Google Classwork Tab Creating Topics & Content

The Classwork page is your home-base for class content and assignments. Teachers can post resource materials, such as a syllabus, or topic-related reading, to the Classwork page along with assignments, discussion questions, and quizzes. 

Once inside your Google Classroom class, select the Classwork tab to get started. It’s ideal to frame out Topics first to provide an organizational structure for your items to make it easier for students to locate them. Click the Create button and select topic. (Course Information) Title your topic and choose Add. (Add a second unit too - Consumer Product Review). 

 

To rearrange topics, use the More dots to move move up or move down or simply drag & drop items to the correct location.

 

To add an informational item like a syllabus, click the Create button and choose material. Add your title and optional description. Select the relevant topic. You can attach a file from your device, an item from your Google Drive, or You Tube video, or a link to anything on the web. 

 

If you choose an item from your Google Drive, the permissions will automatically be adjusted to view-only to students in the class and editable by co-teachers. You can always click on the document and adjust it’s sharing settings manually to override this. The Create material option is also ideal for sharing resource links with students. For example if I want to link the Consumer Product Review website with student, I can copy it’s address, create a new material ,and add it’s link. I am not going to select a topic just yet. 

 

If i wanted this item to post at a later time, I can use the drop down menu next to the post menu to save it as a draft or schedule a specific time for it to post. I’m ready for this one to go live now, so I will click post. Items that you do not assign a topic to will float about your topics, which can be handy for elevating materials that students need that day.

 

Later you can drag and drop it into the relevant topic. (drag into folder). And of course Items can be edited or deleted by using the 3 dots on the right. If you have materials from other courses in Google Classroom that you wish to use again, use the Reuse post option. This brings up all of your current and archived classes. Simply select the class (eng 10), and select the post (field trip permission form) You may have noticed the calendar and folder icons at the top of your classwork page. 

 

When you create a class in Google Classroom, Google automatically creates a Calendar just for this class and a course folder. When you create items with due dates, they will be automatically added to the class calendar so students can easily keep track of upcoming work.

 

Google also automatically creates a Class folder in your Google Drive and in students’ google drives named after the class to centralize all materials. Although the class folders will have the same name for teachers and students, it is definitely not the same folder. My class folder has materials I’ve posted in the class & sub-folders for quizzes and assignments. Student submissions appear here. 

 

My student’s class folder is empty, but as I use the assignment feature to send students copies of documents, each student’s copy will appear in their class folder. Creating Assignments, Quiz Assignments, and Questions are utilized when you want to collect and score responses or items from students.

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