GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Manual

Saint Bernadette Divine Academy

Bulacan
Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aims to simplify creating,
distributing, and grading assignments. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of
sharing files between teachers and students

Google Classroom Tutorial Outline:

1. How to access Google Classroom
2. Create and edit a class in Google Classroom
3. Add students to your Google Classroom
4. Showing how students join a class
5. Invite guardians and email students
6. Communicating in the Stream in Google Classroom with student view
7. Adding resources and materials in Google Classroom
- Links, Materials
- Creating Assignments and Quizzes
- Adding Rubrics, grading and returning Assignments
8. Student view of resources and materials
- How student sees the materials
- How student sees the assignment
- Students view of the returned assignments

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HOW/WAYS TO ACCESS GOOGLE CLASSROOM (FROM GOOGLE CHROME)

1. Click the icon on the top right corner, in between IMAGES and your Google Account Picture/Initial.
You should see this:

- Scroll down below to see the icon. (TIP: You can move the icons/apps around, depending on your
preference)

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 2. Another way to access it is to type classroom.google.com in the address bar (this only works if you
are already logged in Google).

CREATE AND EDIT A CLASS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM

1. Click the symbol besides . Then select

NOTE: A popup will appear (show below) asking if you are using Classroom at a school with students. You
can bypass this by ticking the checkbox and clicking continue).

2. Put the Class Name (Required). The other fields are optional (you can go back to this even after you have
created the class).

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 3. Now you should arrive here.
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Parts of the Stream Dashboard

a. Select Theme / Upload Photo – this is where you can customize the class banner by selecting from the
themes gallery, or just uploading a photo (e.g. Class Photo, Stock Photos)
b. Main Menu – This is where you’ll find access to other classes (ongoing), archived classes (classes that’s
already done), work reviews (work from students that needs reviewing) and Settings (Email Notifs,
Comments, submissions, Class notifs). These will be further explained as we go along.

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c. Public comments – you can see and post comments here. If you also have an instruction/post that you
want to duplicate on another class, you can click the icon the right (REUSE POST).
d. Upcoming – here is where you will see all of the dues/deadlines for the specific class.
e. Class Settings – edit the settings for the class
- Class Details – modify/put Class Sections, Room, Subject and description
- General – general settings
o Class Code – where you can find the class code. You can display, copy, reset or disable the
code.
o Stream Comments – modify the comment settings, such as students can comment, view only
or teacher can comment only.
o Show Deleted Items – you can turn this on if you (teacher) want to see deleted items.
- Grading – See the detailed explanation for this. (see p18)

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ADD STUDENTS TO YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM

1. If you are working live (Google Meet), you can click the icon under the Class Name to show the Class
Name to your students/Audience)

Alternatively, you can modify the Class Code if you want. Click the at the top right-hand corner, and
choose from the following options:

Show it full screen

Copy the Class Code

Change/Modify the Class Code

Disable the Class Code if you don’t want any more students joining in

2. You can also copy the Class Code and mail/include it in your email/messages to your students/audience.
3. Lastly, you can click PEOPLE at the top. This way, you can add teachers too.

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- It then becomes this

- Once the student accepts/joins the class, it will become this

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SHOWING HOW STUDENTS JOIN A CLASS

1. Once a student is invited through email (1 invite per class), they’ll get this message:

2. They can also join by clicking the icon on the top right corner.

This is the Class Dashboard on the student’s end.

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INVITE GUARDIANS AND EMAIL STUDENTS

1. If you want to invite guardians (available only in G-Suite for Education)

Email all guardians

Invite Guardians

2. When emailing students, you can click the icon to email the student and click EMAIL STUDENT.

You can email the student directly using this route. No need to go to Gmail Inbox.

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COMMUNICATING IN THE STREAM IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM WITH STUDENT VIEW

In the Stream view, this is where you communicate with your class. Announcements, assignments, or
attachments (files, website, YouTube video or Google Drive files) can be given here. Here’s a sample message:

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a. You can post the announcement right away, schedule it for a later time or save a draft to edit it later.
b. You can customize only those who you want the announcement to be visible to.
c. You can add attachments this way.

Here’s a sample YT video posted. An email will automatically be sent to the list that you provided or all of
the students.

You and your students can comment on this, which can also be adjusted.
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 Let’s say a student commented on your post.

(Student’s View)

(Teacher’s View)

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a. Reply directly to your student’s post.

b. Mute the student or delete the actual post (for inappropriate, offensive or vulgar comments)

To adjust the reply settings for this class, click on the icon at the top.

- Under the GENERAL tab, look for STREAM and adjust the settings.

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ADDING RESOURCES AND MATERIALS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Now, we’re ready to manage our class’ resources, materials, assignments and other works.

To start, click CLASSWORK at the top.

CLASSWORK DASHBOARD

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a. Create Button – Here, you create Topics, Assignments, Quiz Assignments, Question and post Materials.
b. Google Calendar – an easy way to manage your activities and your students’. This way, you can schedule
virtual meetings, reminders or live chats. Your students will also have a reminder/placeholder in their own
calendars.
c. Class Drive Folder – to organize your files in your GDrive, which makes it more organized specially if you
have more than 1 class.

Let us discuss each.

CREATE BUTTON

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TOPIC – you can organize this by creating subsections, depending on what you need.

MATERIAL – This option lets you create a material for posting

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a. Title & Description – name the material (required) and add a description (optional)
b. Add – you can add any of the ff: Google Drive File, a Website Link, attach a File (locally saved in your
computer/device) and a YouTube Link (this will allow you to search a video within the same window, or
paste the actual URL/YT Link)
c. Create – lets you create, from this window, any of the ff: Docs (Word), Slides (PowerPoint), Sheets (Excel),
Drawing (Visio) or Forms (Form Builder)
d. Post – Schedule, save a draft of post it right away
e. All Students – lets you choose if you want to post this material for all students or just a few of them.
f. Topic – lets you organize where you want to put this material under
g. Students can edit the file – if you added anything under create (see C), this option will appear. This will
give you three options: 1. Students can view the file, 2. Students can edit the file, and 3. Make a copy for
each student (the best option if you’re send out a doc/excel that you would want per student)

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Question – same functionality with Material, with a few additions

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a. Short Answer – choose either Short Answer (Free Text or Free Form) and Multiple Choice (Choices will
appear below and lets you customize it)
b. Points – you can allot how many points (graded) for this work or just choose Ungraded
c. Due Date – lets you choose a Due Date (strongly followed). If past due, and you want to give extensions,
you can edit your Material post and change the date
d. Optional – checkboxes for the ff: 1 – Students can reply to each other or 2 – Students can edit answers
(Short Answer) and Students can see Class Summary (Multiple Choice)

Assignment – Same functionality with Question, but with Rubrics added. A rubric is an assessment tool that clearly
indicates achievement criteria across all the components of any kind of student work, from written to oral to
visual. It can be used for marking assignments, class participation, or overall grades. A further explanation of this
will be done in person.

Quiz Assignment – Same functionality with Assignment (with Rubrics) but is highly recommended if you want to
use Google Forms. In Forms, points are also included. Difference of Rubrics is it provides transparency on how you
grade/point each aspect of their work.

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Teacher’s view of the Classwork, after adding materials and assignments

Teacher’s view of an Assignment with submitted work

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Students’ view of resources, materials & assignments

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a. If an assignment’s attachment was designed to be SEEN and EDITED by everyone (by the Teacher), this
option is going to be available for the students. They all can SEE or EDIT the attachment that the Teacher
provided. (OPTIONAL)
b. If an assignment’s attachment was designed to only be seen on a PER STUDENT basis, a copy of the
attachment is going to be made per student. Students can only EDIT and SEE their own copies provided
by the teacher. (OPTIONAL)
c. Students can add files, links or even create attachments like Docs or Sheets as an additional attachment
for the assignment. These are private and only the teacher can see. (see blown-up drawing)
d. Turn-in Button. Once the students are done with the necessary things for the assignment, they can turn
their assignments by pressing this button. This submits/turns the assignments to the teacher for
checking. Once turned-in, there will only be an amount of time where they can UNSUBMIT the
assignment. Once the teacher sees the assignment, and have graded it, they can’t UNSUBMIT it
anymore.
e. Rubrics Grading system. Discussed previously. Please see blown-up criteria as an example.
f. Public comments. Students can utilize this if they want their comments seen publicly (by all students and
teachers)
g. Private comments. Students can talk to the teacher privately using chat box.

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SET UP GRADING
This article is for teachers. Grading can only be set up on a computer.
Coming soon: Organize your gradebook into grading periods, such as quarters or semesters, and see overall
grades for each.
For your grading system, you can choose Total points or Weighted by category grading. In both, grades are
calculated for you, and you can let students see their overall grade. If you don’t want to use a grading system,
you can choose No overall grade. Grades won’t be calculated and students can’t see an overall grade.
You can also organize classwork with grade categories, such as Essays, Homework, and Tests. For example, if
your class has 4 essay assignments, you can organize them in an Essays category.
Note: Grades are calculated for the duration of the class. If you want to begin grading again for a new term or
semester, you have to create a new class.

About the grading systems

To have grades calculated for you and an option to let students see their overall grade, use Total points or
Weighted by category grading.

1. Total Points Grading

An overall grade is calculated for you by dividing the total points a student earns by the total points
possible in the class. You can create grade categories and set point values for classwork in each
category. For example:

The table shows that a student scored 90 points out of 100 on an essay, and 95 points out of 100 on a
test. The student earned a total of 185 points out of 200 possible in the class. Divided, this gives an
overall grade of 92.5%.

2. Weighted by Category Grading

You assign weights (percentages) to grade categories, and an overall grade is calculated for you. This system
calculates as follows:
1. Finds a student's average for a category.
2. Multiplies each category’s average by its weight (as a decimal), giving category scores.

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 3. Adds the category scores for an overall grade out of 100%.

The table shows weighted by category grading. In the Essay category, the student averaged 75. Multiplied by the
category weight, .5, this gives 37.5% for Essays. In the Test category, the student averaged 95. Multiplied by the
category weight, .5, this gives 47.5% for Tests. Adding the category scores (37.5 + 47.5) gives the student an overall
grade of 85%.

Set up a grading system

After you select a grading system, you can add grade categories. Grade categories are required with Weighted
by category grading, but can also be used with Total points grading or No overall grade.
Select a grading system
1. Click your Class Settings.
2. Next to Overall grade calculation, select one:

a. No overall grade—Grades aren’t calculated for students. Students can’t see an overall
grade.
b. Total points—Divides total points earned by total points possible. You can let students see
an overall grade.
c. Weighted by category—Adds the scores across categories. You can let students see an
overall grade.

3. (Optional) To make the overall grade visible to students on their profile page, click Show
Note: This option isn’t available when grade calculation is set to No overall grade.

4. In the top-right corner, click Save.

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Create grade categories for No overall grade or Total points grading

For these options, you assign default point values to the grade categories you create. (Web Version Only)
1. Click your Class Settings.
2. Next to Overall grade calculation, select No overall grade or Total points from the menu
3. Under Grade categories, click Add Grade Category.
4. Enter a grade category.
5. Under Default points, enter a whole number.
6. (Optional) To add another grade category, repeat steps 4–6.
7. In the top-right corner, click Save

Create grade categories for Weighted by category grading

For these options, you assign default point values to the grade categories you create.
1. Click your Class Settings.
2. Next to Overall grade calculation, select Weighted by category from the menu
3. Under Grade categories, click Add Grade Category.
4. Enter a grade category
5. Under Percentage, enter a whole number
6. (Optional) To add another grade category, repeat steps 4–6.
7. In the top-right corner, click Save
Note: To save your settings, the categories must add up to 100%.

Remove a grade category

You can remove grade categories. Removing a grade category:

• Removes the grade category from the corresponding classwork.
• Doesn't delete the classwork itself.

1. Click your Class Settings.

2. Next to the grade category you want to remove, click Remove.
3. For weighted by category grading, adjust your remaining categories or add a new category to equal
100%.
4. At the top, click Save

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