More from Google Classroom

By Anonymous -
It's been a while since I posted, especially about Google Classroom updates. The team at Google Classroom has been busy and super responsive to feedback from its user community. Since the last time I wrote about it, they've made a bunch of changes. I just wanted to highlight the ones that I think make the most impact on teachers in my district, I've created the list below:


  • Mobile app updates:
    • Add/Edit assignments - This is big for users who want to be able to manage their Classroom pages from anywhere.
    • Grade student work - This is also great for teachers who like to work via mobile devices or in our 1:1 iPad classrooms.
    • Take a photo to post to the stream or on assignments - This also great for our mobile teachers who want to share products from other students, class notes, or anything else out to the class right from their mobile device.
  • Add other teachers as co-teachers.
    • Not only has the Classroom team worked on making it more mobile friendly, but they've done on other major upgrade that is great for teachers. We can now add other teachers as co-teachers in Google Classroom. This allows more flexibility for teachers to help each other, or some teachers who job-share, to share the workload and not have to create separate classes just because they don't share one account. 
  • Make draft assignments
    • Teachers can proactively create assignments and publish when it's time for students to see them
    • Also, we can release assignments during class when students need access to them instead of doing it all ahead of time or taking time during class to prepare it and send it out.
  • And many more!
See this page from Google Classroom Help that outlines all the changes made since Google Classroom was released in August of 2014.


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