Google Certified Educator – Level 1 – CHECK!
It’s official – I have completed the Google Certified Educator Level 1 Testing.
I will be completing the Level 2 testing as soon as the exam is made available to me!!
Google Classroom – Handing in Late Assignments
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!
NEVER Miss an Assignment Again!
THIS IS A GAME CHANGER FOR TEACHERS.
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!)
Check out this video. You won’t be sorry!
Grading Assignments and Offering Formative Assessment in Google Classroom
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).
Giving an Assignment in Google Classroom
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.
Second Google Classroom Tutorial
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.
Introduction to Google Classroom
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.