Teaching with Google Classroom: To provide a step-by-step guide to setup and use Google Classroom

by Michael Zhang

Overview

Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easier

Key Features

• 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 fan

Book Description

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.

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 app

Who 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786466280
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2016
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael Zhang is a Google for Education Certified Trainer. He has an education and science degree from the University of Alberta and works within the Edmonton Public Schools division in Canada. He applies Google's Workspace for Education daily within his classroom. Michael has spoken at several teaching conventions and facilitates technology training in Google Apps, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, Windows and Apple products, and other software. His experience helps him to communicate about technology in a comprehensible manner to his audience. He believes that technology should save time and improve productivity and hopes that this book does just that for its readers.

Table of Contents

1. Getting to Know Google Classroom
2. Inviting Students to Their Virtual Classroom
3. Sending Your First Announcement
4. Starting an Online Discussion with Questions
5. Handing out and Taking in Assignments
6. Grading Written Assignments in a Flash
7. Google Forms for Multiple Choice and Fill-in-the-blank Assignments
8. Keeping Parents in the Loop
9. Customizing to Your Subject