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Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easierAbout This Book This is the first book to guide educators step by step through teaching with Google Classroom It's focused on you, your students, and providing great learning experiences easily It's easy to follow, with everything you need to get started and keep going even if you're not a technology fanWho This Book Is For This is a book for educators who want to use Google Classroom to teach better. It's not for geeks. There are rich examples, clear instructions, and enlightening explanations to help you put this platform to work. What You Will Learn Create a Google Classroom and add customized information for each individual class Add students to a Google Classroom Send announcements and questions to students Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments through Google Classroom Add events to and share a Google Classroom's calendar with parents to track a student's progress Reuse posts, archive classrooms, and perform other administrative tasks in Google Classroom Use Google Docs Add-ons, and Google Chrome Webstore Apps and Extensions to enhance assignments Set up Google Classroom's mobile appIn Detail Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it's already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It's not just a manual, you'll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide to using Google Classroom, the rapidly emerging platform for education, effectively. |
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting to Know Google Classroom; Creating your first Google class; Navigating around Google Classroom; Personalizing the class theme; Changing the class theme; Uploading a banner image; Adding information about your classroom; Adding files to your classroom; Storing files in Google Classroom; Inviting additional teachers; Accessing classes from Google Classroom's homepage; Summary; Chapter 2: Inviting Students to Their Virtual Classroom. |
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Setting up Google Classroom on student devicesComputers and Chromebooks; Installing Google Chrome in Microsoft Windows; Installing Google Chrome on Apple OS X; Installing Chrome without administrator permission; Adding a Google Chrome shortcut to the Dock; Setting up Google Chrome; Tablets and phones; Guiding students using the classroom projector; Allowing students to join using the class code; Joining a classroom with the class code; Making changes to the class code; Managing students in your classroom; Manually inviting students to your classroom; Removing students from your classroom. |
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Emailing students in your classroomSummary; Chapter 3: Sending Your First Announcement; Creating an announcement; Scheduling a time to publish an announcement; Advanced features in announcements; Attaching a file from your computer; Attaching a file from Google Drive; Including a YouTube video; Making changes to an announcement in the Stream; Reusing a previously created announcement; How students receive announcements; Disabling e-mail notifications; Commenting on announcements; Replying to comments; Managing comments; Editing and deleting comments; Muting students. |
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Viewing all muted students at a glanceDisabling comments in the Stream; Summary; Chapter 4: Starting an Online Discussion with Questions; Online or offline discussions; Creating a question; Additional features in the Question post not found in the Announcement post; Creating short answer questions; When to allow student edits; The student view; Replying to student responses; Collapsing replies; Creating multiple choice questions; When immediate feedback is bad; Grading a question; Leaving a question ungraded; Viewing the returned grade; Summary. |
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Chapter 5: Handing out and Taking in AssignmentsCreating an Assignment post; Sharing files in assignments; Viewing student files; Viewing student files in Google Classroom; Viewing student files on the Google Classroom mobile app; Viewing student files in Google Drive; Viewing files in a details list; Turning in assignments; Adding additional files to assignments; Using mobile devices with assignments; Unsubmitting and resubmitting assignments; Turning in assignments late; File ownership for assignments; Summary; Chapter 6: Grading Written Assignments in a Flash; Assigning a grade. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Google Classroom (Electronic resource)
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Internet in education.
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Internet in education. |
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Computer-assisted instruction.
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Computer-assisted instruction. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Zhang, Michael. Teaching with Google Classroom. 1. Packt Publishing, 2016 1786466287 9781786466280 (OCoLC)949751138 |
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1786464764 (electronic book) |
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9781786464767 (electronic book) |
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1786466287 |
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9781786466280 |
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