Google Classroom was created in August 2014 as a way to make it easier for teachers to create and manage online courses. The system is designed to help teachers track student progress, assign and grade exams, and share course materials with students.

Google Classroom is available to teachers of any level of experience. It is free to use, and there is no need to create a separate account. Teachers can create and manage their courses using the web browser, Google Docs, or a third-party application such as Adobe Connect.

Google Classroom is popular among educators because of its ease of use and its wide range of features. Some of the features that make Google Classroom a powerful learning management system include the following:

-Track student progress: Google Classroom includes tools for tracking student progress, such as grades and test scores. This information can help you track whether your students are learning the material and whether they are meeting your expectations.

-Assign and grade exams: Google Classroom includes tools for assigning and grading exams. This makes it easy to manage your course exams and ensure that your students are receiving a fair grades.

-Share course materials: Google Classroom includes tools for sharing course materials with students. This makes it easy to distribute course materials, such as lectures and slides, online.

-Offer online tutoring: Google Classroom includes tools for offering online tutoring. This makes it easy to provide assistance to your students.

Google Classroom is a powerful learning management system that can help you create and manage online courses. It is free to use, and there is no need to create a separate account. Teachers can create and manage their courses using the web browser, Google Docs, or a third-party application such as Adobe Connect.

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The administrators, on the other hand, have a task ahead of them. They have a whole Google Classroom to master and challenges to conquer. They must keep everything running smoothly. I am here to make life a little easier today. Here are four ways for K—12 administrators to master Google Classroom.

1. Give Users Access to the Content on Google Classroom at Their Convenience

Teachers need to practice their lessons. Not being able to practice and learn the system before using it in the classroom creates nervousness and a feeling of inadequacy. When teaching an unfamiliar lesson (or even a familiar lesson) with an unfamiliar software in an unfamiliar setting, teachers have difficulty teaching strongly and authoritatively. They quickly lose the interest of students. Students’ grades fall with their attention.

However, when teachers are given reign of Google Classroom to practice at their convenience, they feel more confident in the classroom. They can teach like the pro they are and keep the children on track.

2. Effectively Communicate with the Teachers, Parents, and Students

Communicating with parents in Google Classroom is simple. Administrators can have their teachers send out surveys using the Assignment tool in Google Classroom. Teachers can provide feedback in real-time and share agendas or request input. Lastly, teachers can use customizable class work features to post some questions in the classrooms, enhancing communication.

3. Organize Resources for Faculty and Student Use

Students and teachers can get lost searching for documents and other resources online. However, an administrator can quickly post links to a shared organizational resource page using the class workstream. 

The organizational page would merely be a Google Doc that the administrator has made shareable. In the Google Doc, he only needs to organize the hyperlinks to each resource and priority document.

4. Create Assignments and Streamline Them with Online Tools

Google Classroom has a stream for posting to. In this stream, administrators can create assignments and schedule them to post later, very much like on Facebook. 

Google Classroom’s stream also has a Topics tool. This tool has a drag and drop feature, which allows you to drag high-priority posts to the top of the stream so that staff does not have to search for them.

Conclusion 

Google Classroom is an excellent tool beyond merely using it for a remote classroom. It’s usable for so many more great things! With these great tools built into Google Classroom, administrators can work with their teachers to make their days in the classroom go more smoothly. However, these tools won’t help if administrators don’t use them effectively, and the four tips shared in this article will help the administrator do this. Therefore, with these four tips, K—12 administrators can master Google Classroom.

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One option while working on an assignment, is to click on the drop-down arrow next to where it says ‘Assign’, and select ‘Save as draft’. However, if you are in the middle of creating an assignment and exit out of it for any reason, it will automatically be saved as a draft and you can come back to it later to finish it. 

Here is an example of an assignment that has not been finished or posted yet:

Next to the word “Assignment” in the top left corner is an “X”. If you click it, you will be exited out of the assignment and will be brought back to the “Classwork” tab.  Here, you will see it was saved as a “Draft”. 

You can even log out and come back later, and it will still be there. Click on “Edit Assignment” and you can go back in and finish creating the assignment at your leisure. 

You also can click next to where it says “Draft” and the ellipsis (three dots) will appear and give an option to delete. If you want to get rid of the draft, click on delete and it will erase it for you.

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1. Click on the “Grades” tab to open your grade book.
2. Click on any assignment title, and then go to the Settings icon in the right-hand corner and select “Copy all grades to Google Sheets”.

3. A spreadsheet will automatically be generated for you, using the data from your Google Classroom grade book, and will open up on your screen for you to view.

Why would I want to create a spreadsheet? 

• To have a printable version for your records  
• Share a copy with your administrator to discuss student progress
• Make a copy with only a particular student’s info visible, and share it with their parent during a conference
• Add additional student info
• Automatically calculates student grade average

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1. Sign up

After you go to classroom.google.com, you can use Classroom by logging in using a G suite email address or using it without “claiming” to use it for education. Everything works just fine that way too. It is just harder to manage your learners if you have hundreds of them. You will add them one by one, which can be very time-consuming.

2. Create your first Class

Click on the “+” button, which is located in the right upper corner. Choose to “Create a class.” Here, you fill in information about your Class. Write down an amazing class name and section. Then click on “Create.”

3. Invite learners to your Class

Once you have developed your Class, you can invite your learners. Let learners sign in using the Google Classroom app by entering the unique code you give them. You will find the class code in your developed Classroom. Go to the tab “People” and under “Students” it will list your class code. Another option is to invite your learners one by one by entering their email address. One thing you must keep in mind: your learners need to have a G Suite for education email or a  Google email address.

You can also let your learners go to classroom.google.com. Learners can click on “Join class,” enter the classroom code, and that’s it. This might be a bit quicker as you don’t have to manually type in every learner’s email address. 

Now your online Class is ready! At least, it is there, and everyone can access it. There are several other things you must do before you can take off.

• Create your first assignment, or you make an announcement. You can share the initial announcement in the Stream, or go to Classwork to create an assignment. Click on the “+ Create” button and disseminate your first Google Classroom learning activity (assignment). Don’t forget to number your learning activities (assignments). It is easier for your learners to see which one comes first as you are unable to reorder learning activities (assignments) in the Stream. You can move learning activities (assignments) around to the top. Click on the title to determine if any learners have handed in the learning activity (assignment) and give grades and feedback. Afterward, you can return the learning activities (assignments) to your learners to start editing again.

• Add lesson content to your learning activity (assignment)/ class. Add content from Google Drive or add a video, a file, a link, etc. These options can be found right beneath the due date. If you just want to share a class presentation that is not linked to a learning activity (assignment), you can post it on the Stream instead of under the Classwork tab. You can add lesson content such as slides, interesting articles, and examples. 

• Access the Drive folder. Every time you create a class, Google Classroom creates a Drive folder for that Class. You can access the folder by going to the tab “Classwork”. You will find a folder icon titled “Class Drive Folder” on the right-hand side. Click on it, and you’re in the folder. Here you can add class content too. All your learner’s learning activities (assignments) automatically end up in the Google Drive folder, so it will always be easy to locate.

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1. To delete a class, you must first Archive it. Go to the Classes homepage, and hover over the Class you want to delete. Click on the ellipsis (three dots) and select “Archive” from the drop-down menu.

2. A pop up will appear, asking if you are sure you want to archive this Class. Click “Archive”

3. Next, go to the menu on the side of your homepage, and select “Archived Classes”

4. The Class you just archived will appear. Click on the ellipsis (three dots) and select “Delete”.

5. A pop up will appear asking if you are sure you want to delete this Class. Select “Delete” if you are sure, and it will be erased.

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To access it from Google Classroom,  go to the “Classwork” tab and it will be located in the right corner next to an icon of a file folder, and will be titled “Class Drive Folder”. 

To access it from your Google Drive, login to your Drive by going to drive.google.com.  Once it opens up, click on “My Drive” on the left-hand side. 

There will be a section titled “Folders”, and here you will see a folder title “Classroom”. Click here and this will take you to all the drive folders for each of your Google Classrooms ( if you have more than one Class). The title of the folder will match the title of your Class. Here is an example below:

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To select a theme, go to the homepage of your Classroom, and you will see a colorful rectangular box that lists the class title and class code. In the bottom left corner, it says “Select theme”. Click on it to pull up your options.

Pick out the theme that represents your Class best, and then press “ Select class theme”, located at the bottom right corner. It will automatically update to show your new theme on the home page.

If you do not like any of the theme choices, you also have the option to drag and drop an image or upload it from your computer. You could use a personal photo, a class photo, or an image from the internet. To choose this option, go to the homepage and on the title and class code section, you will see  “Upload photo”.

Click on it and this screen will appear:

You can drag a photo and release it, or click on “Select a photo from your computer”.  A  menu of your files will appear.

Highlight the file you want to use and press “Open”. It will begin loading the image you selected:

After it has loaded, you will be directed to crop it. Press “Select class theme” at the bottom left corner once you have decided how you want to crop the photo. It will automatically upload it to your homepage. 

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• Title: Here is where you write the title of your assignment. Don’t repeat titles- it will make it confusing for your learners to tell assignments apart. Make sure the title makes sense and correlates with what the assignment is about. 
• Instructions: They are not mandatory. Add any information that your learners should know about their assignments. This could be a good place to add tips or reminders to help students do their best. A reminder could be a statement such as, “Don’t forget to look over your work and make corrections before turning it in.”
• Add: Add something from your Google Drive, a Link, a File, or a video.  This function helps you to add content that will help learners complete their assignment, or better understand the learning goal. This could be a video that contains the steps to solving math problems on their assignment, or a graphic organizer to help them organize their thoughts.  Enrich the learning process with this feature.
• Develop: This is where you can develop a new Doc, Slide, Sheet, Drawing, or Form. Create the perfect assignment and then it can be easily uploaded as a new assignment.
• For: An assignment will automatically post in the Google Classroom you are working in. You can assign one assignment to several Google Classrooms using this drop-down menu if you have multiple Classrooms. It will also post to all learners, but you can choose to assign a post to individual learners or small groups of learners using the drop-down menu. 
• Points: You can give your assignments any number of points or have an assignment be ungraded. By default, the app assigns 100 points to assignments. 
• Due: You can add a deadline and a time an assignment needs to be turned in by.  This will help students stay on task and know what the deadline is. You can also select “no due date” if you want to allow students to take their time without the added pressure of the due date. This depends on the learner and the assignment.
• Topics: You can place an assignment under a topic. Topics are good ways to organize assignments. This is optional though, and you can choose “no topic” if you do not want to separate your assignments by topics. 
• Rubric: You can develop a rubric for your assignment within Google Classroom or upload your own. Rubrics are a great way for students to self-assess their work, and Google Classroom makes it easy to add them to any assignment.

Once you’re ready to assign your post, click “Assign” in the upper right-hand corner of the page. This will post your assignment. Not ready to assign it yet? You can schedule the assignment to post at whatever time you like! Just click the down arrow to the right of “Assign” and click “schedule.” Google Classroom will ask you to select a date and time to schedule your assignment to post.

This is great for when you are working ahead and have several assignments ready to go, but do not want to overwhelm your students with too much work at once. 

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1. Sign in to your Google Classroom account, and click on the + sign in the right-hand corner. Select ”Create class”.

2. A pop up will show and you will fill in the information, including class name, section, room, and subject. Only the name of your Class is required, the other info is optional. Be sure to pick a relevant, concise name for your Class that makes sense. Click create. 

3. Click on the “People” tab and add your learners by entering their email address. Remember to indicate what permissions you want these learners to have about posting and commenting. If you have a large class, this could take a while. You can also add learners by having them enter the class code themselves. You can find the class code listed at the bottom of the “People” tab, as well as in the settings under the “General” section. 

4. Access your Stream tab. Make an announcement to your Class. You will notice that you can attach a file, a document from Google Drive, a YouTube video, or a link to another resource.

5. Go to the Classwork tab to create an initial learning activity (assignment) for this Class. Add in the title, description, and give it a deadline. Attach any resources and assign the learning activity (assignment) to learners enrolled in this Class.

6. Your Class should now be ready to go. Time to get the learners involved and working on their first assignment! 

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