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6 Ways to Ask A Question in Google Classroom One reason I love Google Classroom is how easy it is. If you’ve ever sent an
Use Google Classroom to build relationships, provide more students a voice, and choice. Technology provides opportunities that are difficult or impossible to recreate with traditional paper methods. However, paperless is not a pedagogy. Being paperless does not improve learning. Use paper when appropriate and extend learning opportunities with digital resources when appropriate. Taking paper tasks and making them digital (ie: writing on a PDF worksheet) does not improve learning and can be worse for learning since it was designed for paper. Use paper for paper tasks. Use technology to do what paper can not do.

6 Ways to Ask A Question in Google Classroom One reason I love Google Classroom is how easy it is. If you’ve ever sent an

Switch From Suggesting Edits to Editing In Google Classroom, if you open a student document from Classroom it opens in the Feedback tool. For Google

To share your class code for Google Classroom I created a template in Google Draw. Make a copy of the template and type the class

Google Classroom participants are restricted to the domain. This means that in order to use Google Classroom you must be signed in with your school

Have Students Set Goals One researcher I particularly admire is Carol Dweck from Stanford (and author of the best selling book Mindsets.) One of the

Google Classroom: Find Classes Faster The class tiles are fixed in the order you created them. I have 2 hacks for helping you to locate

An easy way to have students start collaborating is to use Google Slides. Do not feel you need to create templates for students for every

Recently I was in a teacher’s classroom and she was showing off these awesome geometry town projects her students had created. She gleefully told me

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By Holly Clark Digital workflow has long been a problem for those trying to incorporate digital products into their classrooms. That was until Google Apps

Providing students an opportunity to initially respond digitally allows more student participation and gives every student a voice.
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Use the Confirmation Text in Google Forms What do students do AFTER they complete the Google Form? Take advantage of the confirmation text to direct

When assessing student work done in Google Docs it can be a challenge to know which student documents you have looked at and which ones

When students are in a breakout room you may want to have each group have a Google Slides for them to organize their conversations and

Yes, students should be collaborating. G Suite is designed around collaboration so this makes students working together a lot easier. Weirdly, Google Classroom is not
Google Classroom allows you organize and assign work to students. Classroom works as a digital dropbox to allow students to submit their digital work to the

If you have assignments that are ongoing, such as a journal, or assignments you want to refer back to, try linking to the previous assignment.

Link to Infographic in Google Draw Having a good workflow for assessing student work is essential. Here is my workflow for giving feedback through Google

Have Students Use their Webcam to Submit Work As Jon Corippo says “Everything is digital when you can take a picture of it.” You can

When creating assignments in Google Classroom as “Make a copy for each student” a copy of the document is made for each student… with the

Hold Down the Control Key Here is a handy digital literacy tip, hold down the Control key when you click on a link. (Command key

It’s rare for a school to have what I would describe as “Awesome Internet Speeds.” Even at my house where I have super fast internet

Duplicate the Chrome Tab for Google Classroom One of the joys of using cloud based products is that you can have the same document open

Note: This post contains screenshots from the old version of Google Classroom. This works essentially the same except that you will now go to the

Students Collaborating on a Spreadsheet Students working in the same spreadsheet, yes please. If you have students doing collaborative work on a spreadsheet my Add-on

UPDATE: Fall 2018 Google Classroom did a major redesign. Now when you return student work without a score the student’s assignment is returned to the

Win a One Year Subscription to Pear Deck It’s pretty universal, seeing Pear Deck and falling in love. It allows for making interactive lessons. Not

Google Classroom Improves Feedback Workflow Yesterday Google Classroom gave a pretty major update to the Google Classroom BETA. Now when you click on student work

Google Classroom just updated to allow you to reuse a post. I have already used this feature about 5 million times already. When reusing an

For Google Classroom you can bulk send missing assignments using Schoolytics.com. This is free for teachers and a huge time saver!
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