Google Classroom Basics (PK-4)

Classroom is a free web-based platform that integrates your Google Apps for Education account with all your Google Apps services, including Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It’s designed to save you time and paper.

Classroom also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each class to help keep everyone organized. Teachers can attach material from their Drive folders to assignments they create. Students can also attach files from their Drive folders to coursework they submit in Classroom. Any files submitted as part of an assignment are automatically stored in Google Drive.

Students can keep track of what’s due on the assignments page and on Calendar and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn’t completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom.

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Ways to Use Classroom for Teaching and Learning

Classroom is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized.

Students can keep track of what’s due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn’t completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom.

Earn Your Stripe!

Create your first announcement in your Google Classroom and submit a screenshot of it below.

This tool allows students to reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. This tool allows students to manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world. This tool allows students to curate information from digital resources. This tool allows students to publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences. This tool allows students to use digital tools to connect with learners.	If teachers use it to present information	If teachers embed multiple pieces of media for a lesson	If students communicate with others about their learning through posts on Google Classroom	If students post a Google Slide presentation including resources on their class page to teach others about a topic

Alignment to the ISTE Standards and to SAMR is intended to help teachers understand the roles these technologies have in creating learning experiences. They are not meant to be concrete classifiers. Any other suggestions on the alignment of these may be forwarded to the Instructional Tech Dept. ISTE Standards for Students, ©2016, ISTE® (International Society for Technology in Education), iste.org. All rights reserved.

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