25 Ways To Use Google Classroom

Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. Google Classroom is available to schools with a Google Apps for Education (GAfE) domain. Classroom is a way to get all of your students in one place and allows you to easily assign work and for students to turn it in.

Here I mention the 25 things you can do with Google Classroom.

1. When an assignment, lesson, or unit doesn’t work, add your own comments–or have students add their own feedback), then tag it or save it to a different folder for revision.
2. Align curriculum with other teachers.
3. Share data with professional learning community.
4. Keep samples of exemplar writing for planning.
5. Tag your curriculum.
6. Solicit daily, weekly, by-semester, or annual feedback from students and parents using Google Forms.
7. Share anonymous writing samples with students.
8. See what your assignments look like from the students’ point-of-view.
9. Flip your classroom. The tools to publish videos and share assignments are core to Google Apps for Education.
10. Communicate assignment criteria with students.
11. Let students ask questions privately.
12. Let students create their own digital portfolios of their favorite work.
13. Create a list of approved research sources. You can also differentiate this by student, group, reading level, and more.
14. Post an announcement for students, or students and parents.
15. Design more mobile learning experiences for your students–in higher ed, for example.
16. Have students chart their own growth over time using Google Sheets.
17. Share due dates with mentors outside the classroom with a public calendar.
18. Email students individually, or as groups. Better yet, watch as they communicate with one another.
19. Create a test that grades itself using Google Forms.
20. Design digital team-building activities.
21. Create a paperless classroom.
22. Share universal and frequently-accessed assignments–project guidelines, year-long due dates, math formulas, content-area facts, historical timelines, etc.
23. Administer digital exit slips.
24. Instead of homework, assign voluntary “lesson extensions” for students. When questions arise about mastery or grades, refer to who accessed and completed what, when.
25. Create folders of miscellaneous lesson materials. digital versions of texts, etc.