Google Classroom

Classroom is a new tool created by Google to allow teachers to push assignments out to students and for students to turn those assignments back in to the teacher. 

How does classroom work?

• It creates and collects assignments paperlessly,

• automatically makes a copy of a Google Document for each student,

• creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized, 

• it provides for direct, real-time feedback and grading right in Classroom.

More teaching, less tech-ing

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Why use Google Classroom

• It saves time,
• Improves organization,
• Enhances communication and is
• Easy to set up

Key Features

• Teachers can assign a Google Doc, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Drawing, a link, a YouTube video, an attachment, OR can just give a text description. Plus, you can add multiple items to an assignment.
• Students can attach additional items to an assignment, including other Docs and links.
• When students turn in a Doc, editing privileges are revoked for the student. They cannot see comments until the teacher returns it.

How it Works

• Classroom manages folders in Google Drive. It copies files to teacher and student folder
• in Drive, a folder called Classroom is created. Individual class folders are copied into that.

Several teachers at Belfast Area High School and Searsport Middle School have started using Google Classroom and although it has some flaws at present, on the whole, it is working well.  It makes it easy to organize digital work, both for teacher and student, and it also makes it easy to use online grading tools like Doctopus and Goobric - all paperless, meaning nothing for kids or teacher to lose.  

A Google Classroom help site link is going to be put on the staff portal but until that is complete,  the help website can be accessed by following this link:  Google Classroom