hi there jamie keate here today at teachers tech hope you're having a great day today
today i have 10 quick google classroom tips for you to make sure that you're
leveraging google classroom as much as you can
tip number one is about helping you organize your stream in google classroom so if you're
new to google classroom what i mean is the stream if you look up top here there's this tab now this
shows everything that people post from the classroom or you could have comments from students
going back and forth and i know i've made classes before and haven't modified this and get a lot
of students commenting before i've set any rules on it so tip number one is about making sure you
uh have your settings for this stream and where you go to do this is go up to the settings gear
right up top here just open that up and you can see if i go down into general and into stream
here we have some options usually when i start a class i always i'll put it to this only teachers
can post or comment and then as different students understand maybe the rules of collaboration
then i can change it you can see students can only comment students can post and comment so
you can you can change that the other thing is to think about how do you want your assignment
so when you post an assignment it will go into the stream again it can get overwhelming for
a lot of students and then if you come down to here and just drop down you can see show
attachments and details we could show condensed notifications or hide notifications to this also
if you're a teacher you can see uh you can show deleted items but that only works for the teachers
so make sure that this is kind of set before you give your invite to the students or
invite or give the code to them to join in it could save you a lot of hassle down the road
tip number two is about helping you manage your email because if you if you use google classroom
before or if you haven't this is an important tip you can get a lot of different emails that
you might not want from notifications of what the activity is happening in google classroom
so this time i'm going to go up to the top left here click on this and open it up check out this
settings here now if i open this up we can see that there's email notifications and this is where
you can customize this so you could turn off email notifications notice everything disappeared after
that so you're not gonna get emails but you can go through and customize this uh how you want to
really only get the emails that you want because like i said you can get too many emails that will
get your inbox all cluttered up from things that you don't really need so take a look at this in
the settings and adjust it the way that would work best for you tip number three is about making sure
that the most important information is getting put at top of the stream or making sure that students
can readily see this like i said the stream can get really overcrowded if it's not managed
right but look at this so these are different assignments maybe you want the assignments to stay
at the top if you click these three one of these three little buttons i'm going to move down look
at this move to top so if i choose that that will change the order to the top so if you want to make
sure something's staying to the top so students can see it that when they get into their classroom
it'll be right in front of them because if you don't it will get moved down as you go more and
more and more you can also do this in class work so if i go over to classwork if you are getting
a lot of different resources remember you can move these around just by dragging and dropping
them and there is the move up or move down in here but for a stream like i said before this
is the part that gets get a little confusing to new new students using this where there's so much
information you want to keep that most important thing on top that they need easy access to
tip number four is about helping increase student engagement using google classroom and how i like
to do this if i go over to classwork here if with many of you probably created assignments
take advantage of the question because you can ask a student you can ask the students a question so
i'm going to go ahead and click on this and i'll just put a silly question in what is the best
ice cream you can choose multiple choice or short answer on the way i'm just going to leave this as
a short answer watch out what i want you to take a look at you can change this just to ungraded
but if you look down here students can reply to each other so even if they were at home working
on something you could have a discussion before they get back to class where you
could even get richer questions back to you so try asking a question to see if that helps with
increased engagement using google classroom number five is a super quick tip and that's a quick way
to email everybody in the class so what we do is go up to people here and here are the three people
in this example class i have but if i go ahead and just click this notice the drop down on the
actions i can go and mute them remove them but i can also email so i go click on email it will just
pick all those names and put them in an email you can see here in their bcc to each of the students
and i can go ahead and write my message and send it to all the people that i select tip number six
is about differentiation so whether it be in the announcements or the assignments you can choose
who gets what let's do this as a little practice with an announcement so i'm just going to announce
something to my class a lot of times people think you have to announce it to everyone if i send a
message here i could post it and it would go to all students and if i look at this i can select
what students i want so i don't need to send it so i can select if i only wanted to go to one
and then that message would go to that so that's in the announcements but also in assignments i'll
just discard that if i go to create an assignment you'll be able to see that the same thing is here
so maybe you have different assignments for different students you don't have to send it to
everyone so this way you can differentiate and let not let all the students know how who's getting
what assignments from you from google classroom the other thing i wanted to point out and this is
the next tip is that you can assign to multiple classes or announce to multiple classes so just
like this if you drop down here if you're teaching more than one class you can select that this goes
to two classes this assignment and the same thing with your announcements so if i close out of this
go back to stream and i go to this here and i go to announce something again you can see
i can announce it to multiple classes so this will save you time when management managing your google
classrooms tip number eight is another google classroom management tip that can save you a lot
of time now i'm gonna go back over to classwork the tab here and i'm gonna go to create and take
advantage of the reuse post in google classroom if i go ahead and click reuse post this will go
through all the different classes i have so if i go back you can see i could go to a specific class
in this now i could go through and pick a question announcement everything is there material so you
don't have to re-upload and rewrite everything again so even if it was a quiz i could pick a quiz
pick reuse and this is going to pop up here and when it pops up then you can make any adjustments
that you need but in this case that you could keep everything uh everything the same and then
you could go over to any adjustments that you need on the right hand side and then go ahead
and assign it tip number nine is about using rubrics in google classroom so if you haven't
tried this before they're quite easy to set up so if i go ahead and i'm just going to pick an
assignment that i've already created here and i'm going to click edit assignment and you can see on
the right hand side here it says rubric i'm going to go ahead and click on this you can create a
rubric reuse so once you've created your rubrics you can reuse them again you can even import them
from sheet so if you've created rubrics and google sheets you can bring them over for this example
i'm just going to go ahead and hit create and then you can see right away are you using scoring
or not so if if you didn't want to use any scoring you can go ahead and turn this off now you can add
different criteria down below just by clicking so you can have more and i can keep adding and then
we can add more levels so if i go add across we can add more and more levels and we can fill in
the information in the title to each one and then put the description you can delete these levels
too if you click these three little dots and just like this and they'll go away go and hit the save
button and then that rubric will be attached to the assignment and then you can reuse it over and
over again tip number 10 and my final tip today is about giving a quiz so if i go over to classwork
and i'm going to go create and quiz assignment so this is going to create a google form
with this so you can see it's creating the google form here what i just want to point out to you is
i'm going to click on this google form when you go through and create your questions so
you could go through and you know you could give it a question and everything what i want to just
point out is click this little required button here because then they won't be able to submit the
uh the quiz until each one is answered so maybe they forgot one and they tried to submit it or
it just gets them to answer the question making sure that they've gone through all of them so i
hope these 10 tips have helped you out if you're brand new to google classroom i have a i have
a tutorial for that that i'll put down to a link down below in the description let me know how you
use google classroom in other ways you'd like to learn about it thanks for watching this
week on teachers tech i'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials