How To Use Google Classroom Complete FREE Guide | Setting Up Your Classroom

In this guide, I'll walk you step-by-step through everything you need to know to use Google Classroom with your students for distance learning or when you're back in the classroom. I'll show you how to set up your Google Classroom, how to assign activities and differentiate, how to keep your Google Classroom organized, and how to grade and give feedback on student work.

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This FREE guide includes all of the following:

Unit 1: Set Up Your Google Classroom

• How to create a new Google Classroom
• How to change the banner image
• How to upload your own image for the banner
• How to add another teacher to your class
• How to add your students to your class with a class code
• How to change your class code
• How to adjust your email notifications
• How to limit what appears on your stream including student posts
• How parents/guardians can stay in the loop with assignments

Unit 2: Assign Your Student Activities and Differentiate

• How to assign an activity to the entire class
• How to assign an activity to individual students or groups of students
• How to make changes to an assignment you've already created

Unit 3: Create Topics on Your Classwork Page to Easily Find Assignments

• How to create a topic on your classwork page
• How to use topics when you're creating an assignment/material
• How to move/rearrange assignments and topics on your classwork page

Unit 4: View and Grade Your Students’ Completed Work and Give Feedback

• How to view your students' work
• How to assign a grade and overall comment to students' work
• How to comment on specific parts of your students' work
• How to return work to students after you've graded it
• How students can view their graded work
• How to keep track of assignments you've graded

Want to learn more about using Google in your Classroom?

In our Step-by-Step Course For Using Google In Your Classroom, you’ll learn how to:

• Create meaningful activities in Google Slides, Google Docs, and Google Drawings that are centered around your curriculum and enhance your current instruction
• Create a Google Classroom to assign, view, and grade student activities as well as give feedback
• Have your students collaborate in their Google Drive to learn from each other, facilitate discussions, and create in-person connections
• Use Google Forms so you can easily create exit tickets, assessments, and activities for substitutes that are self-grading
• Create collaborative folders with the teachers you work closely with to collect, create, and share activities and materials without having to be in the same room or make paper copies
• Use your Google Drive to communicate and share student work more efficiently with parents

Throughout these videos, you’ll get 70+ different ideas for how you can use Google Apps with your students.

Who is the author of these Google Classroom Guides?

• Kathryn Averkamp - kat@makewayfortech.com
• Google Certified Educator
• Master’s degree in Educational Technology
• Taught each grade K-4 over the past 11 years
• Awarded Teacher of the Year for the 2019-2020 school year
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Beginning of the Year

• Meet the Teacher Letters and Slideshow

• Back to School Night/Open House/Meet the Teacher Presentation

• Back to School Forms for Parents and Students

• Top 5 Picks of Summer Collaborative Class Activity

• 9 Back to School Google Activities

• All About Me Collaborative Slideshow

• Digital Growth Mindset and Classroom Rules Poster Activity

• Student of the Day/Week Digital Posters & Class Book

• ENITIRE BACK TO SCHOOL BUNDLE ($31 worth of free products)

All Year Resources

• Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences

• Assignment and Agenda Slides with Timers

• Digital and Printable Newsletters

• Collaborative Kindness Activities in Google Slides

• Printable Growth Mindset and Inspirational Quote Posters

• ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE ( $17 of free products!)

Learn Google Classroom for Teachers

• FREE PDF Guide to Google Classroom

Google Jamboards

• Writer's Workshop Anchor Chart/Class Mini-Lesson Jamboards

• Math Mats and Manipulatives Jamboards

• Reading Response Jamboard Templates

• Valentine's Day Class Jamboard Activity

• January and February Discussion Jamboards

• March and April Discussion Jamboards

• Jamboard Templates GROWING BUNDLE (GET THEM ALL)

Writing/Reading

• Animal Research Report in Google Slides

• Biography Report Template in Google Slides

• Host a Poetry Writing Celebration! (Virtual or In-Class)

• Distance Learning Writing Prompt Journal "My At-Home Adventure."

• Digital Reading Logs and Graphic Organizers

• Digital Vocabulary Notebook For Any Subject

• Digital Stickers: Improvement Needed + Motivational

• Mother's Day Cards in Google Slides

Math

• Add and Subtract within 20 Word Problems (Great for review/assessment)

• Repeated Addition, Arrays, Equal Groups (Great for review/assessment)

• Entire Year Digital Multiplication Mystery Pictures in Google Slides

• Counting Coins and Bills Activities and Assessment

• Subtraction - Regroup or Not?

• Subtraction with Regrouping Word Problems Review (Topic 6 Envision)

• 2ND GRADE MATH BUNDLE ($20 worth of free products)

Social Studies

• Me on a Map Digital Flipbook + Landforms Digital Flipbook

• Google Slides Sharing Projects (Timelines, Family Traditions, Community Workers Current Events)

• Communities: Rural, Urban, and Suburban in Google Slides (+ Google Earth!)

• ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE ($21 worth of free products!)