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Tools to Help You Work with Google Classroom
“Getting Started with Google Classroom”
The Google Classroom Help Center has everything you need for getting started. They have tons of resources and how-to’s.
A Google Classroom Symbaloo – Share this one with teachers who are getting started. They can make it their startup screen and test one thing a day.
Google Apps/ GAFE Tutorials for Teachers – a massive site full of tutorials. Use and email these out as you have specific tasks for teachers to learn. For beginners
The Google Gooru – The Gooru has a daily email with Google apps tips and lots of ideas for using Google. They also have tutorials and webinars. The lead GAFE administrators should definitely use this resource.
Sue Gorman’s Getting Googley Resource
Shake Up Learning Has some great resources like their Guide to Google Classroom Comments: All You Need to Know and How to Insert Super Cool Gifs into Presentations and Docs –
Assessment
Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walkthroughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms
Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments
Doctopus helps with management – while it does some things Google Classroom does, there are other features it manages too.
There’s also a Goobric web app launcher for Chrome.
Use this Graphic for Students Turning in Work
10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad
Google Classroom: Using the Rubric Tab to Assess Students
Alice Keeler’s Google Classroom Feedback Workflow
Math
60 Ways Math Teachers Can Use Google Classroom by Alice Keeler
gMath for Forms – add math symbols to Google Forms
5 Ways Students Can Use Google Docs in Math
gMath for Sheets – Lets you add formulas to Google Sheets
Mathematical Equations – Up to Date Information from Google on using equations
Google Classroom Part I – How 7th grade math teacher Sherrie Nackel organizes her files and assignments
Literature and Composition
Voice Typing and Other Tools to Use with Google Docs
Google Classroom: Using a Writing Journal
15 Best Google Drive Add-Ons for Education
5 Ways to Make Professional Looking Google Documents
How to Add Google Drive to Microsoft Word
Research
How to Make Google Chrome Faster, Better and Prettier
Helpful Google Search Modifiers Poster
Google Docs Research Tool Removes the Drudgery from Presentations
Google Research Tool by Tammy Worcester Tang
Apps
Google Classroom Add-on for Chrome For beginners
Google Lesson Plan Tool for Docs –
Classroom Mobile App for Android and iOS
Edusync app for Google Calendars
Google Chrome Desktop Plugin lets you access another person’s Chromebook or Chrome browser from your teacher computer (or vice versa)
Share to Classroom lets you push web pages to your student browsers instantly. Helps get everyone on the same page quickly
How to Add Google Drawings Comic Strips to Your Class with Matt Miller and Cori Orlando added 12/24/17
Books
50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller For beginners
Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis – my book on Collaborative Writing
The Chromebook Classroom by John Sowash
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