounProject.com) When you’re using Google Classroom to manage your class’s workflow, there’s a lot going on. There are assignments and announcements that you’ve created.There are student comments to respond to.There’s grading — and the comments that go with that. It can feel like you’re doing Google Classroom’s bidding — like it’s this cruel taskmaster that has all of this work for you. What if you could make Google Classroom work for YOU instead? Google Classroom gives teachers, students and even parents/guardians these great notifications. If you know how to use set up and manage these notifications, when you ask them to jump they’ll say “how high???” Here’s what you need to know: What type of notification is best? As a teacher, you have two types of notifications: email notifications and device notifications. How to enable email notifications 1. 2. 1.
A Step By Step Guide on How to Locate and Add Add-ons to Your Google Drive October 12, 2014 It seems from the emails we keep receiving from some of our readers here that they still did not grasp the concept of add-ons that Google released a few months ago. In a nutshell, add-ons are third party tools created to add capabilities to your documents and spreadsheets.The majority of these add-ons are created by independent developers not affiliated with Google. Since the release of this new feature that supports third party extensions in Google Drive, the add-ons store is now teeming with all kinds of applications to use on your documents and spreadsheets. These tools cover a wide variety of services and enable users to perform some enhanced functionalities on their documents and spreadsheets. Here is how to locate and install an add-on on your document or spreadsheet. 1- Open a document or spreadsheet 2- Click on "add-ons" then select "get add-ons" 2- Browse through the store and select the add-on you want to install
20 great ways to start using Google Classroom now Google Classroom is a powerful yet simple place to manage everything you do with G Suite Apps in the classroom. Here are some ways to get started with it. In fall of 2014, Google released Classroom to anxiously awaiting teachers. Since then it has become a favorite among G Suite using educators. Here’s why: It looks and feels like a Google product (which it should and which is a good thing)It’s clean and simple (which hopefully will make it easy to use)It provides a home base for everything you do in Drive For those of us that used lots of Google scripts (i.e. Here are some ways you can get started using, or continue using, Google Classroom now. 1. You can also upload a photo to display at the top of your Classroom. 2. 3. Click the “+” button in the bottom right corner of the screen and choose “Create announcement.” 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Group activities — Assign an activity to an individual group. 15. 16. 17. Under “Classwork”, click the “Create” button and add a topic.
Teachers Easy Guide to Creating Quiz Shows on Google Drive January 3, 2015 Flippity is a powerful web tool that you can use with Google Spreadsheets to perform a variety of tasks. In the last post we published here we talked about how to use Flippity to create Flashcards and we visually demonstrated how teachers can go about creating their own flashcards using this tool. Today, we are sharing with you another great functionality provided by Flippity. This time you will get to learn how to use Flippity to create a Quiz Show from a Google Spreadsheet. Click here to see a demo. Here is how you can make your own Quiz Show using Flippity on Google Spreadsheets: 1- 1- Click on this template and copy it to your Google Spreadsheet by clicking on "file" and " make a copy" 2- Now that you are on the copied version of that template, edit the text and type in the data you want to include in your Quiz Show. 3-Publish your sheet by clicking on "file " then "publish" 4-Copy the link under the link tab
The Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide + tips and tricks! Google Classroom makes organizing and managing all of your Google Apps activities streamlined and easy. Set it up in minutes. (Sketch by Matt Miller) Google Classroom was created to focus less time on tech and more time on teaching. And it certainly has lived up to its billing. Classroom has streamlined the classroom workflow and makes communication easier between teaches and students. It creates a central home for class activities.It lets teachers create assignments (and other class activities).It collects assignments from students.It helps teachers grade assignments and provide feedback.It returns assignments to students. Have you set up Google Classroom in your classroom? This guide will show you how to set Google Classroom up in a matter of minutes and perform the main tasks. Consider keeping this post open in one tab in your browser and Classroom in another so you can refer back. Let’s get started! Set up your class in Google Classroom 1. 2. 3. You must add a name for your class. 4.
Color Code and Organize Your Google Drive - Ladybug's Teacher Files It seems like I rely more and more on my Google Drive each year of my teaching. I upload my favorite resources to folders, create docs for my students to use in Google Classroom, store maps for Social Studies, upload photos of our Science experiments...there is just so much you can do with the drive. And I really love how easy it is to organize your files. But, truth be told, I was never a big fan of the layout and colors. A sea of gray folders is never really helpful when you are a busy teacher trying to find docs on the fly. Or is there? I've had my folders colorized for a few years, but I learned something new. And it gets better. You can even include some basic symbols to organize those folders even further: Would you like to try? 1. 2. 3. 4. Navigate to the Copy Paste Character site and choose the number style you would like (I went with the larger numbers in black): Clicking on the number should automatically copy it to your clipboard. 5. And that's it!
Moodle To inquire about speaking, consulting, or coaching for your school, district, or event, contact Katherine via goyettekat@gmail.com. A new quick tip is added each week. Visit often for updates. Quick Tips are organized by app. The animated gif is in a loop, keep watching each image to view the tutorial in entirety. Google Drive Tips: Google Classroom Tips: Google Docs Tips: Google Slides Tips: YouTube Tips: GMail Tips Google Sites Tips: Google Keep Tips: Google My Maps Tips: Google Earth Tips: Chrome Extension Tips: Google Meet Tips The Comprehensive Google Drive Guide for Teachers and Students January 26, 2014 Google Drive is one of the fundamental tools in our digital toolkits as teachers and educators. Whether you want to compose a document, create a presentation, design a sheet, or share a beautiful drawing you made, Google Drive provides you with the tools to do that on any device and anywhere you are with an internet connection . Given this huge importance of Google Drive for teachers, I have created an entire section here packed full of tips, tricks, ideas, and third party tools to enable you to better tap into the full educational potential of this platform. Today, I am sharing with you a treasure trove of practical guides on how to use each tool in Google Drive. This is the same list I have been using to create guides I share with you here in this blog. Google Forms Google DocsGoogle DrawingGoogle SlidesGoogle SheetsWork on Google Drive Offline
8 Great Ways to Use Google Slides: Tips for Classroom Teachers Kasey Bell teaches us eight great ways to use Google Slides. From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Kasey Bell’s Google Certification courses are open for enrollment from May 28 until June 10, 2018. Listen Now Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e322 Date: May 29, 2018 Vicki: Today we’re talking with my friend Kasey Bell from “Shake Up Learning” and author of Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning from Static to Dynamic. Kasey, today we’re going to talk about all of the cool things that we can do with Google Slides that we might not know that we could do! So what’s your first thing that you see teachers get really excited about what they can do on Google Slides? What tricks do teachers get really excited about in Google Slides? Kasey: Honestly, I find myself referencing Google Slides all the time. Google Slide Tip #1: Create an interactive Table of Contents