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    Teaching with Google Classroom
    Teaching with Google Classroom
    Teaching with Google Classroom
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    Teaching with Google Classroom

    By Michael Zhang

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    Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easier

    About This Book
    • This is the first book to guide educators step by step through teaching with Google Classroom
    • It's focused on you, your students, and providing great learning experiences easily
    • It's easy to follow, with everything you need to get started and keep going even if you're not a technology fan
    Who This Book Is For

    This is a book for educators who want to use Google Classroom to teach better. It's not for geeks. There are rich examples, clear instructions, and enlightening explanations to help you put this platform to work.

    What You Will Learn
    • Create a Google Classroom and add customized information for each individual class
    • Add students to a Google Classroom
    • Send announcements and questions to students
    • Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments through Google Classroom
    • Add events to and share a Google Classroom's calendar with parents to track a student's progress
    • Reuse posts, archive classrooms, and perform other administrative tasks in Google Classroom
    • Use Google Docs Add-ons, and Google Chrome Webstore Apps and Extensions to enhance assignments
    • Set up Google Classroom's mobile app
    In Detail

    Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it's already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It's not just a manual, you'll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class.

    Style and approach

    This is a step-by-step guide to using Google Classroom, the rapidly emerging platform for education, effectively.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781786464767
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      Table of Contents

      Teaching with Google Classroom

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting to Know Google Classroom

      Creating your first Google class

      Navigating around Google Classroom

      Personalizing the class theme

      Changing the class theme

      Uploading a banner image

      Adding information about your classroom

      Adding files to your classroom

      Storing files in Google Classroom

      Inviting additional teachers

      Accessing classes from Google Classroom's homepage

      Summary

      2. Inviting Students to Their Virtual Classroom

      Setting up Google Classroom on student devices

      Computers and Chromebooks

      Installing Google Chrome in Microsoft Windows

      Installing Google Chrome on Apple OS X

      Installing Chrome without administrator permission

      Adding a Google Chrome shortcut to the Dock

      Setting up Google Chrome

      Tablets and phones

      Guiding students using the classroom projector

      Allowing students to join using the class code

      Joining a classroom with the class code

      Making changes to the class code

      Managing students in your classroom

      Manually inviting students to your classroom

      Removing students from your classroom

      Emailing students in your classroom

      Summary

      3. Sending Your First Announcement

      Creating an announcement

      Scheduling a time to publish an announcement

      Advanced features in announcements

      Attaching a file from your computer

      Attaching a file from Google Drive

      Including a YouTube video

      Making changes to an announcement in the Stream

      Reusing a previously created announcement

      How students receive announcements

      Disabling e-mail notifications

      Commenting on announcements

      Replying to comments

      Managing comments

      Editing and deleting comments

      Muting students

      Viewing all muted students at a glance

      Disabling comments in the Stream

      Summary

      4. Starting an Online Discussion with Questions

      Online or offline discussions

      Creating a question

      Additional features in the Question post not found in the Announcement post

      Creating short answer questions

      When to allow student edits

      The student view

      Replying to student responses

      Collapsing replies

      Creating multiple choice questions

      When immediate feedback is bad

      Grading a question

      Leaving a question ungraded

      Viewing the returned grade

      Summary

      5. Handing out and Taking in Assignments

      Creating an Assignment post

      Sharing files in assignments

      Viewing student files

      Viewing student files in Google Classroom

      Viewing student files on the Google Classroom mobile app

      Viewing student files in Google Drive

      Viewing files in a details list

      Turning in assignments

      Adding additional files to assignments

      Using mobile devices with assignments

      Unsubmitting and resubmitting assignments

      Turning in assignments late

      File ownership for assignments

      Summary

      6. Grading Written Assignments in a Flash

      Assigning a grade

      Providing feedback with private messages and comments

      Adding comments to student files

      Suggesting changes to a student file

      Monitoring student progress with revision history

      Using a rubric to grade assignments

      Installing Doctopus and Goobric

      Creating a rubric

      Ingesting and grading assignments with Goobric

      Re-enabling the microphone

      Goobric grading features

      Customizing the layout of Goobric

      Summary

      7. Google Forms for Multiple Choice and Fill-in-the-blank Assignments

      Creating a Google Form

      Adding questions to a Google Form

      Identifying your students

      Changing the theme of a Google Form

      Assigning the Google Form in Google Classroom

      Installing Flubaroo

      Assessing using Flubaroo

      Manual grading

      Automatic grading

      Tips and tricks when creating Google Form assignments

      Summary

      8. Keeping Parents in the Loop

      Inviting parents to receive guardian e-mails

      Sending e-mails to guardian e-mails manually

      Sharing Google Calendar with a URL

      Using Goo.gl to shorten the calendar URL

      Creating a website for Google Calendar

      Adding a Google Calendar to a Google Site

      Sharing the Google Site

      Creating additional events in Google Calendar

      Summary

      9. Customizing to Your Subject

      Citing references in Google Docs

      Using the research feature

      Creating citations with EasyBib

      Add-ons in Google Sheets and Slides

      Adding letters with accents in Google Docs

      Creating chemical models

      Inserting math equations in Google Docs

      Plotting graphs in Google Docs

      Deleting apps, extensions, and add-ons

      Exploring the Web Store by category

      Summary

      Teaching with Google Classroom

      Teaching with Google Classroom

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      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

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      First published: September 2016

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      Credits

      About the Author

      Michael Zhang is a certified trainer for Google Apps for Education. He has an Education and Science degree from the University of Alberta and works within the public school system in Canada. He is in contact with a large population of teachers and often questions them regarding modern technologies within the classroom. Given the opportunity, he teaches classes as well and has opportunities to use Google Apps for Education for a consistent set of students. Michael has spoken at several teaching conventions and facilitates technology training in Google Apps, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud and other software. His experiences help him to communicate technology in a comprehensible manner to his audience. He believes that technology should save time and improve productivity and hopes this book does just that for its readers.

      About the Reviewer

      Dr. Karen L Sipe has a bachelor's degree from the York College of Pennsylvania in secondary education, a master's degree in school administration from McDaniel College, a doctoral degree from Immaculata University in school leadership and a post-master's degree from Philadelphia University as a technology specialist. She is a member of PAECT  and ASCD.

      Dr. Sipe has completed online course development training through Wilkes University in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). She has developed online courses for PDE and facilitated online courses for Wilkes University.

      In addition to her many responsibilities, Dr. Sipe maintains the CVSD Tech Tips blog in the district. Through the blog, she presents information about various technology tools and resources (http://www.conewago.k12.pa.us/tech-tips-blog).

      Dr. Sipe has been with the Conewago Valley School District for 22 years. She was initially a teacher of business education, then a high school assistant principal, and for the last 12 years, she has held the position of Director of Educational Programs. Part of her responsibilities include the planning and implementation of technology-related professional development and coaching the K-12 staff. 

      Dr. Sipe is also an adjunct instructor for Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. She instructs graduate students on how to integrate technology into their classrooms.

      As Director of Educational Services, she has led, for her employer, technology boot camps in collaboration with Neumann College in Aston, Pennsylvania.

      Dr. Sipe is continually exploring new resources and tools that make the classroom more engaging and interactive for students and teachers. Her latest personal study is in the area of hybrid learning models and the incorporation and development of digital classrooms within these models.

      I want to thank Packt for allowing me to be part of this editing process. This book is very well written and I believe will be very beneficial to those with an interest in becoming proficient in the use of Google Classroom.

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      To my loving wife, who supported me in every step of the way. To my amazing sister and parents, who encouraged me to pursue this endeavor. To my editors and Packt Publishing, who believed I could write this book. To all my teaching colleagues who shared their ideas. Thank you all.

      Preface

      Google Classroom is part of the Google Apps for Education (GAFE) suite of online productivity apps packaged for teachers and students for online learning and collaboration. It is free, but must be deployed at the educational institution level. While GAFE contains many popular Google Apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive, that are accessible to anyone, Google Classroom is found only in GAFE. It provides a central site to communicate with students, assign homework, and send feedback. Some key strengths of Google Classroom are its time-saving features and easy-to-use and simple organization. Google Classroom is like a virtual extension of a brick-and-mortar classroom.

      The book provides a comprehensive overview of how to set up Google Classroom and what features are available. It begins with creating classes and adding students. Then it explores the features found within Google Classroom such as sending announcements, starting discussions and distributing and collecting assignments.

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