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Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for joining today's webinar on Google Classrooms with Melinda Holt.

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A webinar screen. The main window reads "Nothing is being shared." There is a list of participants, a chat window, and a box in the lower left corner listing one handout, Classroom Basics dot P.D.F.

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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

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Melinda's computer desktop appears in the main window.

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I'm going to-- oops. I wasn't on the right one. Here we go. We're going to present. Woohoo. Here we go.

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A PowerPoint slideshow fills the main window with the title, Melinda's credentials, and a series of logos.

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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.

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A slide listing the eight agenda objectives. A clip art cartoon of two men doubled over in laughter with the text bubble, "In one hour? Bwahahaha."

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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.

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Title screen, What is Classroom, beside an empty chalkboard.

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So what is Classroom?

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Text appears on the chalkboard as she speaks.

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Google Classroom is a blended learning platform.

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The B, L, and P are highlighted.

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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.

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The text disappears. A new title screen, Who Can Use Google Classroom, and new text appears on the chalkboard as she speaks it.

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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.

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On the left, the title G Suites, with two pictures. One is a bar setting with mugs of beer labeled PUB. The other is a dining room with coffee mugs labeled E.D.U.. Text appears on the blackboard.

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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.

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A slide labeled "Open or Closed. Not all E.D.U.s have the same type of club." There are four examples.

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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.

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The blackboard slide again. On the left, a title, at gmail dot com accounts can use Classroom. The right side lists "Points to Ponder."

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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.

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A quiz question appears with four answer choices.

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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?

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The four options are A, at gmail dot com, B, google classroom, C, at district dot E.D.U., and D, drive.

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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.

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Options A and C become highlighted.

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Boom. Here we go. Those are the answers. So A and C, OK? So you got that right.

Now, next pop quiz.

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A second question appears with four options.

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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]

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Options A and D become highlighted.

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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.

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The slideshow fills the window, and the next slide appears. "Why Use Classroom" on the left, and text appears on the right as she speaks.

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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.

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On the next slide, a series of text boxes pop up too fast to read.

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And here's some more reasons. Because it does all of this. And why it's doing that I don't know.

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The text boxes settle.

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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.

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The blackboard slide again. On the left, a title, more reasons to use Classroom. Text appears on the right side as she speaks.

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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.

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A slide with the title, then the text "There may be a quiz."

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So info for first time students and teachers.

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The next slide is called First Time Teachers. An asterisk is footnoted, "Choose a role, teacher or student, wisely." A screenshot of the Classroom website appears with an arrow pointing to a plus sign in the upper right corner.

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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.

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Next slide, First Time Students. A screenshot of another window on the Classroom website. An arrow points to a drop-down menu listing the choices Student and Teacher.

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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?

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Title slide.

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So teachers class.

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The next shows the Teacher Home page on Classroom and arrows pointing to various functions, such as entering a class title and opening a class folder in Drive.

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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.

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The next slide is called Creating a class. The text reads, Click the plus by your addy, click "create class," type in the class name and section. Arrows indicate where these functions appear on the website.

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This is how you create a class. It's really simple to do. Very easy.

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Next slide is Teacher's Class Home, with a screenshot of the website. Arrows highlight the various sections of the page. The Menu icon is an icon of three short lines in the upper right corner, Work Due is a box on the left side where you grade and view submits. Below that is Topics, add for quick finds/sorts, and below that is Stream, student convos appear if enabled. A bar across the middle of the screen has an option for Stream, which is highlighted, an option for Students, labeled class code, manage roster, email students, and an option for About, labeled invite teacher, add materials, Drive folder, and calendar. There is a vertical column of buttons labeled Add in the bottom right-- Announcements, assignments, questions, reuse post.

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This is what you look-- see when you get to your home page, OK? And then, the class for-- wait,

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The slideshow skips a slide, then returns to a title slide.

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student's class page.

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The blackboard slide again. On the left, a title, Wait, how do students join a class? The right side lists text.

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Teachers can invite students or they can give-- uh oh, I see something jumping. Hang on.

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Her computer desktop appears, and she closes a dialog box, then returns to the slideshow.

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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.

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Next slide has text describing how a student would join a class with an invitation. An arrow indicates a blue box labeled Join on a screenshot of the Classroom website.

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And we could join class with invitation. This is how students would join, OK?

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Next slide has text for how to join with a code. Text, sign into Classroom, click plus sign next to email address, type or paste class code and click Join. On a screenshot, the plus sign is circled indicating a picture of the dialogue.

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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.

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An internet window appears with the Google home screen.

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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.

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She types the address and the Google Classroom home page appears. There are three boxes below a gray banner.

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I've already created some classes. If I come here the first time, this plus sign here

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The mouse cursor indicates a plus sign on the right side of the banner across the top of the page.

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would be, basically, the only thing I would see. So I would click that.

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A menu appears with the options Join Class or Create Class.

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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.

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The mouse cursor selects Create a Class from the plus sign menu and a dialogue box appears. Text, Using Classroom at a school with students, followed by legal small print. There is a box to check, then the option Continue becomes active.

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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.

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Another dialogue box appears after Continue is clicked with three text boxes to type into.

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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.

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The option boxes are Cancel and Create.

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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.

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A new page appears called Online Workshop, identical to the Class homepage from the slideshow.

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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.

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She indicates the Menu button in the upper left corner.

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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.

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A drop down menu appears listing all of the classes, as well as an option for Calendar and Classes. The mouse runs over Classes.

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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.

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The mouse drags one class box to a different order.

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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

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She clicks on a class called Drive and a screen with text related to the class appears.

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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.

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She minimizes a menu bar unrelated to Classroom.

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Hang on just a sec.

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In Classroom, there is large text, Install Chrome, beside 1 Done, 0 Not Done.

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There we go.

All right, so right here, I've already added one assignment. And I have a student that's already completed something.

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She indicates the lowest Add button in the lower right corner.

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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.

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The mouse moves to the box in the lower left of the screen, called Stream.

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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.

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A nearly identical looking page opens in the Firefox browser.

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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.

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She indicates the bar across the top of the page with three options-- Stream, About, and the middle word is different on both browsers.

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And instead of seeing students as we see right here on the teacher side, these students see classmates.

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She clicks Classmates on the Firefox browser. Only one student's name appears.

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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.

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We return to the student's home page.

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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.

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The mouse indicates green text on the page, Done, next to a check mark icon.

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Done does not mean graded. It just means that they finished what the teacher asked them to do in their mind, OK?

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The mouse indicates a button next to the assignment labeled Open.

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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.

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The Firefox browser minimizes. The mouse cursor clicks "Students" on the banner.

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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?

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The mouse indicates a box to the left of the class list.

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This is the class code. This is what you can send to your students

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The mouse indicates a button labeled "Invite Students."

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
A dialogue box appears, labeled "Type a name or email."

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to invite-- I don't think I remember her.

(DESCRIPTION)
She begins typing M-A, and a list of email addresses appear.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
Email addresses appear in the chat box.

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

(DESCRIPTION)
She begins typing an address and no list of emails immediately appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse moves to the computer's docket.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
Three email contacts are typed into the Invite Students dialogue box.

(SPEECH)
And if anybody else wants to type their email address in real quick-- I can't see the chat anymore. Parker and Veronica, OK?

(DESCRIPTION)
A fourth email is added.

(SPEECH)
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

(DESCRIPTION)
A drop down menu from the class code appears, and the Display option is selected. A random set of characters appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse indicates an icon in the bottom right, and the code enlarges.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The code disappears. The list of students in the class is now longer than it was.

(SPEECH)
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

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse clicks a checkbox next to D. Batista and then selects Email from a drop down menu under the Actions heading.

(SPEECH)
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

(DESCRIPTION)
In the chat box, Penny typed "See comments again." 

(SPEECH)
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

(DESCRIPTION)
Back on the Stream view, Penny has typed a comment in the Classroom stream, "Do I get an A now?"

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks the "1 Done" text next to the Install Chrome assignment, and a new screen appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
She checks a box next to the name Me Ho.

(SPEECH)
Google just added the decimal grading system. So you could do 90.5 if you wanted to.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks a box beside the name Me Ho that says Add Grade.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse runs over an icon of a folder in the main window of the assignment page.

(SPEECH)
So right here is the folder for this assignment. And if I click it,

(DESCRIPTION)
A new window appears with one file listed beneath a filename path.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks the file, and a screenshot of the Google home screen appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse indicates the full path name, My Drive, Classrooms, Drive Add-Ons, Install Chrome.

(SPEECH)
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?

(DESCRIPTION)
In the left column is a list of shortcut paths, and the mouse clicks Classrooms.

(SPEECH)
So you can see the drill down of it. Here's the Classroom. So here are all of my classes that I have created.

(DESCRIPTION)
A list of class names appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The web page text gets larger and the mouse indicates the folder icon beside one of the classroom names.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The screen returns to the assignment page.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse clicks Penny's name, and nothing appears on the next screen.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
There is still only one file on the pathway for this class.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to see, nope, there's nothing there.

So sorry, Penny.

(DESCRIPTION)
The screen returns to the Assignment page.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The banner on this page has an Instructions options. The mouse clicks it and a new page appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
On the new page, three vertical dots are displayed on the right side of the header.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
From the drop down menu, Edit is selected, and a dialogue box appears.

(SPEECH)
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?

(DESCRIPTION)
She returns to the main class page and moves the mouse over a plus sign in the bottom right.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
A new dialogue box appears.

(SPEECH)
We're adding this to the drive add-ons class into all students. I'm going to put a title in here.

(DESCRIPTION)
She types Testing in the title box.

(SPEECH)
Testing.

And then, I'm going to put in-- I could put in some instructions. But I'm going to-- let's see.

(DESCRIPTION)
More text appears in the title box.

(SPEECH)
Testing your docs. There we go.

(DESCRIPTION)
Text appears in the Instructions box.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
Beneath the instructions box, there is a drop down menu labeled Due Date.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
To the right of the Due Date menu is a Topic menu.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the topic menu, the option Create Topic is selected.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse indicates an icon that resembles the triangle of the Google Drive icon.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to go ahead and do that. I'm going to click my Drive button.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse selects a file.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to just select an agenda.

(DESCRIPTION)
That file's name now appears in the Create Assignment dialogue box.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
Beside the file's name, a drop down menu has options for student access.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The "Make a Copy" option is selected. The mouse then hovers to the blue Assign button, which has a drop down menu triangle attached to it. The drop menu appears with options.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
A calendar appears.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to hit Monday of next week. It'll be open at 8:00 AM and schedule. Oh.

(DESCRIPTION)
On the classroom page, the new assignment does not appear on the stream. For the Install Chrome assignment, the number next to done is now 3.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse runs over a long box labeled "Saved Posts."

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The scheduled assignment appears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The same assignment dialogue box appears.

(SPEECH)
And then, schedule it or maybe make it a Tuesday instead of a Monday, OK?

Notice here are the topics.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse indicates a box on the left column labeled Topics. Docs is an option below.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
Some of the data in the stream disappears.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the Firefox browser, the Student page's stream is updated.

(SPEECH)
And I see that one of my classmates has done some stuff, OK? And I'm going to hit Install.

(DESCRIPTION)
The Install Chrome assignment is clicked.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse clicks over into the computer's dock menu icons again.

(SPEECH)
Yeah, it's not letting me. Wow. Hang on just a sec, folks. There we go.

(DESCRIPTION)
There is no noticeable change.

(SPEECH)
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?

(DESCRIPTION)
There are some questions in the chat box, including one from Diana.

(SPEECH)
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.

(DESCRIPTION)
The slideshow fills the main window screen again.

(SPEECH)
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.

All right, we're going to go back to present. Back to present. There we go.

(DESCRIPTION)
A text slide labeled Student Points to Ponder.

(SPEECH)
So student points to ponder. EDU students, once they join a class with the role of student, they're good to go. But if they have the role of teacher, remember, you're going to have to ask your network administrator to change their role, which is really easy for your administrator to do. But it might take time because they're not on site or you don't know who the network administrator is.

Don't ask Google to change the role for an EDU student or a club student because it won't happen. Google has no control over the EDU or club accounts. And I see I got a question coming in here. So I got to go out.

(DESCRIPTION)
Penny typed, Can you share that slide deck?

(SPEECH)
The slide deck is shared as a PDF. So hang on just a sec. So pub students, you can have dual roles. When you're on the pub, Google doesn't know if you're a teacher or student. So you can be either. You don't have a role per se.

So if you're pub student starts their own class with other students, you don't really have a lot of control over that. Here's the thing, though. If you don't tell them they can do it, they won't. So I wouldn't really worry about it. The only thing that this says that you might want to consider is that teachers can't see other teachers courses unless they're invited.

So you can share a class with a pub teacher. And then, be co-teachers. And the co-teacher-- if you create the class, you're the owner of it. You can do anything you want to that class. The co-teacher can also do anything they want but they cannot delete the class.

(DESCRIPTION)
The next slide is a screenshot of the Student Class page in Classroom, with the sections labeled with arrows.

(SPEECH)
The student home page, we glossed over this a little bit. So basically, the same thing that a teacher sees, you see the stream, you see the topics, you can view the assignments. We didn't see the calendar so I'll do that real quick.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse indicates an icon in the bottom right corner labeled Post.

(SPEECH)
The post AQAs or post questions, comments, right here, they're not allowed to post assignments because they're students, right?

They will be able to see whether or not their work is done or not done. And remember, done doesn't mean graded. It just means that it's done. And I think we did most of this.

(DESCRIPTION)
Three slides scroll very quickly.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to go out real quick.

(DESCRIPTION)
In edit view, the list of slides in the presentation scrolls down.

(SPEECH)
We went over the grading. Access and grading page. And please remember that this is a three hour workshop. So I'm going over this really quick only because we only have an hour a half to go. Actually, we only have about 25 minutes to go here.

So we've done most of this. Yes, go ahead.

I'm sorry, there is a question.

I'm sorry, go ahead.

Miss Patel wants to know, can you also monitor the number of hours in Google Classroom doing assignments?

What a great question. That's an awesome question. And the answer is no. Google does not have a time or a timer on it. Well, short answer, no. So that would be great if it did. One of the great things about Google is that it listens to its teachers. So that would be a good request to put on the Classroom forum. And if enough teachers ask for it, it usually happens.

So one of the things that I did want to show you-- let's go back to this--

(DESCRIPTION)
In the teacher Classroom page on the Chrome browser, the mouse clicks into the Saved Post, then the title of the secheduled assignment, Testing Your Docs. The dialogue box appears.

(SPEECH)
hang on. There we go. Right here. So for after you assign an assignment, you can't really do much with it. You can do a little bit, but not much. But if you see here, these are all my students, right?

(DESCRIPTION)
A drop down menu item is labeled All Students. When dropped down, a list of all students in the class appear, and the checkboxes beside their names are all checked.

(SPEECH)
So I've assigned this assignment to everyone in my class.

Because it hasn't started yet, because I scheduled it for next week, I can actually go, oh, I didn't wanted it to go to all my students.

(DESCRIPTION)
Clicking the checkbox beside All Students removes all checks.

(SPEECH)
I only wanted to go to Marjorie and Penny, OK?

(DESCRIPTION)
Only those students' names are checked.

(SPEECH)
So you can assign to specific students. And that was actually a request made by me and my teachers on Google Classroom forum. So they did that.

And they went an extra mile-- let me show you-- this chat pod is just a pain. I'm sorry, folks. I'm trying to see things and it's precluding me. Here we go.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse rolls over the plus symbol in the bottom right of the main Class stream window.

(SPEECH)
Here's my plus symbol, right? So I'm going to go in and I'm going to open another assignment.

(DESCRIPTION)
A new blank Assignment dialogue box opens.

(SPEECH)
But do you see how-- this is enabled now.

(DESCRIPTION)
A drop down menu item is labeled Drive Add-Ons. When the menu is opened, all classes are listed.

(SPEECH)
So if I want this assignment to go to a different class along with this class, let's say we're doing the same exact assignment and I don't want to have to create it twice. This class is defaulted. So it has to be selected. But I could also select another class.

Now, all of those classes or all of those students in those two classes will get this new assignment, whatever it is.

(DESCRIPTION)
Under title, text appears, New Assignment.

(SPEECH)
So new assignment. And again, you don't have to put a due date if you don't want to. You don't have to put a topic. Put drive just in case. And you can share videos. You can share links off site. You can share attachments. And you can share directly through your drive.

You can upload files. You can upload Word files. You can upload PowerPoints. You can upload anything you want into an assignment and it goes into your drive into that Classroom folder.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse indicates the blue Assign button's drop down menu.

(SPEECH)
Remember here, I can assign it or I can save it as draft because I want to save it for later, right? Or if I say, yeah, I don't really do this. I can delete. Boom. Done, OK?

(DESCRIPTION)
The Delete option is selected, and we return to the main Class stream.

(SPEECH)
Let's see. I'm trying to think of-- oh, once you create a class, you're able to go in and change things, OK? You don't have to stay with what you started with.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks the three vertical dots in the window with the Drive Add-Ons title. New blank text boxes appear.

(SPEECH)
So drive add-ons. If I want to edit the title of the class or if I want to add a description or where does the class meet optional. See online.

(DESCRIPTION)
She types "Online."

(SPEECH)
And then save it. So that will appear now as the room for my students.

And you can change that anytime. If the room changes because your site's getting rebuilt, you can always change a room. I wanted to show you the calendar. So calendar in Classroom is not your Google Calendar. And yet, it is.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse clicks "About" in the banner at the top of the Class page.

(SPEECH)
Let's click on-- I went to about the class. This is just another way to get to calendar.

(DESCRIPTION)
The mouse selects the option Classroom Calendar on the left column, and a weekly calendar appears.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to click on Classroom Calendar. And here is a calendar. And here is an assignment due date.

(DESCRIPTION)
An assignment in a colored box appears in the February 11th column.

(SPEECH)
So this calendar will only contain assignment due dates or question due dates or announcement due dates, if they have one, OK? So only due dates are listed here. So well, I don't want to have to keep coming to Classroom to see my due dates. You don't have to. Watch this. I'm going to open up a new tab.

(DESCRIPTION)
The Google home page appears in the browser.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to go to my calendar.

(DESCRIPTION)
She types a C in the pathway and the option for Calendar autofills. A calendar appears.

(SPEECH)
And these are all my calendars. I am going to

(DESCRIPTION)
There are a list of several calendars in a column on the bottom left.

(SPEECH)
somewhere in here-- oh, I know what happened. I just shot myself in the foot. What I did-- what usually will happen is that you will see a calendar that matches your class name, OK? This is my work calendar and I'm using my work account for this demonstration.

So I actually deleted the calendars from my calendar, all right? So whatever account you are using, here we see online workshops. There's nothing do in that class. So that's why nothing is showing up here. But here is the Classroom or the class calendar for online workshops that we just created.

The other class calendars I've already deleted because I got tired of looking at them. So again, I shot myself in the foot. But all of the calendars that have due dates, all of your class calendars, will appear in your calendar, whatever account you were signed into, all right? All you have to do is go to your calendar and then enable them.

(DESCRIPTION)
As she checks the boxes next to the names of the calendars, colored boxes appear under different days.

(SPEECH)
Just hit that little checkbox next to them. And then, they'll appear just like you select your own calendar. And then, those events show up. So it's just that nothing is showing up for this one because there's no due date for online workshop. We could create one. But that would take time and yeah, not necessary. You get the idea of the calendar, I think, from this.

So I'm thinking I'm just about done here. If anybody has any questions or if there's something they've heard about Classroom that they want to see, I'm all over it. Let me know what that is. And I will do it. I'm going to stop sharing real quick.

[INTERPOSING VOICES] Boom. So I can come back in here.

(DESCRIPTION)
No noticeable change on the screen.

(SPEECH)
Do we have any questions? Oh, wow. I only got two people left. They're dropping like flies. I didn't even realize it. OK, so Ryan, it's good to see you. We did a digital badges workshop at your consortium. Glad to see you here.

So just like that workshop with digital badges, we could come and do this one for your folks as well. So everybody else left in the room it looks like. You already know me. So Ryan, unless you have some questions-- and Veronica, I think we can stop recording now. I'm going to keep the room open.