Getting Started with Google

Classroom

https://classroom.google.com

Prepared by: Danding Aganon

Classroom Helps Teachers:
● automatically creates Drive folders for each assignment

● create and collect assignments paperlessly

● create assignments and share a single document or automatically make a copy for each
student.

● see who has or hasn't completed the work

● provide direct, real-time feedback

● Students can easily see what’s due, so they can stay on top of their work

● make announcements and start classroom discussions

● create, review, and grade assignments quickly, all in one place

Classroom Helps
Students:
• stay organised with one Drive folder for each class/teacher

• notifies students on class stream when work is assigned and due class

materials are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive communicate

and assist classmates through class discussions

Initial Screen
www.classroom.google.com

The first time you go to

the site you must
select your role
Create Your First Class
Teachers have the ability to create a class or join a class as a student.
Classroom Home
The classroom home displays all classes created.

Class
name
# of Renam
student e
s class
enrolled

Permanentl
Access y
class Drive delete class
folder
Class About Page
The About page allows you to share information about the class, as well as materials that
all students need, such as syllabus, scheme of work or past papers

Title of
class
Class
description
Location
of
class Teacher’
s
email

Class Google Drive

Folder
Add Title of
class material
materials

Attach document, Drive file, YouTube

video, hyperlink
Create a New
ClassFrom Classroom
Home

Name
the
class

Include
Section
(optional
)
Class
Homepage
Switch
Classes &
Settings
Name of
Class Hover & Select to
Class Section ‘Change class
theme’

Add Students
Information
Shows upcoming About the
Class
assignments 7 days Class
Homepag
in advance
e Create
Announcement or
Assignment
C
l
a
s
s
Students can
S
join with t
Class Code r
e
a
m
Get the Students to Sign Up for
Class
Teachers have the ability to give students a class code to join instead of having to
manually adding the students. This can be as simple as physically writing it on the
board in a classroom.

Give your students

your class code
Adding a Co-
Teacher
You can add another teacher to your class to make it easy to co-
teach.
Choose Posting & Commenting Rights
The teacher has the ability to decide what rights the students have when it
comes to posting and commenting on the class stream.

Choose rights - this

applies to all
students in the class
Restrict Commenting/Post for Individual
Students
The teacher has the ability to “mute” individual students which
will restrict those students from posting and commenting.
 Make an
You can send a message to your students or post work for the today’s lesson using
Announcement
the announcement feature

Click here

Write announcement

Upload Drive File

Attach link
Attach file
from
computer
Choose classes to post
Add to; option appears when
YouTub 2+ classes are created
eVideo Choose to post now
or
save to later
Create an
Assignment Click

here

Name Assignment

Give assignment
description
(optional)
Choose
due date Give specific time Cancel
from assignment is assignmen
calendar due t
Attach link
Choose classes to assign
assignment; option
appears
when 2+ classes are
Upload Drive created
Add YouTube Video
Attach file File
from computer
Choose to post now
or save to later
Create a Draft
You can create a draft assignment, so that you can either
Assignment
come back to it or set up multiple assignments in
advance.

They appear in a drop down

list at the top of the class
Student
rights Select file
in Drive
Select starred
Drive file

Remove inserted
file

Show inserted
file

only viewing
rights
all students will
be able to edit each student will get an
same file editable copy of the
file
Add URL to
Assignment

Paste or
type in
URL

Remove URL
Displayed Assignment
The assignment will be displayed on the class stream.

time or date view the assignments

submitte submitte
d Title and d
descriptio
n

view the assignments not submitted

Google Drive File; student
will find file on Assignments
Page

Add a How Drive file was

comment shared with
about the students
assignment
Access All Student
The teacher can click on the folder icon from the Assignment
Assignments
Status
page to gain access to all the students’
From assignmentassignments.
page click
Folder

shows status

Assignments started by
students will appear in
folder

If there is no file in the folder then the student has not started the
assignment.
View Individual Student’s
The teacher can click on an individual student’s name to access their assignment file from
Assignment
the
Assignment Status page.

Click on students
name
If no file exists the student has not
started the assignment

Click on students
name shows status

Click on file to
view
progress
Teacher Assignment Page
Teachers can access every assignment for every class from the teacher assignment page.

See assignments you

have marked as
reviewed

Name of
assignment
Give each class a
different theme for
quick color
recognition

Name of class
Student Assignment Page
Students can access every assignment for every class from the student assignment page.

View assignments that

still need to be See finished
completed
assignment
s

Name of
assignment

Name of class Due

date
Submit an
The student can click on the assignment name from the class stream or the
Assignment
assignment sidebar to submit work.
due
assignmen
t titl dat
create Drive file e e
add existing file
submit assignment

assignment file

remove added
file
add comment for
teacher
add existing
Drive file
The student will lose editing rights to the Drive file once the
add link to
online assignment is turned in. They have the option to unsubmit the
source assignment to obtain editing rights again.
add file
from
computer
Unsubmit an Assignment
Students can unsubmit an assignment that they have already turned in.

add note for

teacher
Grade
Assignments
Assign grade on the Assignment Status Page.

after grade has been

assigned, click
Return

change point
value

type in grade

add comments

The teacher gets editing rights to the file when the student turns in the assignment. Once the
teacher returns the assignment the rights switch from editing to commenting.
Export Grades
The teacher can export grades to upload into district’s gradebook. You can download grades for
individual assignments or all assignments.

Click on an assignment name to access this

feature.

Choose download type

Thank you