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User Guide
Google Classroom

Updated: June, 2021

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Use this guide for step-by-step instructions on

getting started with Google Classroom

Exploring Classroom for

Administrators Teachers the first time?
Learn how to create organizational Understand how to set up your Connect with an expert and
groups, set permissions, and access classes, organize coursework, grade, learn more here.

audit logs and reports provide rich feedback, and more

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Table of Contents
Getting set up Tools for visibility and control

Sign up for Google Workspace for Access audit logs

Education

Assign users and control access View usage Reports

Verify teachers Connect Classroom to your SIS to

export grades

Change users roles

Set permissions

Enable Google Meet

Manage guardian settings Additional admin resources

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Table of Contents Tools for management and Tools to learn in their own way
organization

Getting started View assignment progress Accessibility resources

Sign in Give richer feedback Automatic due dates in calendar

Set up a class Grade with a rubric Custom student to-do list

Add students to a class Return student work Use originality reports

Create an assignment Update your gradebook

Use originality reports Export grades to your SIS

Post announcements Reuse assignments

Set up and join a Meet video call Automate guardian summaries Additional educator resources

Create a rubric
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Administrators

Getting set up ➔ Sign up for Google Workspace for Education to

enable Classroom

Easily set up Classroom for your institution. ➔ Assign users and control access by creating
Customize permissions and user roles to organizational units and groups
enable greater management of your school
➔ Verify teachers for added functionality
community.

➔ Change user roles to ensure users are identified

correctly

➔ Set permissions for your domain to determine who

can create classes
Jump to our Google Classroom Admin
resources to learn more about getting set up
➔ Enable Google Meet for enhanced collaboration
with Google Workspace for Education, FAQs
and helpful resources. ➔ Manage guardian settings to enable easier
guardian communication
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Ensure you’re signed up
for Google Workspace
for Education
We recommend signing up for Google Workspace
for Education when using Classroom to unlock
seamless integrations with tools like Google Docs,
Google Meet, Gmail and more. Classroom is already
included in Google Workspace for Education and
works with Google Workspace collaboration tools to
jumpstart learning and empower teachers. Haven’t signed up for Google Workspace for Education
Fundamentals yet? — begin a 30 day trial of our free edition*

Go to the Google Workspace for Education sign-up page and enter

Need additional features or enhancements? your details into the form

Learn more about the different editions of Google

Workspace for Education to find the right solutions
for your institution. *Free for qualifying institutions
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Ensure you’re signed up

for Google Workspace
for Education
2 Simply review the Google Workspace for
Education School Consent and Agreement
terms and click Agree and Continue

3 After you sign up, we'll share your Google

Admin console where you can verify
domain ownership and continue setting up
Visit the Google Workspace Admin Help Center to learn more.
services for your users.
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Assign users and
control access

Once you’ve registered for Google Workspace for

Education and gain access to your Google Admin
console, admins can enable access to Google
Classroom by organizational unit or by group to
ensure students and teachers have access to the
tools they need. Create organizational units
Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Learn more about organizational units and
Go to the Menu, select Directory and click Organizational
organizational structure.
units.
Hover over the organization and click Create new
organizational unit
Enter a name under Name of organizational unit and click
Create
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Assign users and
control access

Add users to an organizational unit

From the Admin console, go to Users and click the
organization the users are in now
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Assign users and
control access

At the top, click More and select Change organizational

unit.
Choose the new organization from the dialog box, click
Continue and select Change
Grant access and turn Classroom functionalities on or off
by organizational unit or group.
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Verify teachers

Verify teachers Select Google Workspace.

When users sign in to Classroom for the first time, From the Admin console, go to
Apps
they identify as a teacher or student. Once teachers
sign in, they get automatically added to the
Classroom Teachers group for Admin approval.
3
Admins must verify teachers to give them educator
access to Classroom to set up classes, create
assignments and communicate with guardians.

Learn more through our Help Center.

Click Groups for Business and on

the top right of the page, select
Edit Service

Select On for everyone to turn on

the service, and click Save
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Verify teachers

4 Then in a browser window, open the

Classroom Teachers group. Under People,
click Pending members

Next to the user’s name, check the box and

5 5
click Approve applicant or Reject
applicant
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Change user roles

Within Classroom, users are identified as either

teachers or students. If needed, administrators can
update a user’s role from student to teacher, or vice
versa to expand their permission settings.

From the Admin console, go to Users

Within the Users list, select the user’s name to open their
account page
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Change user roles

Click Groups and select Add + to change a desired role

To change a user's role from To change a user's role from

student to teacher: teacher to student:
● Click Add and enter the ● Next to the teacher group
name of the group you name, check the box and
want to add the user to. As on the right, click Remove
you enter text, Classroom
● Click Remove again
shows matching groups.
● Click your desired group
and select Add
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Set permissions

Manage role permissions for your school’s

domain by setting up teacher permissions.
Teacher permissions allow educators to create
and manage classes. From the Admin console, go to Apps and select Google Workspace
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Set permissions

2 Within the Google Workspace interface,

select Classroom from the list of services.

3 In General settings, hover over Teacher

permissions and click Edit

Choose from:

• Anyone in this domain (teachers and

students)
• All pending and verified teachers
• Verified teachers only (recommended)

Click Save to permit class creation based

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on your chosen group above.
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Enable Google Meet

Set up Meet – accessible directly within

Classroom to allow teachers to host larger*,
more secure video meetings.
Enable Google Meet

From your Admin console, click Apps, then click Google

Workspace

*Video conferencing for up to 100 users available with

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, or for up to
250 users with the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and
Education Plus editions
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Enable Google Meet

Within the Google Workspace interface, select Google Meet

from the list of services.

Next to Service status, click the down arrow

Select On for everyone or Off for everyone to adjust settings for
your entire organization and click Save
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Enable Google Meet

4 Allow users to create new video meetings:

From Meet within your Admin console,
Click Meet video settings and select your
desired organizational unit

Select Video calling and check the Let

5 users place video and voice calls box
Click Save
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Manage guardian
settings

Allow guardians to track their student’s progress

through automated email summaries and give
teachers permission to invite or remove guardians.
Turn guardian email summaries on
When email summaries are enabled, guardians are
linked to their student and can receive updates From the Admin console, click Apps
about student performance, new assignments,
Go to Google Workspace and select Classroom
approaching deadlines, and missing work.
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Manage guardian
settings
Click General settings
Under Guardian access, click Allow parents and guardians to access
Classroom information

Manage who can invite and remove guardians:

Within General settings, select Guardian access. Under Who can manage
parents and guardians? Choose between the below and click Save
● All verified teachers
● Only domain administrators
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Tools for visibility ➔ Access Classroom audit logs to investigate critical

events
and control
➔ View usage reports to monitor activity and trends
Provide a secure environment that can adapt by role
and grow to the changing needs of your
➔ Connect your SIS to Classroom so teachers can
school community.
easily export student grades
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Access Classroom
audit logs

Easily pinpoint events in Classroom right from your

Admin console. Drill down on who, what, where, and
when events happened in Classroom.

From the Admin console, go to Reports and on the left, under

Audit log, click Classroom.

Find what you need and search by event, event description,

user and timestamp.
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View usage reports

Understand usage trends and monitor Classroom

user activity in your school. For example, you can
see the number of active classes and the posts
created by teachers and students, or investigate To open a Classroom report:
issues – like who deleted a student or class. From the Admin console, go to Reports.
On the left, under Apps Reports click Classroom.
Within a report, you can:

• Adjust filters to further classify your dataset

• Download a report for reporting and 2
distribution
Scroll and point to a graph to see statistics by date.
At the bottom of Posts created, check or uncheck a box to sort by
teachers or students.
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View usage reports

3 View usage data by user:

Within Reports, select User Reports and

click Apps usage

4 Select Add a filter and then click User name

Enter the user’s name or their email address

and click their name in the list to see usage.
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Connect Classroom to First, document your OAuth credentials from your SIS.

your SIS and export Connect Classroom to your respective SIS by heading to
classroom.google.com/admin.
grades
Integrate Classroom to your school’s student
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information system (SIS) to enable teachers to link
their classes and export scores from their
gradebook.

Important: SIS export is available for these partners

with One Roster API:

• Infinite Campus users with the Campus

Learning License
• Skyward version 2.0 users with the LMS API
license
• [Coming soon] Aspen SIS Next to “select your SIS,” click the Down arrow and select
your SIS provider.
Visit the Classroom Help Center to learn more. Click Connect to Google
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Connect Classroom to
your SIS and export 3
grades
3 Under “SIS setup,” click Connect.

Enter your OAuth credentials (Host URL, Access

key, Secret code)

4 Click Authorize

5 Under “Teacher permissions,” check the box

next to “Enable classwork and grade exporting”

6 Click Save
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Google Classroom Administrator Resources

In addition to this guide, please check out additional resources designed to help admins unlock
the power of Classroom.

New to Google Empower teachers Stay Connected Need help?

Workspace? and students Keep up with the latest stories Support is available for all
and updates from Google on The Google Workspace for Education
Welcome! Learn more by Leverage our Teacher Center,
Keyword and the Google editions by phone, email, and
checking out Google Workspace Teach from Home, and Learn
Workspace Updates Blog online. Check out the Admin Help
for Education FAQs, and get from Home hubs to get the most
Center, Google for Education
started with the Quickstart IT out of Google Workspace for
Help Centers and Partners
Setup Guide. Education and Classroom
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Getting set up ➔ Sign in to get started with Classroom and visit

our Teacher Center to learn the basics

➔ Set up a class and manage communications in

Classroom is your all-in one place for
one place
teaching and learning. It’s intuitive, easy to
➔ Add students to a class by simply sending
use, and you can get started in minutes.
them a link

➔ Create an assignment and share with multiple

classes

➔ Use originality reports to help guide critical

thinking

➔ Post announcements on a class stream

➔ Set up and join a Meet video call

➔ Create a rubric to keep grading consistent

and transparent
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Sign in
To sign in:

Head over to classroom.google.com

Classroom is easy to get started, just sign in to
Click Go to Classroom
start managing your classes today.

2 3

Enter your school email If you’re using a Google

address (it looks like Workspace account click I’m a
[email protected]) and Teacher
click Next
Click Get Started
Enter your password and click
Next
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Set up a class

Create a class to assign work and post

announcement to students.
Create a class: Enter the class name and fill in
Save time by creating and managing multiple Within Classroom, open the details for your class (session,
classes from one place. Classes page and click Add grade, room, etc.)
in the upper right corner Click Create
Select Create a class
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Add students to a class

Add students through an invite link:

Invite students to enroll in your class with only
Within Classroom, select the class card and click More
a few clicks. We’ll show you the most common
ways to add students here. Select Copy invite link and share the clickable link with students via email.

If students have trouble, you can always

resend class links, or share simple instructions
to join a class as a student.

Or, add students through a unique class code:

Select your class and click Settings to display your class code.
Share the code with students and direct them to:
● Go to the Classes page on classroom.google.com.
● Click Add and select Join class.
Learn more about adding students to your class. ● Students should enter the code and click Join
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Create an assignment

Create more efficient workflows when

assigning class work. Specify due dates and
point values, add attachments and rubrics, run
originality reports and more, all within an
assignment.
Create an assignment:
Plus, save an assignment for later and share Within Classroom, click the class your assignment belongs in
with multiple classes or students. and select Classwork.
At the top, click Create and select Assignment
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Create an assignment

Add details: Add materials:

Within the assignment, enter the Within the assignment, add
title and fill in instructions and relevant attachments. Click Add
assignment details including and choose between: Google
grade category, point value, due Drive, Link, File, and YouTube
date and topic
Under the “For” category, choose
Or, click Create to add a new
to post to additional classes or
attachment
individual students

Select your file and click Upload

or Add
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Create an assignment

Next to the attachment, click Add a rubric:

the down arrow and choose an Within the assignment, click
option for how students interact Rubric + and choose to either
with the attachment:
Create rubric, Reuse rubric or
● Students can view file: use Import from Sheets
when the file is for
reference only
● Students can edit file: use Learn more about creating a
when students will work rubric.
collaboratively on the same
file
● Make a copy for each
student: use when
students will work
individually in copies of the
same file
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Create an assignment

Turn on originality reports: Choose when to post your

Within the assignment, click the assignment:
originality reports box to check ● Immediate: Click Assign to
for plagiarism automatically post the assignment now
once students submit ● Schedule: Next to Assign, click
assignments. Schedule and select a date
and time. Hit Schedule again
Learn more about running
originality reports. to save.
● Save for later: Next to Assign,
click Save draft. You can open
and edit draft assignments on
the Classwork page.
Click Assign
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Use originality
reports

Originality reports bring the power of Google

Search to your student assignments and
grading. When assigning work, enable
originality reports. When students submit their
work, originality reports highlights text against
billions of pages in the Google Search index
that the student didn’t cite or quote. Enable originality reports:

Within an assignment, click originality reports and select Assign to

share with students.
Students can run originality reports for their work to identify any
Watch the video to learn more uncited content and make edits. Once submitted, Classroom
automatically scans for plagiarism and makes results available to
teachers.
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Use originality reports

2 View the report:

Within an assignment, click the On

switch next to # of cited or quoted
passages to view highlighted web
matches.

See potential flags as a number or

3
percent. A link to the external source is
available for flagged passages.

Teachers can run originality reports for free for up

to five assignments per class.* Students can run
originality reports up to 3 times.

*For teachers using Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals. Enrolling in the Teaching and
Learning Upgrade or Google Workspace for Education Plus gives provides unlimited originality reports.
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Post announcements

Give reminders to your students by posting

announcements to your class on the class
stream.

To create an announcement: Select who to share the

Click the class you want to post announcement with:
the announcement to within Within the announcement, click
Classroom. the down arrow next to “For” and
select classes to include
On the steam page, click Share
something with your class and Or post to individual students.
enter your announcement at the Within the announcement, click
top. All students and click the
students name(s) to select them.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing
and formatting announcements
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Set up and join a Meet
video call

Connect with your students using simple,

reliable and secure video conferencing. Set up
and start class video meetings with Google
Meet built right within Classroom. Create a designated class Under General, click Generate
Meet link: Meet link
Teachers can create a unique nicknamed
In Classroom, click the class and At the top, click Save
meeting link that you and your students can use
select Settings
for all of your class meetings. A clickable Meet link will appear
for your class to join and
continue to reuse.
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Set up and join a Meet
video call
To start an instant video meeting in Classroom:
Click your desired class
On the left of the Stream page, under the Meet icon, click the
Generate link button to join instantly

Before you join the call, check that you’re signed in with your
Classroom account in Meet.

Visit the Help Center to learn more about best If not, click Switch account and sign in to your Classroom account.
practices and Meet features Click Join now
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Create a rubric

Create, reuse, and automatically calculate

grades using rubrics right within individual
assignments.

Rubrics can be saved as drafts for future use

and exported, imported, and shared with In Classroom, click the class and select Classwork
fellow teachers to help save time. Create an assignment with a title, click Rubric and click
Create rubric.
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Create a rubric
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2 Fill in your rubric details:

Criterion title the grading evaluation (ex.

Grammar, Teamwork)

Points the number of points awarded

Level title the title for performance level (ex.

Excellent, Full mastery)

Description the expectations for the level

3 Click Save

Visit the Help Center to see more rubric features

and to set up grading systems
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Teachers

Tools for ➔ View assignment progress across all classes

by status
management and
Give richer feedback through a custom
organization
➔

comment bank

Save time by grading more efficiently, ➔ Grade with a rubric right alongside an assignment
viewing student progress in one place and
automating tasks.
➔ Return student work right within Classroom

➔ Update your gradebook and view student

assignments in one place

➔ Export grades to your SIS directly from

gradebook

➔ Reuse assignments between classes

➔ Automate guardian summaries to keep parents

informed
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View assignment
progress

Get a quick overview of work you assigned

across all your classes, in one easy place.

Use this tool to see the status of your work

and mark work as reviewed. View student work across all classes:
In Classroom, click To review at the top
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View assignment
progress

Filter by class: View a list of student’s work and

Click All classes and select a its status:
class. Click a title to view Click the relevant class. At the
student submissions. top, click People and select a
student’s name.
Sort work based on due dates
by clicking the Down arrow or This page will show:
Up arrow
● student’s assigned work and
Mark work as reviewed: their due dates
Next to the work, click More ● status of assigned, turned in,
and click Mark as reviewed. late, or missing work
After you mark work as ● grades for classwork
reviewed, you can see it in the ● attachments to submissions
Reviewed list. ● Private comments the student
sent you
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Give richer feedback
on assignments

Leave a comment: Select the section that you want

Provide students with clear feedback by
Click the relevant class and to comment on and click Add a
leaving comments on submitted comment
select Classwork. Click an
assignments, or write directly on student
assignment and select View Enter your comment and click
work. assignment. Comment

Classroom automatically saves your On the left, choose the student

name and the file they turned in.
most-used feedback to a personalized and
automated comment bank.
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Give richer feedback
on assignments

Create a custom comment Or, enter a comment directly:

bank for your most used On the right of the students work,
comments: click the Comment bank.
Add an existing comment: Open
Select Add to bank and choose
the student’s work. In the
between entering a single
top-right corner of the
comment, multiple comments or
comment box, select More and
paste a list or prepared
click Add to comment bank. comments.
Make edits and click Add Click Add
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Give richer feedback

on assignments

Use a comment from the Draw or write on student work:

comment bank: In your Classroom mobile app, tap
Select the section you want to the class and open an
comment on and click Add assignment.
comment.
Tap Student work and select a
In the comment box, begin students name and their
typing your feedback and your attachment.
corresponding most-used
Click Edit and make notes or
comments will automatically
drawings.
appear. Click the comment you
want and press the Comment Click More and then Save.
button to post.
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Grade with a rubric

Add a rubric to an assignment to keep grading

consistent and transparent. Teachers can
grade student work with rubrics displayed
right alongside the assignment.

See your rubric while grading an assignment:

Select the relevant class and click Classwork. Select the assignment,
click View assignment and open a student’s file.

In the right column, click the Grading icon and expand or collapse a
criterions description in the right column.
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Grade with a rubric

Select a rating for each Manually change the total

criteria: grade:
Within Rubric, assign a rating Within Grade, manually enter a
level for each criterion. grade for the student’s
assignment.
Click a rating level for each
criteria, or if you’re using the
criterion for scoring, enter a
number.
The rubric score automatically
updates as you select rating
levels.
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Return student work

Stay organized by returning student work right

within the assignment. And share reviewed
work with one or more students at a time.
Once the assignment is returned, students are
able to view their grade.
In Classroom, select the class and click Classwork. Select the
Teachers can also return an assignment in assignment you want to return, and click View assignment.
within the Classroom gradebook.
Next to each student whose assignment you want to return, check
the box and click Return and select your preference.

Choose between:

● return this submission

● return draft grades
● return all submissions
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Update your
gradebook

Gradebook within Classroom provides one Open gradebook:

easy place to view student submissions, enter
grades, return work and review all the grades In Classroom, select the class and at the top, click Grades.
for an assignment. On the Grades page, you can view and even grade and return a
student’s submission.
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Update your
gradebook
View student submissions:
Within Grades, hover over a cell of a student’s assignment. Click More
and click View submission.
Work and grade status is color-coded:
● Red—Missing work
● Green—Turned in work or draft grade
● Black—Returned work

Enter grades and return work within gradebook:

Within Grades, enter a grade for the student’s assignment.
To return the assignment, click More and click Return.
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Export grades to
your SIS

Export grades from gradebook directly into

your Student Information System (SIS) by first
linking your class to your SIS.
First, link a class to your SIS:
Compatible SIS partners: Infinite Campus,
Skyward In Classroom, click Add and select Create class.

Coming soon: Aspen SIS Next to Link with, click the down arrow and select your class.

Enter your class details and click Create

Visit the Help Center to learn more about

exporting grades
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Export grades to
your SIS

Export grades: Grades export for any classwork

Click the class you want to with a checked box. For any
export from, and select Grades. grades you don't want to export,
uncheck the box.
On the right, click SIS export
Click SIS export to export.
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Reuse
assignments and
announcements
Save time by re-using your assignments,
announcements or other posts. Repost to the
original class or a different class.

Before publishing, make updates by modifying

the post and editing attachments or rubrics.

Reuse a post:

In Classroom, select the class and click Classwork. Hover over

Create and click Reuse post
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Reuse assignments
and
announcements
Select the class that has the post you want to reuse
Select the post and click Reuse

Change any information and add or delete attachments.

Before reposting, choose an option:
● Save the post for later. Click to Down arrow and select
Save draft
● Reuse an assignment—Click Assign
● Reuse an announcement—Click Post
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Automate guardian
summaries Turn guardian summaries on or off:
Select the class you’d like to send email summaries about
and click Settings
Keep guardians informed and engaged by
inviting them to receive automatic email
summaries of their student’s progress.
2
Choose which classes and guardians to
include in the summaries.

Under General, click the switch On of Off.

Click Add Class. And at the top of the page, click Save
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Automate guardian
summaries

To invite or remove a guardian: To email guardians:

Select the related class and Select the relevant class and click
click People People
Next to the students name, click ● To email one student’s
Invite guardians or Remove guardian: next to the student's
guardians name, select More and click
Email guardians. An email
● If inviting, enter the
window opens with the email
guardians email address(es)
addresses populated
Click Invite or Remove ● To email all guardians in a
class: At the top, click Email
All Guardians
Enter a subject and your
message. Click Send
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Teachers

Tools to learn in their ➔ Accessibility resources enable learning

opportunities for all students
own way ➔ Automatic due dates in student calendars to help
them keep track of deadlines

Help students stay focused with features ➔ Student to-do lists are customized to help them
that let them create their most productive stay organized
and customized learning environment.
➔ Student originality reports help prevent
unintentional plagiarism
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Tools to learn in their own way

Accessibility Google for

Education
Google for
Education
Google Workspace
user guide to
resources Accessibility Accessibility accessibility
Resource center flashcards

Give students the freedom to adjust

accessibility settings so they can learn and [Playlist] [Classroom] using [Chromebook]
Accessibility tips a screen reader Accessibility
work in their ideal way.
for Google with Classroom shortcuts
Workspace

Distance Learning Guardian's Guide to [Chrome

accessibility guide Accessibility extensions] Snap&
Read, Co:Writer,
EquatIO,Read &
Write
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Automatic due
dates in calendar

Enforce timelines easily with due dates that

appear automatically on calendars when
classwork is distributed.

For each class, you and your students share a

Classroom calendar and a Google Calendar View classwork in your Classroom calendar:
where deadlines appear.
At the top of Classroom, click Menu and select Calendar to
see all assignment due dates.
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Automatic due dates
in calendar

2 Select an assignment to open it and find

out more.

3 See classwork for all your classes:

Click All classes

See classwork for only one class:

Click All classes and select the class

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Show students their
custom to-do list

Enable students to stay on track and plan

ahead with Classroom’s automatically created
to-do list personalized for each student.

Direct students to view their all-class to-do list

At the top of Classroom, click To-do and choose an option:

● Click Assigned to see work that’s been assigned to you
Students can visit the Help Center to learn more ● Click Missing to see work that’s past due
ways to view class work ● Click Done to see work that a teacher graded or returned
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Tools to learn in their own way 1

Empower students
to use originality
reports
Help guide critical thinking and allow students
to check for unintentional plagiarism.

Originality reports bring the power of Google

Search to your assignments. Enable originality
reports so students can identify any uncited Empower students to run an originality report on their
content and make edits. Once submitted, assignment:
Classroom automatically scans for plagiarism
Within a class, students can click Classwork and select the
and makes results available to teachers. Assignment.

Under Your work, upload or create your file.

Students can run originality reports up to 3 times.

Next to Originality reports, click Run. Under the file name, click View
originality report to see the report and any originality flags.
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