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Teaching with Google Classroom

To provide a step-by-step guide to setup and use Google Classroom

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|Oct 2016
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Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easier

Key Features

  • This is the first book to guide educators step by step through teaching with Google Classroom
  • It’s focused on you, your students, and providing great learning experiences easily
  • It’s easy to follow, with everything you need to get started and keep going even if you’re not a technology fan

Book Description

Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it’s already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It’s not just a manual, you’ll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class.

What you will learn

  • Create a Google Classroom and add customized information for each individual class
  • Add students to a Google Classroom
  • Send announcements and questions to students
  • Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments through Google Classroom
  • Add events to and share a Google Classroom's calendar with parents to track a student s progress
  • Reuse posts, archive classrooms, and perform other administrative tasks in Google Classroom
  • Use Google Docs Add-ons, and Google Chrome Webstore Apps and Extensions to enhance assignments
  • Set up Google Classroom's mobile app

Who this book is for

This is a book for educators who want to use Google Classroom to teach better. It’s not for geeks. There are rich examples, clear instructions, and enlightening explanations to help you put this platform to work.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting to know Your Google Classroom
  2. Inviting students to their Virtual Classroom
  3. Sending your first Announcement
  4. Online Discussion with Questions
  5. Handing out and Taking in Written Assignments
  6. Grading Written Assignments in a Flash
  7. Google Forms for Multiple Choice and Numeric Response Assignments
  8. Keeping Parents in the Loop
  9. Customizing to Your Subject
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-476-7
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 256