Help!! I have a YouTube Channel and now that I have traffic incoming on a regular basis, the HOME screen says the channel has no content. When a newcomer arrives at my YouTube Channel the words on the screen read This Channel Has No Content.
I had this problem. I searched many times and tried a number of different things to solve it. Many of the fixes were a couple years old and did not, indeed, fix the problem. It turned out to be a really easy solution, and one that puts the control of the channel in the hands of the person running the channel. Here’s a quick video showing how to control the content that appears on your channel’s home page.
Late assignments. It happens. So, what do you do when a student has a late assignment to hand in? Or, if you’re a student, what do you do if the deadline has come and gone and you’ve not turned in your work?
This tutorial addresses how this works, and identifies what is presently a gap in Google Classroom’s inner workings. When a student logs into their dashboard, they do not receive any alerts that there is work missing! Teachers – please let Google know that this needs to be adjusted!! (They are software engineers. They need our feedback on this stuff!)
In any case, handing in late assignments is easy. This tutorial will show you how!
Remind (formerly Remind 101) is one of the great tech tools for teachers out there. When parents and students register using your class code (this can be done via text, or through Remind’s own app for smartphones – the user can choose their preferences), teachers can send reminders out via text regarding classroom happenings.
The thing is, your remind codes start to become part of your day-to-day teaching experience. They’re on your course outline, newsletters, booklets – pretty soon they’re everywhere and you don’t want to be changing the code each year.
Clearing our last year’s students so that you can reuse your codes is incredibly easy. Here is a 1:22 video showing you how to “clean house” so you’re ready for this school year!!
I’m serious!! With this feature of Google Classroom, you, the teacher will never find yourself empty-handed again. It works for word-processed documents, google sheets and google slide presentations. (This can also include work that students collaborate on, they just have to choose “whose” document they are going to work on.
Even if a student doesn’t finish an assignment.
Even if they don’t hand it in to you.
Even if it is totally finished and they forget to hand it in to you.
It’s not possible for them to have lost it – it’s in Google Drive!
Even if they just grunt when you ask them what their plans are for finishing it…
SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING. And as a teacher, you will never have “nothing” again (unless, of course, the student for-real does nothing, and that’s rare!)
Today we will take a quick peek at how a teacher can grade assignments in Google Classroom, and how formative assessment can be carried out. While the examples shown are very surface so as to keep the video moving along quickly, the private conversations between student and teacher can be very robust within this Distributed Learning environment.
We will also take a peek at the Google Drive Folder and its contents to illustrate how the teacher has a coy that remains in their Google Drive (even if a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment).
The past two blog posts and videos have taken care of the basic setup of a class within the Google Classroom environment. Today we are going to tackle the very simple task of creating an assignment for one of our classes.
As you will see in the video, it’s incredibly easy, and one assignment can be deployed to multiple classes simultaneously (which is superb for teachers like me who may have 7 instances of the same class – I teach CTF 7 to seven different classes each year).
The video also shows you what your students will see when they log in to view and submit their first assignment. It’s not easy to assist students with their challenges if you haven’t seen the actual process yourself, so I’ve taken about four minutes within the video to demonstrate what students will experience when they access Google Classroom to view and submit an assignment.
Today we need to add out students into our newly created class in Google Classroom. It’s easily done – either by the teacher inviting students (if you have a superstar technician, this may be integrated with your SIS Database [Powerschool in my division]) or by giving students a random access code that they enter to gain access to your classroom.
The tutorial starts out in the teacher dashboard, then at about 2:10 takes on the student perspective of registering in a course, then returns to the teacher dashboard to illustrate how the students have populated a class list by registering.
Here is a the first of a series of video tutorials that I will be creating as the new school year approaches to assist you with setting up and making the best use of the Google Classroom Environment.
Google classroom can assist you with easily creating a distributed learning environment, completing formative assessments and staying on top of which of your students are missing assignments. We will work through those aspects of Classroom over the next couple weeks. Tonight we’ll start with how to set up your first class in Google Classroom.
Note: All accounts used for these tutorials are fake. As is addressed at the start of this video, a random name generator was used to create the accounts, and any assignments or work that appears to be turned in to illustrate the inner workings of Google Classroom in the future will be created by me for the purposes of these demonstrations. No real student work will be used for these video tutorials.
Dr. Jane McGonigal inspires me. What she sees in games, and in gamers inspires me to consider how that can inform pedagogical adjustments. I’m not proposing we throw out everything in favour of games; but I find it hard to ignore her statement that “Gamers are super-empowered hopeful individuals”. I see gamers come through my computer lab by the hundreds each year, and I am inclined to agree with that statement.
Her observations further include that gamers encompass:
Urgent Optimism
Social Fabric (they network and collaborate naturally)
Blissful Productivity
Epic Meaning
I encourage everyone to spend twenty minutes watching her most excellent TED talk – and understand that it is from 2010. Consider what has changed in your own world since this talk was given.
