Tool in Education Technoloy Classroom is a free web service for learners, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google Account. Cl...
Tool in Education Technoloy
Classroom is a free web
service for learners, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google Account.
Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and
outside of schools.
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Benefits:
Easy setup—Teachers
can set up a class, invite students and co-teachers. In the class stream, they
then share information—assignments, announcements, and questions.
Saves time and paper—Teachers can create classes, distribute assignments,
communicate, and stay organized, all in one place.
Better organization—Students can see assignments on the To-do page, in the class
stream, or on the class calendar. All class materials are automatically filed
into Google Drive folders.
Enhanced communication and feedback—Teachers can create assignments, send
announcements, and instantly start class discussions. Students can share
resources with each other and interact in the class stream or by email. Teachers
can also quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and give direct,
real-time feedback and grades.
Works with apps you use—Classroom works with Google Docs, Calendar, Gmail, Drive, and
Forms.
Affordable and secure—Classroom is free. Classroom contains no ads, never uses your
content or student data for advertising purposes.
You can access Classroom using the web on a computer with any
browser, such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari. In general,
Classroom supports major browser releases on a continual basis.
Summary of activities in google classroom:
User
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What you can do with
Classroom
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Teachers
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Create and manage classes, assignments, and grades.
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Give direct, real-time feedback and grades.
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Students
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Keep track of classwork and materials.
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Share resources and interact in class stream or by email.
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Submit assignments.
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Get feedback and grades.
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Guardians
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Get an email summary of their student’s
work. This summary includes information about missing work, upcoming
assignments, and class activity.
Note: Guardians can’t sign in to Classroom
directly. They need to receive email summaries through another
account.
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Administrators
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· Create, view, or delete any class in their domain.
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Add or remove students and teachers from classes.
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View work in all classes in their domain.
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Classroom features and
benefits
Save teachers time
Add students easily—Students can join a class with a code,
giving you more time to teach.
Manage multiple classes—Reuse existing announcements, assignments,
or questions from another class. Share posts across multiple classes,
and archive classes for future reference.
Teach together—Co-teach a course with up to 20 other instructors.
One-click worksheets—From a worksheet template, create an
individual document for each student with one click.
Rich assignment materials—Add materials to your assignments, such as
YouTube videos, a Google Forms survey, PDFs, and other items from
Google Drive. Teachers and students can draw on, write notes, and
highlight documents and PDFs in the Classroom mobile app.
Customize assignments—Add optional due dates,
create customized grade values, and track which assignments are graded.
Prepare in advance—Draft posts and assignments,
or schedule them to automatically post to the class stream at the
scheduled date and time.
Quick exit tickets and polling—Post a question to students, then view
results within Classroom.
Customize your class theme—Change the default color or theme image for
your class.
Keep resources in one place—Create a class resource page for
documents, such as your syllabus or classroom rules.
Keep students organized—Classroom creates a Google Calendar for each
class and updates the calendar with work and due dates. Students can view
upcoming work in the class stream, on their work page, or in the class
calendar.
Keep teachers organized—Review student work, including assignments,
questions, grades, and previous comments. View work by one or all classes, and
sort by what needs reviewing.
Keep classes organized—Teachers can organize the class
stream by adding topics to posts and filtering the stream by topic.
Grade quickly and easily—Sort students by first or last name, see who's
turned in work, draft grades to share with students later, and add private
comments. Plus, add annotations and visual feedback to student work in the
Classroom mobile app.
Transfer grades—Export final grades to Google Sheets or to a
CSV file for upload elsewhere.
Integrate with other favorite teaching tools—Sync your existing Classroom classes
with partner applications.
Individual assignments—Teachers can post work and announcements
to individual students in a class.
Communicate and
collaborate
Access anytime, anywhere—Access Classroom on the web or via the Android
and iOS Classroom mobile apps.
Real-time feedback—View, comment, and edit student work in real
time. Annotate student work in the Classroom mobile app.
Create class discussions—In the class stream, post announcements,
engage students in question-driven discussions,
or move important topics to the top.
Manage class discussions—Control who can post to the class stream
and mute individual students from posting or commenting.
Share content—Share links, videos, and images from websites to Classroom with
one click in the Share to Classroom extension.
Push content to students’ screens—Push webpages instantly to a class with
the Share to Classroom extension. Students can also share their screen
with their teacher.
Communicate with guardians—Teachers in G Suite for Education domains
can invite parents and guardians to sign up for an email summary that includes
the student's upcoming or missing work. They also get announcements and
questions posted by teachers in the class stream
Easy support for administrators
Affordable and secure—Like all other free G Suite for
Education services, Classroom contains no ads and never uses your content
or student data for advertising purposes.
One sign-in—Teachers and students can sign in to Classroom with
their G Suite for Education accounts.
Set permissions—Enable or disable Classroom for all users,
specific organizational units, and other G Suite for Education school
districts. Also determine which teachers can create and manage classes.
SIS integration—Using the Classroom API, set up classes
and create student rosters based on your SIS.
Professional development—Get your teachers using Classroom quickly with
our free online training in the Google Training Center.
Free 24x7 support—Having trouble? Contact our 24x7 support
line or visit the online help center.
Personal data protection—Classroom is covered under the core
G Suite for Education Terms of Service, which includes Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) compliance. Admins can decide if domain
users can grant access to their Classroom data to third-party
applications.
Classroom user metrics—Administrators can view Classroom usage
reports in the Admin console.
