Teacher time-saver alert: You can now import grades from Google Forms Quizzes directly into #GoogleClassroom https://t.co/mD2rXIq96t pic.twitter.com/5vitvpSAHW
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Thanks to Mark Herring for sharing this one on twitter. Amazingly useful for teachers.
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Click on the button below to listen to a podcast (audio) on how Google Classroom can make life a whole lot easier. It covers some of the questions below.
Alice Keeler is a teacher on special assignment at ACEL charter high school, adjunct professor California State University Fresno, Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator, curriculum designer, consultant, speaker, presenter. An expert in educational technology Alice innovates instruction through gamification, redesigning classroom space and blended learning.
Below are the instructions for archiving your google classrooms from last year. Then you will have a clean slate to create your new ones for this year. Some people prefer to keep the classrooms from the previous year and reuse them, that is absolutely fine, you can go into the students tab and remove all of last years students. However the new students when they join will be able to see the whole stream of announcements etc. I prefer to start anew! If you need to you can easily access archived classrooms at any time.
Other Instructions:
On the 31st October PD afternoon, Raewyn Donnell ran a google drive, docs and classroom session for beginners. She has put a range of instruction sheets together on various skills and tools within the google drive and docs environment. While her session was for beginners, some of the instructions are still useful for those more experienced staff to have a look at, in particular the one on voice typing. These are listed below
So one of the recent google classroom updates is the ability to invite parents to see what their daughters are doing on google classroom. It enables them to see daily and weekly summaries of what their child has accomplished, and view any class announcements. Below is an example of the summary a parent would receive. It shows work that is incomplete and what work is coming up that has already been set by a teacher. It also shows what work has been completed for each class during the week.
So here's the thing, do we want to go down this road? I'm a little conflicted on this one. On one hand I believe students need to learn to be responsible for completing their work, for which there are natural consequences if they don't. In other words, they won't understand concepts they need to and this could of course affect them come test/exam/assignment time. However on the flip side it might be useful for parents to see what their daughters are doing and support them in making good time management choices. And of course it could pre-empt those discussions during parent teacher interviews of parents saying that their daughters never seem to have any homework (which is often not actually the case!!!) It would obviously give parents an insight into how education has changed and how students now have a variety of tools at their disposal to help them. In addition to showing them just how much work NCEA requires students to do!! In many ways our NZ Curriculum and indeed the Ministry of Education want us to create strong school to home communication and relationships. Would this feature enable us to do this better? Then begs the question would parents even want it? Would every teacher want to do it? Or should we only do it for parents whose daughers are struggling? Lots of unanswered questions! So I thought it time to get you all involved in thinking about and commenting on this. I encourage you to reply to this post with your thoughts on this matter. Should we think about using this feature or not? Please get involved in the conversation, a collaborative discussion on this ethical decision is quite important. This will be an absolute game changer in our teaching programs. Google's latest update will soon allow students and teachers using the google apps on a MOBILE DEVICE (Ipad and Android tablet apps) to annotate, highlight, and draw freehand into a google doc. So what does this actually mean? Well, basically students can draw diagrams freehand into a google doc. Teachers will also be able to write and draw freehand on those student docs (exactly in the same way as you would on a piece of work on paper.)
The inability to draw diagrams and pictures that can't easily be created through adding shapes has held google apps back for some subjects. This change will allow students to not just create diagrams, complete brainstorms and in general take hand written notes if they chose but it may also help those subjects like Science and Maths that use subscripts and superscripts in equations. Students will also be able to show their workings for mathematical and science equations. This is a very similar type of software that will most likely be seen in some external digital examinations in coming years (starting for some subjects in 2018 - majority by 2020). So it is great for our students to be able to become familiar with this style of working prior to digital examinations. While at this stage it is only available to those on mobile devices and not laptops, I am sure google will be working hard on rolling it out on laptops as well. The gif (animated image) below shows this in action through a google classroom assignment.
This ability in google classroom will save both teachers and students a lot of time and definitely paper if done well. It is a purposeful use of technology in that students can then utilise their laptops to complete work and you have the ability to comment and view their work at any time. When we refer to assignment, it can be any task/worksheet/assignment you would like students to complete.
To set a google classroom assignment you must use a google doc/sheet/slides. If you are wanting to use an old task you have on a word document you will need to convert it first. This is easy and very quick, instructions are below:
Once you have done this you are ready to go. The instructions below can be viewed in a larger screen by clicking here. A video explanation by Darcey Leech can be found here. Google Classroom has offered options for asking questions for quite a while. Today, Google released a new way to ask questions. You can now post multiple choice poll questions in your Google Classroom classrooms. This blog post is written by Richard Byrne and can be viewed in full on his website 'Free Technology For Teachers'.
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