This video is a beginner's tutorial about Google Classroom, we will be discussing how
to create a Google class and the related features google classroom is free for Educational Institute,
when they get G Suite educational account, and then all the teachers from that Institute
can create Google classes.
So let's get started after a short break.
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In order to start google classroom, you just click on these nine dots and then you can
scroll down, and you will see this Google Classroom icon.
So if I click on this, it will open my Google classes and you can also type classroom.google.com
in your browser and you will reach this page.
If you have more than one account, make sure that you are in the correct account.
Now this plus button allows you to create or join a class.
If you are a student, you can join a class if you are a teacher, you can create your
new class.
And I will also be showing you from the student perspective how a student console differs
from a teacher's console.
So I have created this one class and I have enrolled one student, which is by using my
own account.
And I will be explaining you some of the features of this class because I have one assignment
created for you for this video.
First, let's see how you can create a new class, I just click on this plus and then
I click Create class.
And if your institute already has G Suite education account, you will not see this dialog
box.
Otherwise, you will see this message and you can just tick this box and continue.
No here you can provide some details about your class, the only thing which is required
is the class name, the rest of the three things are optional.
So let's say I call it our test class.
Because we will not be pursuing this I will use the other class to demonstrate you.
And then I click Create.
And now another class has been created.
And immediately you will reach the class page.
But if you want to see all your classes, you click on these three lines, and then classes.
And we have this new class created here.
And now I can click on this class and I will see this page there are four main tabs which
you have to learn in order to use Google Classroom.
And once you know how to work in these four tabs, you are good to go.
And we will be discussing all these one by one.
But first, let's have a look at some of the cosmetics, you can select a theme for your
class.
Currently we have this theme.
And if I click on select theme, I have few options.
For example, if I am a math or science teacher, so there are some themes for math and science
classes, I can select any of these.
Similarly for arts classes, and some general themes are also available.
I am happy with my default theme.
So I just cancel this, you can also upload a photo from your computer.
And you can also create a theme for in your Google drawings.
And in order to do that, you should know the size of this image.
And I think the size is 1000 pixel wide and 250 pixel height.
So you can use any image of this size as the theme of your class.
In order to enroll your students in this class, what you can do is you can click on this display
icon and it will display the class code if you are on a video conference with your students.
And then students can enter this code to join the class or you can invite them and in order
to invite them you click on the people tab.
And then you click on invite students.
And here you can write the email of your students and simply click in white.
And now as you can see that this is the invitation received by the student.
And if I click on that this is the class invitation.
And this is sent as a no reply email by Google.
And now let's go back to our classes.
And I will use this class for this video purpose.
I just wanted to show you how to create a class and if I click on this class, no by
default, I am in stream 10.
Now during this video, I will be showing you some of the good practices of using Google
Classroom.
And one of those practices is that you should use the stream tab as your announcement tab.
What happens is that if you don't do anything with your settings if you don't create proper
folders inside your classroom, then whatever you post on your class will be shown in stream
tab.
As you can see that I have posted a message then I posted in an assignment.
And all these are coming in the stream tab.
And very quickly, your stream tab will be full of various things, your messages, your
announcements, your assignments and these kind of things.
So the best practice is that you put your assignments in folders and folders are called
topics in Google Classroom.
And I will be showing you in a minute.
But first, let's see, if you want to post something in this tab how to do that very
simple, you just click here, and you can post any message.
And I can make changes, I can also add some attachment.
And this attachment I can add from my Google Drive, I can send them any link.
For example, as an extra material, I can attach a file from my computer, or I can also attach
a YouTube video.
So these are various things you can attach with your post in the stream tab.
So let's cancel this.
Now let's move on to the classwork tab.
And this is the place where most of the time you will be working.
You can see a Create button here.
And this is because I am a teacher.
So let's see, from a student perspective, what are the differences.
So this is my student account, and I am in the coursework tab.
And I don't have any Create button here because I am just a student in the steam tab.
If the teacher has allowed me to comment, I have the ability to post something.
But I will show you how to stop students from commenting.
I would not suggest that you stop students from commenting.
But you can do that.
Because I think that students should be able to comment.
And they should be given a chance to say something in this stream tab of your classroom.
No, let's click on the people tab for a student.
And as you can see, that student has no ability to add any people in this class.
While if I go to the teachers tab, and I click on this people tab, I can add a teacher to
this class, I can also add a student to this class, I also have a fourth tab, which is
grade step where I can grade my students, this is my student, and I can grade them.
But as a student, I don't have this fourth tab, I only have these three tabs.
So these are some of the differences which you would have guessed already, but I wanted
to show you.
Now let's go to the stream tab of my student.
And as you can see that there is an assignment which I have created.
And if I click on that assignment as a student, it is showing me some suggestions here that
I can talk to my teacher.
And here I have various options.
These are some of the details of my assignment.
And these are some of the rubrics and rubrics means that these are some extra instructions
for the students that how they will be graded.
And I am going to discuss this in my teachers account in order for you to understand how
you create these rubrics, and what is the purpose of this but as a student, if I click
here, I can see some of the instructions given by my teacher.
For example, there are two level of this rubrics.
And this rubric is about providing accurate information in the assignment.
And I'm telling the student that you will get two points, which is the level one which
is the top level if you provide accurate information.
And you will get one point which is level two, if there are some minor inaccuracies.
And also I have created another rubric for the student because the students have to write
an essay and I'm asking them to discuss two options.
So I'm telling them that if you discuss two options, you will get two points.
If you discuss one option in detail, you will only get one point there is another rubric.
And this rubric has three levels at level one, they will get six points at level two,
they will get three points at level three, they will get only two points.
And these are some of the details how they can get six points.
Three points are two points.
And I will shortly discuss these rubrics as a teacher as well.
Now students have the ability to add or create.
So if students click on Add or create no for example, if these students have to write an
essay, which is described here, they can create a Google document and start writing the essay.
So no need for any papers, all they can do is that they can open a Google document in
their Google Drive and they can start creating essays.
I can also comment on your pre submitted work as well, because I will be able to see the
progress of the students.
So this is all students have the ability to do the assignments in Google Docs.
And then once done, they can mark this work as done and teacher will get the notification
and they can then grade these students.
So these are paperless activities and they don't have to worry about saving anything.
Everything is already saved.
Now let's go back to the teachers account.
And now I show you how to create assignments, and what type of things you can create in
this course work tab, which is the most important tab.
And no again, one best practice, I would like to highlight that you can create topics, which
are the folders, essentially, based on the weeks of your class.
So for example, this is week one.
And this starts from sixth of April to 10th of epic.
So I have created a topic here.
And I should have created this assignment within this topic, so that it would be easier
for students to understand that this assignment belongs to week one.
And another good practice is that at the start of the week, you put all your assignments
in week one, topic or week one folder, first have a look in order to create an assignment.
And then I will discuss how to organize those assignments in topics.
So to do that, you click on Create and now you have a lot of options, you can create
an assignment, you can create a quiz assignment, you can create a question, you can create
a material.
So in material, you can store some extra material for your students such as PDFs, your Google
documents, files created in Google documents, or also links to website and all those things
which we have discussed.
You can also reuse one of your previous posts as well.
And you can create a topic as well, which is one of the best way to handle an online
class in Google Classroom.
Now we are going to create an assignment.
And now you can put a title some description, you can put a due date, you can put this assignment
in any of your topics or folder.
So this is how you create an assignment.
I will close this because I don't want to type too much.
So what I will do instead is I will show this assignment so that I can avoid some typing.
So here, let me edit this assignment.
And if I edit, and no, I can give this assignment, any topic.
So let's click here.
And I put this assignment in this folder.
So if I now select this topic, and click Save.
And now if I click on this folder or this topic, I can see that my assignment is inside
week one.
So this is the best way to organize your assignments.
So let's go back to edit this assignment.
And this time, I would like to show you few more features.
So let's say I click add here.
And now I can add any document from my Google Drive and link to our website, any file on
my computer or any YouTube video.
And if I click on Create, I can even create a document state from within my assignment.
And now a new Google document has been created from within my assignment.
So I just want to close this.
And now I would like to show you how to create a rubric.
So this is the rubric I have created.
So if I click on this rubric, this is the rubric which I have discussed before from
a student perspective.
And now you can see from a teacher perspective, that how it looks and if for example, I want
to add another level, I will click on these three dots and then edit false.
And now I have these plus signs appear here.
So for example, let's say I want to change the level of marking here for this particular
rubric.
So I can add another level.
For example, zero marks that if you do this mistake, you will get zero marks.
So if I click here, I will get another label and I can put some information here for the
student.
So this is how you create different rubrics and their labels to give your students an
idea how to do that particular assignment.
And if you want to add another criteria for the grading, you simply click here and you
will be able to add another rubric to your assignment.
So let's close this.
If I want to discard the changes, I can simply click on discard.
If I want to delete this document from my assignment, I can simply remove this from
here.
And no as you can see that in my first week I have this assignment.
And there is another extra or topic which I have created before as an assignment.
So I can simply delete this from here.
And I know my class is much more organized because my assignment is inside my first week.
So this was a tutorial about Google Classroom.
And now it's a series of tutorial because I recently made a video about video conferencing
software and why they are not sufficient for online teaching.
And I recommended learning management systems.
So I got a lot of questions about which learning management system is better.
I personally use Canvas, but there are many other learning management systems and all
are good google classroom is Also our learning platform.
But there are Blackboard Litmus Moodle.
There are so many all these learning management systems are equally good.
You can use any of them, it's only your personal choice.
Or maybe you might feel one Learning Management System easier to use than other.
So I don't recommend any particular one.
All are good.
So I will be making videos about all these learning management systems.
If I could not cover anything in this video, which I have forgotten or I missed something,
please put in the comments and I will make another video or I will reply you in the comments.
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