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Now I will turn it over to Melinda we will begin the Google Classrooms webinar. Melinda.

OK, everybody. Thank you for coming. As Veronica said, we are doing a Google Classroom. If you're here for anything else, you can still stay. But we're not going to be doing anything else but Google Classroom. There is a handout. It's just a PDF of the slides that I'm going to be going through on the far left hand corner on the bottom there.

So if you click on that, you can download the file at any time during this webinar. I'll just keep it to this layout so that that's there for you. Please, please, please, answer questions as you have them. Don't wait. So if we're on a certain screen and you have a question about something, please ask. If I don't see it and I don't answer within a couple of seconds, Veronica will get back onto the microphone and she'll read the question to me. I don't want to miss any questions, OK?

So with that, things are going to change just a little bit here. I'm going to share my screen. And I'm going to-- oops. I wasn't on the right one. Here we go. We're going to present. Woohoo. Here we go.

So Google Classroom for adult education. Again, my name is Melinda Holt. I'm a PS2 here at the Sacramento County Office of Education. I work for two departments, OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network, and AEBG TAP, the technical assistance project arm of AEBG.

So if anybody just recently went to the summit in-- God, where were we at? Universal City. You might have seen me running around along with Marjorie. She's also in the room doing tech support. So if you have any questions about this webinar or any trainings that you would like to see at a consortium site or at a WIOA funded site, you can contact me directly. Or you can contact TAP at AEBG.org and submit the request. We can do all kinds of workshops for you, including this one as a face-to-face hands on workshop.

So here are my objectives. We're going to learn the basics from a teacher and student perspective. You're going to, hopefully, by the end of this workshop understand Classroom and the relationship it has to drive. You're going to understand the layout. You're going to understand how to add, archive, and delete classes. You're also going to learn how to create and assign AQAs, announcements, questions, and assignments as well as enroll students, tracking grade, and assignments individually or as a group. So you can assign assignments individually or as a group, which is kind of new to Google Classroom now.

Now, the little picture off to the right there-- in one hour-- and actually, this is an hour and a half. We're going to have a lot of information in a little bitty space, let's put it that way. There's a reason this is a three hour hands on workshop. And there's a lot to cover.

So are we going to cover every aspect of Classroom? Heck no. But we will be able to get some basics down for you so that maybe you'd be able to go in and actually work with it, learn some new things. And if you have questions, again, ask TAP AEBG.org or you can contact me directly.

So what is Classroom? Google Classroom is a blended learning platform. It's for educational units that GSuites EDU, or now, Public Google. The Classroom is not a learning management system. It's not Blackboard. It's not Moodle. And it probably never will be.

And this came from a Google tech that I was talking to a few months ago when I was at another conference. They have no intention of making this a learning management system. They're not in the business of making LMS. So they call it a blended learning platform. Well, what's it blended with? Google Drive. So it's a learning platform that uses Google Drive. And it puts everything in one little container for you or one folder, if you will.

Who can use Classroom? Teachers and students whose districts have GSuites EDU where the Classroom app has been enabled. And a GSuite EDU. I always get this question. What is that? Well, you might be on a Google and not even realize. It if you have an at at SLUSD.US. That's your domain. You're actually a Google EDU, OK?

There's another type of an account and that's public. And that's where you have an @gmail.com. So you can use an EDU account or you can use @gmail.com. And with adult education, you have the capability to use either. The problem is that not all adult education programs are allowed to have GSuites EDU accounts or Classroom accounts within their GSuites because their students can't use the EDU.

So if you're an adult education setting and you have teachers who have @SCOE.net, which is an EDU, and you have your students using Google but they're using @gmail.com, the two can't use the same Classroom, and I'm going explain why here in just a sec, it's because of this.

When you're in the pub, when you're public, you can do anything you want. You can go into the pub and you can associate with anybody you want and it's just-- you're having a rousing good time. When you're in an EDU, you have to act quite proper and you have to have the secret code to get into the room. You have to have a school district give you a password along with an account on their club, OK?

So we have a pub and we have a club. Public EDU is @gmail.com. Whereas a club EDU is .us, .edu, .net, .org. Classroom can share with the same domain. And I said that slow so that you would understand it. Classroom can only share with the same domain.

So if you have an @gmail.com account as a teacher, you can share with an @gmail.com student. If you have an @SCOE.net account as a teacher you cannot share with an @gmail.com account. This is why. Because most EDUs are self-contained little units. And adult education doesn't always have the same rights as the students at a high school. Or their students at the adult education site don't have accounts.

So here's some things to ponder. If you're a teacher that has an EDU, a club account, and you want to use Classroom with your students who have pub accounts, you should not create public Classrooms if your students have an EDU. If they have a club account and you have a club account, you got no problems. Use that club account. That's good.

If they don't-- if your students don't have a club account and you try and create a pub account while you're at your school, you might be precluded from doing that. It might not work. You would be able to do it at home. You can do it at Starbucks. You could do it at the library. But you might not be able to do it at your site because the network is detecting that you're trying to create something that it has said, nope. You can't do that. Not here.

So will you be able to access the Classroom after you create it off site? Chances are yes, OK? They just don't let you create it within the site. Should you ever use a public account, an @gmail.com account with K-12 students under 18 years? No. Not without permission from the parents or the admin. So if you have a 17-year-old in an adult education class, do not use an @gmail.com account with that student.

Make sure the students that you're using a Classroom on the public side are able to sign a waiver that they're adults. That they're able to sign an acceptable use policy all on their own without-- it's just the way Google works. I'm not going to get into that because it would just take too long to explain everything.

So here's a pop quiz. And I'm going to escape out of this so I can see some answers here. Which represents a domain? Which one of these-- we've got A, B, C, and D. And I'm going to make this a little bigger. No, I went the wrong way. Here we go. So which one of these is a domain?

Go ahead and type in the chat what you think one of these or maybe two of these are part of a domain. Anybody? Is somebody answering? We got three answers. We got A and C. We got a C. @gmail.com, so that would be A. All right, A and C, again. OK, so those of you that answered A and C are correct. Those are domains.

Google Classroom is not a domain. Google Drive is not a domain. Anything after an @ symbol is considered a domain. So good for you. And as we go to the next slide, which I'm going to have to do a little wonky here because I came out of presentation mode. Hang on just a sec. There we go. Go down. Sorry about that. Boom. Here we go. Those are the answers. So A and C, OK? So you got that right.

Now, next pop quiz. Remember, I said you have to share with the same domain, all right? So using this question. Let me try and get this out of the way. There we go. So can I share a Classroom, A, meho@gmail.com to SCOEtech@gmail.com? Can I do B, meho@SCOE.net to SCOEtech@gmail.com? Or C, meho@gmail.com SCOEtech@yahoo.com, or meho@SCOEnet to SCOEtech@SCOE.net. There we go.

So what would the answer be there? So just to give you some clue, A would be pub to pub. B would be club to pub. I see you typing. C would be pub to pub in a weird way. And D would be club to club. And I'm reading your answers.

So we have someone saying A, C, and D. Then, we have someone saying A and C. And Chhaya you said and D. All right, so let's find out what the right answer is if I can find. [humming]

The correct answers are A and D. You cannot use C. That was a trick question. The domain has to be the same. So even though both @gmail.com and @yahoo.com are public, you will not be able to share a Classroom with @yahoo.com.

If your student has an @yahoo.com account, they know how to create an email, right? And Yahoo is free and so is Gmail. So if they have a Yahoo account, they should be able to create a Gmail account as well. So you will not be able to do C. You can only do A and D. Club to club, club to pub, OK?

All right, let me go back into present mode here so we can get out of that. So why should you use Classroom? What's the big deal? Well, Classroom allows teachers to create, assign, collect assignments paperlessly, and all through Google Drive, really.

You can do almost anything that you can on an LMS. I know I said it wasn't an LMS, and it's not. But you can do a lot of things there. You've got time saving features that are in the Classroom. It's not in your calendar. It's a separate calendar that Classroom creates for you.

You can copy assignments. You can assign everything student by student or a group of students. The Classroom will create folders for each assignment and for your students within the drive. So it creates everything for you. You don't have to organize anything. It does the organization for you.

And here's some more reasons. Because it does all of this. And why it's doing that I don't know. Here we go. So Classroom integrates GSuites for teachers and students. It contains communication tools. You can communicate with your students through Classroom. It has calendars within it. It can send reminders on when something is due.

And it's an app. So you can also install it on a phone or a tablet. So the students will be able to use it on their tablet or their phone. They can do their assignments if they want to look at something that small on the phone. Or they can use a laptop or a tablet or a computer.

Same thing for teachers. And then, there's more reasons I'm going to go through real quick because I want you to be able to see the Classroom itself. So Classroom allows students to track assignments and due dates, gives teachers student info, connects real time data, and you get feedback.

And everything's in real time because it's done on the Cloud. It's now in the Google Cloud. So info for first time students and teachers. Here we go. When you go to Classroom, when you go to Classroom.google.com. If you're on an EDU and you're signed into your account, you can go there and you're going to get-- be given an option with a plus symbol to create your first class.

Once you select that plus symbol to create a class as a teacher, you are forever a teacher. If your students are part of an EDU, if they're part of a club, if they're on the same domain that you have like @SCOE.net, then when they go to that plus sign and they select teacher, they're a teacher. Until you're at admin or your network coordinator, changes their role to student.

So you can still put them in your class, they can still enroll in your class as a teacher, but they will also be able to create classes. So that's something to keep in mind when you're on an EDU when you're on public. And you just want to make sure that you guide your students to join a class, not create a class as a teacher.

So when students select Student, that's their role. And then, every time they sign and after that they are going to be students. On the pub, it works a little different. You can be a student or a teacher. And it really doesn't make any difference as long as you don't tell your students that they could become a teacher, they don't have to be. They don't have to know. What you don't know won't hurt them, right?

So teachers class. Here is were the home page here. And these slides are all part of the handout. So I'm going to go live here in just a minute because I do have Wi-Fi here. So I'm going to be able to show this to you live.

But here's what a teacher's home page looks like. Some of the things that you can do there. Again, this is part of the handout. This is how you create a class. It's really simple to do. Very easy. This is what you look-- see when you get to your home page, OK? And then, the class for-- wait, student's class page. Teachers can invite students or they can give-- uh oh, I see something jumping. Hang on.

Sorry about that. My computer was giving me some weirdness. OK, so teachers can give the class code or they can join a class by selecting a link within email. So there's a lot-- there's a few ways to do that. I will show that to you live.

And we could join class with invitation. This is how students would join, OK? And they can also join this class code. So I'm going to jump out of here because I want you to see this live. It works a little better. Before I do that, though, I'd like to see if there are any questions so far. If I've covered anything that somebody is going, hey, what? What's going on?

So I'm going to give you a five count. And if I don't see anybody typing, I'm going to continue. I'm going to go 5, 4, 3, 2, I see someone typing. Marjorie. No. OK. All right, onward.

So like I said, once you are signed into your account, all you have to do is go to your address bar or the Omnibox as they call it on Google Chrome. And type Classroom.google.com. Once you're signed into a public account or a club account, and EDU, you are signed in.

So I can go right to my class. Boom. I've already created some classes. If I come here the first time, this plus sign here would be, basically, the only thing I would see. So I would click that. And then, create class as a teacher. If you have your students go directly to Classroom.com once they're signed into their account, then they, too, would select the plus sign and then join a class.

When they click Join a Class, they're going to be asked for the class code and I'll show you that here in just a sec. So right here, I have three classes. And this is where you-- this is your landing page, OK? This is the home page for Classroom overall.

You can have as many classes as you want. You would just go to the plus sign. You think, hey, I need another class, OK? So you click the plus sign. You create the class. And it will automatically come up with this message. It's here to scare you, OK? In all seriousness, it's here to scare you.

You don't have to worry about it. If you're using Classroom with adults, even if you're using the pub or the club, it doesn't matter. If you're using it with adults, all you need to do is click this, yeah, whatever, and continue, OK? But you are going to get that every time you try to create a class.

So right now we're going to name our class. And we're going to name this what? We're doing to name this online workshop. Because everyone should know how to do an online workshop.

There's a section that I could put here. So I could do what? Beginning or level two. Whatever I want here. And then, have a subject area as well. I'm not going to do all of this. All I want is a title of the Classroom. I can always change this later.

So I'm going to leave this the way it is and hit Create. It's creating my class. It's basically creating a course shell. So it takes a little bit of time. If you're on a Wi-Fi, it'll take a little bit longer than if you're hard wired. And then, it opens the class for you. So here's the name of my class right here.

I don't really want to do anything here yet. It's created. That's great. I want to get back to my other classes. In order to do that, I'm going to go to my button over here. This is where I can get back to my main menu, OK? So I'm going to click on the three lines over there. And I can see all of my classes.

I could select any one of these at that time or I can go back to my classes home page. And there we go. Now I see all of my classes. I can move this around. I can put them in order any way I want. And that's how you create a class. Very simple.

Once you create a class, you're going to want to add something to it beyond students, OK? You're going to want to have some assignments, you're going to want some-- just to add things to it. And I need to minimize this so I can see what I'm doing here. Hang on just a sec. There we go.

All right, so right here, I've already added one assignment. And I have a student that's already completed something. Right here, this plus button, down the lower right hand corner, that's where you add the what I call AQAs. Your assignments, your questions, and your announcements.

An announcement is something like class is not going to be in session tomorrow. Or there will be a holiday on February the [audio out] OK? A question, it would be a poll. It's a good way to get class discussion started or to get some collaboration going before a project, maybe.

Who's interested in doing something on geography? Who's interested in doing something on civilization? I'm just trying to think of some different topics. So you can ask questions within a class. The teacher controls what's called the stream. You control whether or not students can communicate with one another.

So they could if you allowed it. If you just want them to post answers and not be able to communicate with one another, there's a off button on the stream. On the question stream, I should say. This page that we're looking at looks very similar to the student side. Students and teachers both see stream. This is where all the assignments are posted. This is where all of the questions are posted. It's just one big long list of things that the teacher adds to class. Or if the teacher allows the student to add to the class, all right?

Now, I'm going to pop over to another browser because I wanted to sign in with a different account so that you could see what it looks like as a student. So I'm using Firefox for this one. Do you have to use Chrome to use Classroom? No. You can use any browser you want.

I would recommend Chrome. The only reason I'm using Firefox right now is because I can't be signed into two accounts at the same time in Chrome and show you this. So I've used Firefox for the student and Chrome for the teacher.

So the student view, when they sign into the Classroom, here's the stream. And instead of seeing students as we see right here on the teacher side, these students see classmates. So if they have any classmates, and this poor student only has themselves in this class, but if there were more classmates they would see them listed here.

They would also be able to, if the teacher allowed it, communicate with those students within Classroom. The teacher can control that. So this student has looked at the first assignment and actually submitted it. And because the teacher has allowed it, they've also posted a question. What's the difference if we use Chrome or Firefox or whatever, OK?

So this student has posted this. Because they submit an assignment, they see that they submitted it and it's done. Done does not mean graded. It just means that they finished what the teacher asked them to do in their mind, OK? They can always go back and open an assignment and redo it if the teacher allows. They can delete what they've uploaded if the teacher allows. It's up to you as a teacher how much control you give the students on what they-- how they can submit their assignments.

I'm going to minimize the student here so we can get back to the teacher. From this area here, you as a teacher, you're going to want to see who's in your class. Here are your students, OK? This is the class code. This is what you can send to your students or you can invite your students.

Remember, you can communicate with students through Classroom. And actually, you're communicating with students through Google-- the Google set of tools. So what's the Google communication system? It's Gmail, right? Whether or not your club or pub, it doesn't matter. It's going to be using that email system, that Gmail system.

So we're going to click Invite students here. And I'm going to invite-- I don't think I remember her. Hey, Marjorie, send me your email address. There's a student here-- oh, thank you, Penny. I didn't know you were in here. OTAN teacher Penny. So I'm going to invite teacher Penny. And Marjorie, if you type in your address real quick-- and I tell you what, if anybody types in their Gmail address within the next five, ten seconds, I will add it. But it has to be Gmail.

All right, and that means that I'm going to have to-- where is the communication at? No, I don't see it.

The little pop ups are adding really slow. So hang on a sec. I got to figure out how to pause and annotate so I can get you guys' email addresses. Options. Yeah, not letting me. Oh, gosh. Gotta love it.

All right, so if you want to type it in again I'm going to give it another three seconds. I'm sorry, they just popped up and popped down a little too fast for me to read it. So I've got Penny and I've got Diana. Marjorie, yours started with a B, that's all I got. Oh, here it is. ButterDVD here we go.

And if anybody else wants to type their email address in real quick-- I can't see the chat anymore. Parker and Veronica, OK? Parker and Veronica @gmail. OK, so I've got four of you.

So I'm going to-- I've typed in all the email addresses. I'm going to-- and you can type more or you can select them all from, maybe, a spreadsheet and paste them in, which is really cool. And I'm going to hit Invite. What's going to happen when I hit Invite is they're going to get an email over Gmail.

And it'll say SCOE tech, the name of the teacher, has invited you to a class. And they're going to see a little blue join button. They don't get the code. They won't see the code. What they will see is that email address. And then the Join button with the email address. They'll see the email message and then they'll have a join button.

So that's one way to get students into your class. Another way-- and you guys go ahead and check your Gmail. And if you want to go ahead and accept or hit Join. The other way that you can do this is to display the code. So you're in a Classroom and you want everyone to see this. Now, that's a little small.

Well, they have this button right here, which looks, actually, similar to the Adobe Connect expand screen. So I'm going to hit that. And now, I've got a really big code window that I can project to my class. We're in a lab. We're all together. We all have maybe a Chromebook card or a laptop card and we're all-- or even an iPad card. They can all see this. And they can type in the code as they see it.

It is case sensitive. I could also copy this code and send it to somebody. So lots of ways to invite a student. But they have to do the work. You can't just add them to your class. When you do this through a pub or in a club, you're going to have to have them join your class. So I'm going to exit this view.

As people accept or they will join your class, you will see them populate. So I know that we have Meho here. We have Marjorie O, we have Veronica Parker, and teacher Penny. So we have four students in my class, OK? D. Batista has yet to accept the invitation. And I know that because she's still listed as invited.

And that's OK. I can always email them again. So just by selecting-- and if Marjorie had not accepted the invitation as well I could select those two. And then, hit email again and the same email is sent. So we can sort by last name, sort by first name, however-- there's lots of-- not too many controls, but lots of things that you can do here.

As students See comments again. See comments again? I'm not sure what that meant. Should I go back to-- should I stop sharing? All right, something's wonky. Like class discussion. OK, I have no idea what you're talking about right now. So I'll figure it out. Hang on just a sec. There's a method to my madness here.

After I invite students to a Classroom, then they can start doing what's already in the Classroom. So if I go back to stream here and we have-- oh, OK. So we have-- do you get an A now? No, you don't get an A. So from here, I can see who's done what, OK?

I can see the comments. As I post more, I will see more as the teacher. As the students do more, I will see more as well. And I don't know if you just saw what I just did, but from the stream, I saw that I had one that had completed the first assignment, install Chrome.

So I'm going to click that done. Or I could click the not done, it doesn't really matter. But once I do that, what I'm getting into is called the student work. This is also where the grade book is. What I'm going to call the grade book.

Because as students complete their assignments, they're separated into two sections. One is done and one's not done. Done does not mean graded. It just means that it was done. So from here, I can select this student and I can add a grade.

Google just added the decimal grading system. So you could do 90.5 if you wanted to. This is worth 100 points. It has to be a number. So we'll get 90 out of 100 there, OK? I'm not really sure that student did exactly what I wanted them to because the assignment that they turned in has the picture of a Google page, not the picture of a Chrome page.

Well, how do I know that? Because it's in my drive. So right here is the folder for this assignment. And if I click it, it will open up in my drive, OK? And here's what was submitted. And if I look at the information for it-- so preview. There is what was submitted. The instructions were to take a picture of Chrome once it was installed on their computer-- on the student computer, OK?

Now, that may be beyond some of your students. But it was all I could think of this morning to make someone do. So if I go back, I want you to look at this path here. This is my account, SCOEtech@gmail.com So it's a public account. This is my drive. Classroom created a Classrooms folder for me, it created the Class folder for me, and it created the Assignment folder for me. I didn't do any of this. I did not do any of this. Classroom did at all.

So everything that I need is right here in my drive. And somewhere in here is going to be-- was it Classrooms? So you can see the drill down of it. Here's the Classroom. So here are all of my classes that I have created. And you were here when you saw me. You saw that I created the online workshop Classroom, correct?

There is nothing there for that work or for that Classroom because I don't have any assignments in it yet. So it doesn't create anything for you beyond the Classrooms folder. You can create as many classes as you want. But it won't do anything-- it won't create any more folders, I should say, until after you create an assignment or get a student in. There has to be some action done within that class. Not the Classroom, but some action in the class.

So that's why the Online Workshops folder isn't here yet. You should also see-- and I'm going to zoom in on this, I hope. Here we go. You see this folder has a little silhouette of someone. That means it is shared. As soon as you create a Classroom, it is shared. It's only shared with the people that you have added to your class. You can add another teacher to your class so you can be co-teachers. You can add another-- a student to your class.

So as soon as you share something with someone, you get that folder that has a little silhouette on it. Same thing with Classroom. So I hope that kind of explains the pairing or how the drive is connected to your Classroom.

And we're back to this assignment. Now we have two that are done, OK? So let's see, we're going to go here. And we've got Meho did one. And Penny did one. No attachments. So what she has done. But yeah, there's nothing there for me to see. So I'm going to go back here into the folder. I'm going to see, nope, there's nothing there.

So sorry, Penny. What I can do from here is I can communicate with my student and say, I need a picture for this assignment. Or I want you to rewrite this paragraph so I can grade it. Or I'm going to give you 20 out of 100. And when you redo the assignment, then I will revisit your grade.

So the teacher has a lot of options. Just because you-- you're not set in stone, OK? Just like a real grade book. You're not set to as soon as you hit 90 out of 100 that's what they're going to get. No. I can always change this grade or I can give them another chance or I can add to the assignment. Whatever the teacher wants to do, that's what's going to happen.

What else can I show you here? So on Chrome, this is the assignment itself. Just the assignment. I went to instructions just to make sure that I gave the right instructions. If I find that I didn't, always look for the three dots whenever you're in a Classroom because that means more, OK? I can delete this assignment, which I don't want to do. Or I can edit it.

So if the instructions weren't exactly clear, all the students are doing different things or they're doing it different ways, maybe my instructions weren't clear. I can always change it, OK?

Now, let's go and add an assignment. I'm going to click the plus-- I'm not going to click anything, actually. I'm going to hover over the plus symbol. I'm going to click on assignment. So I want you to see this. We're adding this to the drive add-ons class into all students. I'm going to put a title in here. Testing.

And then, I'm going to put in-- I could put in some instructions. But I'm going to-- let's see. Testing your docs. There we go. Create a doc and submit it to-- I'll just submit it. There we go. When you create an assignment, you're not required to put instructions. I mean, you don't have to do that. It helps the students. But you don't have to do that.

You do not have to put a due date, either. But if you do, then your students will get reminders that something is due. You do not have to put a time. The default is always the 11:59 PM of the date that you select. You can always change that. I'm going to go ahead and leave it.

The topic here is-- it's really important here. Remember, everything is in the stream. It's a very big, long list of all of the assignments, all of the questions, all of the announcements. It just goes on and on and on and on.

So if you create a topic, students will be able to find assignments by a topic. And it makes it a lot easier for them. So we're going to go ahead and create a topic called-- and I'm going to have a lot of assignments that have to do with docs. So I'm creating a topic called Docs. Now, your assignments, they're going to be more maybe ESL related or CTE related or computer related, if you're teaching computers within a CTE lab.

So your topics can be anything you want. Don't get so specific, though, that it only relates to one assignment, OK? The topics should be more broad. Should encompass more assignments or questions or announcements, OK? So I'm going to call this topic docs. And I'm going to-- at this point, what I could do is upload a document that I've created.

And I'm going to go ahead and do that. I'm going to click my Drive button. And I'm going to just select an agenda. Means absolutely nothing. I need to show you something here. From here, here's the agenda, students can view the file. Now remember, you were on Google Drive. We're connecting Classroom to drive, right?

So it has the same sharing capabilities plus a little more. What you can do from here-- not only can students view the file, but you can have them all edit the same file at the same time. If you do that, make absolutely sure you want to because having students all edit the same file at the same time is like herding cats. So good luck with that.

Unless you assign them numbers, like maybe for a slides presentation, you all want-- you want them to all create a slide about themselves, let's say. Or create a slide about a project that you're all working on. So you assign them all numbers. OK, Penny, your slide one. Marjorie, your slide two. Diana, your slide three, and so on.

So they each know their slide number. Then, when they open up the slides presentation, they know their number, they go to their numbered slide, and that's all they work on, OK? But again, that would be with edit rights and all of them are on the same file.

Or here's the caveat right here. Make a copy for each student. So what's happening with this is that a copy of whatever you decide-- whatever you upload from your drive is made for each student. They don't have access to your original. You're actually making a copy of it for them and it's put in their drive in their Classroom folder.

From here, I can assign it or I can schedule it. I don't want them to get this until next week. So I'm going to hit schedule. And I'm going to hit Monday of next week. It'll be open at 8:00 AM and schedule. Oh.

Now, why don't we see that? Why isn't it here? It's not in my stream. Because it's being held, OK? It's being held for the students and also being held for the teacher. Can I still see it as the teacher? Sure. It actually is in this little box right here, saved post. Because it is saved. It's not ready yet. It's saved.

So when I click on it, here it is right here. Testing my box. And why would I want to do this? Oh no, I forgot to add some instruction. So I can click on it now and I can add my instructions at this point. And then, schedule it or maybe make it a Tuesday instead of a Monday, OK?

Notice here are the topics. And when you start using Classroom, if you start using Classroom, you're going to have a lot of posts in your stream. You're going to have assignments, you're going to have questions, you're going to have announcements. There's a lot of stuff to this. So when you click on a topic, that is all that's going to show up. So it helps you organize or helps you find, actually, the things that you want to see a lot better.

Not only on the teacher side, but-- let me go back to the student side. I'm going to hit Refresh because I actually added the assignment and did a bunch of stuff. And I see that one of my classmates has done some stuff, OK? And I'm going to hit Install. There we go.

So if I had a big long stream and I'm a student that waits until the last minute to do something and I need to find the assignment that I haven't done yet and I just got a reminder for, I'm going to use this Topic button instead of trying to find the assignment, OK?

I'm going to come back into the room, I think. Yeah, it's not letting me. Wow. Hang on just a sec, folks. There we go. I'm going to pause and annotate. There we go. That's a good one. I'm going to come back into the room real quick so I can see if I missed any questions. And if you have any questions right now, then we can-- I can answer them. So does anybody have any questions so far? Are we good?

Diana, I do not see my invite. Oh, that's actually a question. So if you don't-- if you invite a student as a teacher, you invite a student to a class and you send off an email and they come back and say, teacher, I don't see it. It's not there.

Well, chances are, you sent it to the wrong person, OK? Or you typed in the wrong address. And remember, it has to be club to club or pub to pub. So if you're on a club, if you have something like @school.edu and you tried to share it with @gmail.com, that's not going to work, OK?

You can only invite learners with a Gmail account, not Hotmail, Yahoo, or Outlook. That is correct. Remember, Classroom is attached to drive. So unless you have a drive account, it's not going to work. So can you create a Gmail account using an Outlook, Yahoo, or Hotmail account? Sure. You can, actually.

If someone ever shares something with you and they shared it with your Outlook account, it will have you sign in. And as soon as you do that, whether you know it or not, you've actually created an Outlook account using Gmail. Or actually, I should say you've created a Google account using Outlook.

So yes you can. Do you want to? No because it will be confusing. It will be very confusing to people. Not only to the students but to you as well. Because when you tell everybody, OK, everyone, open up your Gmail and go to blah. Your students will follow your directions. They'll go to Gmail and they'll type in @gmail.com and it won't work. And then, they'll wonder why. And you'll wonder why.

And 9 times out of 10, it'll take hours and hours and lots of headbanging before you, oh, it's the Yahoo. So OK, go to @gmail.com, go to gmail.com, but then sign in with your Yahoo account. So it's just really confusing. And I highly recommend that you do not do it. I usually tell people that it won't work just so they won't do it. So essentially, I lie.

But it saves them a lot of grief in the long run. So does anybody else have any questions? No? OK, I'm going to go back to the presentation real quick. Let's see, where's my resume? There's my resume. And we're going to go here. Because I've actually shown you quite a lot. And I want to make sure I didn't miss anything.