- Okay, so if you're using Google Classroom
and you want to create a class,
we're going to talk about what that means
and some settings that you want to get right along the way.
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Okay, so we're going to start out at Classroom.Google.com
And as you see this open area here
this is your home screen.
So if you're just learning Google Classroom,
you don't have to have anything else done.
You could just come in here, create a class,
see how it works.
So that's what we're gonna do.
So if you're creating one from scratch.
Here we go, go up into the upper right hand corner.
Left click on the plus sign and you have the option
to join a class which is not what we're doing,
we're creating a class.
So left click on create class.
And you'll get this pop-up window that has four options.
The first one is required, so what do we want to call it?
Let's give it a good name.
Math 101 is boring, right?
We're going to say, let's call it Fundamentals of Math.
And then the section is not a required field
but you can use something in here that might be helpful
to you like, say for example,
if it's first period or second period.
Let's just do that, let's just say
this is second period.
Subject is, let's just say math.
In the room.
We're calling all online, the room right now.
Left click on create.
And this is creating a class.
So this takes a little bit to think
about all the wonderful things that it's doing,
and it's going to, boom, show up.
There it is.
So you've created the class, we won't go into too much
how it works, those will come in later tutorials,
but let's still on the subject of creating the class,
there are some settings that we should keep
in mind so we'll go into the upper right hand corner,
left click on the gear icon.
This is what you just did,
so you can change them now if you want.
Remember if you change the name of the class,
the name of the associated Google Drive folder
will not change but you can change it if you want.
Let's refresh this.
There it is, Fundamentals of Maths, second period.
It actually picked up the name of the section as well.
Let's go back, so some of these things
that you can change, the class code,
if you don't like it for some reason,
maybe it has an I or a one and you think people
might not know which it is, you can just reset it.
Or you can disable it if you only want people
to be able to get into there, possibly from an email invite.
You don't want it there, just disable the class code.
We're gonna leave it on.
Here you will control how your stream issues
so similar to other social media,
there's a stream in the middle of the screen.
It's kind of an aggregation of the communications.
You can control who can post.
So you can say only teachers, or you can do,
kind of a middle ground where the students can comment,
only the teacher can create a post
but the students can comment on that post.
Or you can just let it all hang out
to the students and copy and post.
A couple other settings here that you can look at
when you create it, but an important one
is how you're going to grade it.
So you probably already know this,
and you need to translate it into Google Classroom.
So a few options here.
So if there's no overall grade,
maybe for whatever reason you don't want to grade it,
maybe you're going to grade it on your own outside
of Google Classroom, just choose this.
You could just create it straight-up total points.
So numerator denominator, or you could
have it weighted by category.
So if you choose weighted by category,
then you want to come down and add a grade category,
so you would left click here and choose,
I don't know, quiz, and then you would
add homework and whatever you want
and you would give those their weight here,
as long as it adds up to 100, that'll work.
And you can choose whether or not you
allow the students to see their grade.
So let's close this class settings.
And of course the most important thing
is that you want to select a theme, right?
Left click on math and science and instead of that one,
we're going to do this one.
So much different, so much better.
Maybe you like that, you could pick a picture that's
more meaningful to you so when you do select a theme,
you can just go right under there and do upload a photo.
You can just upload one from your computer
with this button or take one from your file system
and drag it onto here.
So now that you're created your class,
maybe you want to add some students to it.
So we're going to go over that this next video.