Google classroom

Google classroom
Classroom helps students and teachers organize assignments, boost
collaboration, and foster better communication.

It is designed to help teachers effectively manage document sharing and provide

feedback to their students. Google Classroom works side-by-side with Google
Drive and other Google apps.
Let’s get started
Getting Started
Access Google Classroom
1. Open your Chrome Browser.
2. Go to https://classroom.google.com/
● You can also click on the classroom icon in your Apps.

Add or Join a Class

1. Click on the “+” icon in the top right corner.
● You can join a class if you’ve been given a class code
● ...or you can create your own class.
2. When you select Create class you will be prompted to give the class a name
(you can provide a ‘subject’ and/or ‘section’ label as well).
Getting Started
Customize Your Classroom Look
Google will give you a random, generic banner for your classroom.

You can customize your classroom look by either (see right upper corner):

1. Clicking on Select theme and choose a theme from the Google gallery.
2. Clicking on Upload photo to add your own photo to your Google Classroom
banner.
Settings
On the new Settings page (the gear in the top right of the banner bar) you will find the following
options:

Class Details - Click on the pencil icon next to the class title to edit the title, class description, and
location where the class meets.
Class code - To give to your students so they can self-enroll in your class
Stream - Permissions for what students are allowed to do on the Stream page, such as posting,
commenting, or nothing.
Show deleted items - Control whether teachers can see items that have been deleted, which can
be helpful to deal with inappropriate student posts or comments.
Grading - Calculation options ‘No overall grade, Total points, and Weighted by category. You can
also add grading categories.
People
Enrolling Students
Method (1): Entering Student Google Accounts Yourself

1. In your Google Class, select the People tab.

2. Click on “Person+” icon in the Students section.
3. Type in the Google email address for each of your students and hit the ‘Invite’
button.
4. Each invited student will receive an email invite in their gmail inbox.
Enrolling Students
Method (2): Students self-enroll using a classroom code

1. To have students self-enroll, you can go to Steam tab and click the square
box to project the code larger on your screen.
2. Simply share this code with your students and they can go to
https://classroom.google.com/, hit the “+” icon, select “Join class” and enter
this code.
Adding a Co-teacher
You can invite other educators to co-teach in your Google Classroom (note: teachers
you add can do everything that you can except they won’t have the ability to delete the
class).

1. Click on the ‘People tab.

2. Click on “Person+” icon in the Teachers section.
3. Type in the Google email address for each teacher you’d like to invite and hit the
‘Invite’ button.
4. Each invited educator will receive an email invite in their email.
Stream
Stream Tab
Stream allows teachers to post announcements and share documents.

Create an Announcement
1. Click on the “Share something with class” box at the top of your classroom stream.
2. You can click the ‘For’ drop-down menu to select which classes this announcement is for (i.e you
can send an announcement to multiple or even all your classes).
3. You can click on the ‘Students’ drop-down menu to select which students will receive the
announcement (note: it defaults to all the students in a given class).
4. Enter your announcement under ‘Share with your class’.
5. You can add an attachment, an item from your Google Drive, a Link to a webpage, a File from your
computer or a YouTube video.
6. Finally, you can click ‘Post’ to post it right away (or you can schedule it to be posted later and/or
save it as a draft announcement).
Stream Tab

Reuse a Post (i.e. reuse a previous announcement)

1. Click on the “double arrow” icon to the right of the “Share something with your class” field.
2. You can go to any of your classes and reuse a previously posted announcement.
Classwork
Classwork
Classwork tab allows teachers to create assignments, create questions, use topics
to organize classwork into modules or units, and order the way you want students
to view classwork.

There is also the ability to grade assignments and to provide student feedback. To
add an item to the classwork stream simply select the “+ CREATE” sign at the top
left of the classwork page.
Create an Assignment
1. Click on the “+CREATE” icon in the top left corner and select ‘Assignment’.
2. You can click the ‘For’ drop-down menu to select which classes this assignment is for (i.e you post
an assignment to multiple or even all your classes).
3. You can click on the ‘Students’ drop-down menu to select which students will receive the
assignment (note: this is a great way to differentiate in your Google Classroom).
4. Enter the ‘Title’ of your assignment (and any instructions - optional).
5. You can note the ‘number of points’ (or put as “unmarked”).
6. You can give your assignment a ‘Due date’ (optional).
7. You can label the announcement with a ‘Topic’ (optional).
8. You can add an attachment, an item from your Google Drive, a Link to a webpage, a File from your
computer or a YouTube video. Or, ’+CREATE’ Google docs, slides, sheets, drawings, forms.
9. Finally, you can click ‘Assign’ to post it right away (or you can schedule it to be assigned later
and/or save it as a draft announcement).

Note: students will get a Turn In button on their end to submit and complete the assignment.
Create a Quiz assignment
1. Click on the “+CREATE” icon in the top left corner and select ‘Quiz assignment’.
2. You can click the ‘For’ drop-down menu to select which classes this assignment is for (i.e you post
an assignment to multiple or even all your classes).
3. You can click on the ‘Students’ drop-down menu to select which students will receive the
assignment (note: this is a great way to differentiate in your Google Classroom).
4. Enter the ‘Title’ of your assignment (and any instructions - optional).
5. You can note the ‘number of points’ (or put as “unmarked”).
6. You can give your assignment a ‘Due date’ (optional).
7. You can label the announcement with a ‘Topic’ (optional).
8. Basically you can see a ‘Blank Quiz’ form as an attachment. Create a form with your questions,
points and answer keys. Or, ’+CREATE’ Google docs, slides, sheets, drawings, forms.
9. Finally, you can click ‘Assign’ to post it right away (or you can schedule it to be assigned later
and/or save it as a draft announcement).

Note: students will get a Turn In button on their end to submit and complete the assignment.
Create a Question
1. Click on the “+CREATE” icon in the top left corner and select ‘Question’.
2. You can click the ‘For’ drop-down menu to select which classes this question is for (i.e you can send
a question to multiple or even all your classes).
3. You can click on the ‘Students’ drop-down menu to select which students will receive the question
4. Enter your question in the ‘Question’ window (and any instructions - optional).
5. You can note the ‘number of points’ (or put as “unmarked”).
6. You can give your question a ‘Due date and time’ (optional).
7. You can label the announcement with a ‘Topic’ (optional).
8. You can make the question a ‘Short Answer’ question or a ‘Multiple Choice’ question.
9. You can allow toggle on or off ‘Students can reply to each other’ and ‘Student can edit answer’.
10. You can add an attachment, an item from your Google Drive, a Link to a webpage, a File from your
computer or a YouTube video. Or, ’+CREATE’ Google docs, slides, sheets, drawings, forms.
11. Finally, you can click ‘Ask’ to post it right away (or you can schedule it to be posted later and/or save
it as a draft question).
Reuse a Post
1. Click on the “+CREATE” icon in the top left corner and select ‘Reuse post’.
2. You can go to any of your classes and reuse a previously posted assignment, or question.

Create a Topic
1. Click on the “+CREATE” icon in the top left corner and select ‘Topic’.
2. You can create as many topics as you’d like to organize your assignments and questions in the
classwork feed (note: you can also create a new topic anytime you make a new assignment or a
new question).
How to Provide Feedback to Students
Once you’ve added an assignment or question in your Google Classroom, it will show in your Classwork
stream. To view the assignment and any student work related to that assignment, simply click on it. When
you do, a drop down section appears that indicates how many students have completed the assignment
(Turned In) and how many students have been assigned this assignment/question (Assigned).

Alternatively, click on ‘To review’ on the left panel and it will land you to a To-do, To review tab page. All
assignments in all classes will show with the title, classroom, turned in and assigned. You can check all
reviewed items in the ‘Review’ tab.

1. Simply click on the submitted item from a given student.

2. If you’re accessing a Google Doc you can provide comments in the right hand side to give your
student some formative feedback.
3. Exit the document.
4. Click on the box beside the student(s) name(s) in the left panel and then click the Return button to
return it to the student with your comments and feedback now added in.
How to See All Your Classroom Files and Folders
Google Classroom automatically creates and manages all your files and folders within your
Google Drive. At any time, you can simply go to your Google Drive and click on the
Classroom folder (icon is located in the top right of the ‘Classwork’ tab section) to search all
your files for a given Google Classroom.
Grade
How to set up grading system
For your grading system, you can choose Total points or Weighted by category grading. In both,
grades are calculated for you, and you can let students see their overall grade.

If you don’t want to use a grading system, you can choose No overall grade. Grades won’t be
calculated and students can’t see an overall grade.

You can also organize classwork with grade categories, such as Essays, Homework, and Tests.
For example, if your class has 4 essay assignments, you can organize them in an Essays
category.

Adding grading systems and creating grade categories is only available in the web version of
Classroom.
About grading system
To have grades calculated for you and an option to let students see their overall grade, use Total points or
Weighted by category grading.

Total points grading

An overall grade is calculated for you by dividing the total points a student earns by the total points possible in the
class. You can create grade categories and set point values for classwork in each category. For example:

The table shows that a student scored 90 points out of 100 on an essay, and 95 points out of 100 on a test. The
student earned a total of 185 points out of 200 possible in the class. Divided, this gives an overall grade of 92.5%.
About grading system
Weighted by category grading

You assign weights (percentages) to grade categories, and an overall grade is calculated for you. This system
calculates as follows:

1. Finds a student's average for a category.

2. Multiplies each category’s average by its weight (as a decimal), giving category scores.
3. Adds the category scores for an overall grade out of 100%.
Tips
Classroom naming convention
Why Naming Matters?
Here are some of the benefits of proper class naming and naming conventions:

● You know what to expect from a certain class without looking at code or documentation, even if
you aren’t the person who created it or if it was written a long time ago.
● It’s easy to search and navigate a codebase.
● It’s easier to talk to your team when discussing problems/improvements.
● It makes onboarding newcomers easier, quicker, and less confusing.

Example: School CourseCode CourseTitle SY**** ***Sem

Graystone HMPE302 Catering Management SY2020 1stSem

Custom banner
● Inclusion of company/institute logo.
a. Example: blended background
● Use corporate color guideline.
● Illustration images you use for each course.
Notes
Rubrics
In education terminology,
rubric means "a scoring
guide used to evaluate the
quality of students'
constructed responses".

They are often presented

in table format and can be
used by teachers when
marking, and by students
when planning their work.
Rubrics
Features 5 4 3 2
Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner

Quality of Piece was Piece was Piece little style. Piece had no
Writing written in an written in an Gives some new style or gives no
extraordinary interesting style. information but new information
style. Very Somewhat poorly organized. and very poorly
informative and informative and organized.
well-organized. organized.

Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling and A number of So many

Usage & spelling, punctuation spelling, spelling,
Mechanics punctuation or errors, minor punctuation or punctuation and
grammatical grammatical grammatical grammatical
errors. errors. errors. errors that in
interferes with
the meaning.
Questions?
Thank you