FREE Step-by-Step Video Tutorials for Teachers
Module 3: How to Use Google Classroom for Teachers

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Video 1: Google Classroom Tour: The Best Way To Share And Turn In Student Assignments
I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
- Why you should set up a Google Classroom right away
- Google Classroom and its most important features
- Understanding the benefits of Google Classroom

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Video 2: Set Up Your Google Classroom
I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
- Setting up your new Google Classroom
- Adding your students to the class
- Adjusting your email settings to choose when you want to be notified about student assignments
- Adding other teachers or assistants as contributors to your Classroom
- Inviting parents to join your Classroom so they can receive automated emails about their child’s assignments
- Customizing the design of your Classroom with the image banner

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Video 3: Assign Your Student Activities And Differentiate In Google Classroom
I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
- Setting up a student assignment
- Differentiating your assignments by choosing which students you want to receive an assignment
- Ideas for assignments that you can differentiate
- Assigning a point value to an assignment
- Scheduling an assignment due date
- Adding files, links, and videos to an assignment
- Deciding if you want your students to view an assignment, get their own copy to edit, or if you want your whole class to edit the same assignment
- Editing the assignment after you’ve created it

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Video 4: Create Topics On Your Classwork Page To Easily Find Assignments
I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
- A Google Classroom that is organized by topics
- How to create topics in your Google Classroom
- Rearranging the order of your topics
- Putting assignments under the correct topic
- Deleting or editing a topic that has already been created

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Video 5: View And Grade Your Students’ Completed Work And Give Feedback
I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
- Where to find your students’ completed assignments
- Determining who has completed the assignment and who’s still working
- How to assign a grade on an assignment
- 3 ways of giving feedback to students
- Setting up a comment bank so you can reuse your comments on all of your students’ assignments
- Grading a collaborative activity that all of your students completed
- Returning an assignment to students after you’ve reviewed and scored it
- Viewing these scores in your Google Classroom’s gradebook
- Keeping track of which assignments you’ve graded and which ones are still on your to do list

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Video 6: More Features In Google Classroom
I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
- Where to find your Google Classroom folder that’s automatically created in your Google Drive, along with all of the activities you’ve assigned in Google Classroom and your students’ copies
- Finding your Google Calendar and viewing assignments automatically added to it
- Posting materials for your students to reference throughout the year
- Asking questions to engage your students in a discussion or collect their responses as an exit ticket
- How to archive your Classroom and reuse it again next year
Hi! I'm Kathryn, Your Google Teacher
- I love all things Google and am a Google Certified Educator
- I have my Masters in Education Technology from Boise State University (where I had my first Google Drive way back when)
- I was Teacher of the Year last year, woohoo!
- I've been a teacher for 13 years and have taught all grades K-4. (Kinder and 2nd have my ❤️ )
- I'm a huge traveler! (currently in Bali)