Google Classroom

Write notes on student work You can use Classroom’s drawing and writing tools to add feedback directly onto student work. You can underline words, highlight text, draw shapes, and leave notes on Google Docs files, images, Adobe® PDF®, and Microsoft® Office®documents. Note: Drawing and writing tools are available only in the Classroom mobile app for Android and Apple® iOS®. Note: You can edit or comment in any document in Drive. Your edits or comments are automatically saved and ready for the student to review when they open the document. How to write notes Tap Classroom . Tap the class and tap the assignment. Tap Student Work. Tap the student’s name and then tap their attachment. Tap Write . Make any notes. For details, see Use the drawing and writing tools. Tap Save .Important: Notes aren’t automatically saved. If you don’t tap Save or leave the screen or tap Back before saving, you’ll lose your notes. (Optional) To open the student’s work in Drive, tap New tab . How notes are saved If the original file was a Docs or Office document, the edited file is saved as a PDF. If the original file was an image or PDF, the edited file replaces the original file. Use the drawing and writing tools Choose a tool You can find all tools at the bottom of the screen. Use this tool To do this Write Write or draw lines with a pen. You can change the width of lines with pressure. Mark Write or draw lines of even width with a marker. Highlight Highlight text or images. Select Select a note to resize or move it. Erase Erase a note. Add text Add a text note.

Google Classroom offers a great tool suite for teachers and students, but ultimately, if you have used GC for grading  (it’s easy to collect, comment on, and grade assignments and papers in Google Classroom!), any grades in Google Classroom need to be moved over to Aspen. What you may not know is that grades can be exported from Google Classroom as a csv file (csv files can be opened in Google Sheets or Excel or any other spreadsheet program) quite easily. Here’s how to export grades from Google Classroom: Log into you school Google account and go to Google Classroom. Go to the class from which you wish to export grades. Click on any assignment in the class. Go to the gear near the top right of page and select “download all grades” or “download assignment grades” if you only want the grades from that particular assignment. Repeat for any other classes if you have Google Classroom set up for more than one class and need to move grades.

You can invite additional teachers to join your Google Classroom to help coordinate class activities. Here are a few class permissions to be aware of: Only the primary teacher can delete a class. The primary teacher cannot unenroll or be removed from a class. Additional teachers cannot be muted in a class. The primary teacher and additional teachers are notified of students’ private comments if email notifications are on. The primary teacher owns all class materials, including Google Drive assignment folders, submitted assignments, and templates. The primary teacher’s class and assignment folders are shared with additional teachers in Drive. If the primary teacher changes their folder structure, additional teachers might lose access to student work submitted before the additional teachers feature launched. Materials that additional teachers add to assignments or posts are shared and available in the primary teacher’s class and assignment folders. Sign in to Classroom at classroom.google.com. Click the class you want to add teachers to. At the top of the class stream, click About. Click Invite Teacher. Do one of the following: Check the box next to the teacher you want to invite. Check the Select all box to invite all the teachers listed. (Optional) To see other contact lists, click My contacts. You can also search for people by name. (Optional) Check the box next to any additional teacher you want to invite and click Next. Click Invite. Invited teachers receive an email invitation. Email invitations are fine for teachers (as opposed to students), because though Gmail is disabled, email will still be delivered to @chelseaschools.com addresses, so teachers will receive the invitations at their district email address. To join the class, the invited teacher must click a link in the email or sign in to Classroom and click Accept on the class card. Students can’t see invited teachers in the class until teachers accept the invitation.

By default, a Google Classroom assignment is posted to all students in the class. However, you can choose to post an assignment only to individual students should you wish to differentiate instruction, scaffold lessons, etc. Next to All students, click Down Arrow. Click All students to deselect it. To select students, check each student’s name. Note: When you post an assignment to individual students, you’ll see the number of students assigned the work in the class stream. To view the students’ names, click [number] students on the assignment. Also, you can’t post to more than 100 individual students at a time.

For an easy way to put words on a page, you can type with your voice in a document. At the moment, this feature is only available in Chrome browsers and on Chromebooks. Before you get started, make sure that you have a working microphone either built in to your device or connected externally. In a Chrome browser, open a document. Click the Tools menu > Voice typing. A pop-up microphone box will appear. When you are ready to speak your text, click the microphone or press Ctrl + Shift + S (Cmd + Shift + S on a Mac) on your keyboard. Speak your text clearly, at a normal volume and pace. See below for more information on using punctuation. When you’re finished, click the microphone again. Note: While voice typing in Google Docs is only available on computers, many Android and iOS phones and tablets have built-in microphones that you can use with a document. Look for the microphone icon on your mobile keyboard. Correct mistakes while voice typing If you make a mistake while you’re typing with your voice, you can move you cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning the microphone off. After correcting the mistake, make sure to move the cursor back to where you want to continue voice typing. You can also right-click words underlined in grey to see a list of suggestions. Use punctuation with voice typing When you are speaking text in a document, there are several phrases you can use to add punctuation to your text: “Period” “Comma” “Exclamation point” “Question mark” “New line” “New paragraph” Note: At the moment, this punctuation is only supported in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian.