6 BENEFITS OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
Digital learning has become the new norm now that most school buildings are closed and millions of students are staying home. Teachers are looking for ways to connect with students virtually and provide meaningful learning opportunities for their students. While there are many platforms that exist to connect classrooms virtually, there is one very popular (and free!) platform that teachers should consider. Enter Google Classroom. Google Classroom is a web service provided for free by Google to schools that use Google for Education tools. It exists to connect teachers and students together and to streamline the process of sharing files. The possibilities of using Google Classroom are endless! Here are 6 benefits for using Google Classroom in your upper elementary/middle school classroom.
Google Classroom helps to easily facilitate student-teacher communication. Students can comment on posts either publicly or privately to ask questions. On the stream, teachers can share something with the class, rather than making it an assignment. This could be a video, link, or just a question of the day. Students can then respond to each other. Teachers can also create a formal question in the Classwork section that their students can answer, either in short answer form or multiple choice. Teachers can also choose whether students can reply to each other and/or edit their answers.
Digital learning has become the new norm now that most school buildings are closed and millions of students are staying home. Teachers are looking for ways to connect with students virtually and provide meaningful learning opportunities for their students. While there are many platforms that exist to connect classrooms virtually, there is one very popular (and free!) platform that teachers should consider. Enter Google Classroom. Google Classroom is a web service provided for free by Google to schools that use Google for Education tools. It exists to connect teachers and students together and to streamline the process of sharing files. The possibilities of using Google Classroom are endless! Here are 6 benefits for using Google Classroom in your upper elementary/middle school classroom.
Schedule Posts in Advance
This is by far the best part of Google Classroom! Google Classroom allows teachers to write a post and schedule it to post at a certain time. You can write and schedule in advance as many posts as you want to. This allows teachers to plan out their week and let students know when to expect assignments. To schedule a post in advance, click the arrow to the right of “Post” and then click “Schedule.” Enter the date and time you would like to schedule the post for and click “Schedule.” You can go back to the post at a later time if you need to edit the time it was scheduled for.Monitor Student Work
Google allows you to make a copy of a Google Doc or Google Slide for each student in your class. This allows students to work off of the same template that you provide. It also allows you to go into their Docs or Slides and look at what students are working on. You can provide real-time comments and suggestions to students while they are working. When creating an assignment in Google Classroom, make sure your sharing settings for your Google Doc or Google Slides are set to “Make a Copy for Each Student.”Teacher-Student and Student-Student Communication
