This article is for students. Co-teachers, go here.
To use Classroom, you sign in on your computer or mobile device and join classes. After you join a class, you can get work from your teacher and communicate with your classmates.
You can join a class in 2 ways:
- Enter a class code—Your teacher shares a class code with you. You sign in to Classroom and enter the code.
- Accept an invite—Your teacher sends you an invite. You can accept the invite in your email or in Classroom.
After you join a class on one device, you're enrolled in that class for all devices.
Be sure to sign in to Classroom with the correct account. For instructions, go to How do I sign in to Classroom?
Join with a class code
Your teacher can tell you the class code. After you get the code, follow these steps:
- Go to classroom.google.com.
- Make sure to sign in with the correct account. If you're already signed in and need to switch accounts, in the top-right corner, click your profile picture
select or add your account.
- At the top, click Join class
.
- Enter the class code from your teacher and click Join.
Note: Class codes are 6-7 characters, and use letters or numbers. Codes can’t have spaces or special symbols.
Join with an invite
If your teacher invites you to join a class, you get an email invite, and you can see the class on your Classes page.
- Go to classroom.google.com.
- Make sure to sign in with the correct account. If you're already signed in and need to switch accounts, in the top-right corner, click your profile picture
- On the class card, click Join.
Trouble joining a class?
I forgot or lost the class code
My class code doesn’t work
- You’re signed in to Classroom with the correct account. Learn more.
- The code you enter is 6-7 characters long, and uses letters or numbers. Codes can’t have spaces or use special characters.
If you still have trouble, let your teacher know.
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60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom
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.
Align curriculum with other teachers.
Share data with professional learning community.
Keep samples of exemplar writing for planning.
Tag your curriculum.
Solicit daily, weekly, by-semester, or annual feedback from students and parents using Google Forms.
Share anonymous writing samples with students.
See what your assignments look like from the students’ point-of-view.
Flip your classroom. The tools to publish videos and share assignments are core to Google Apps for Education.
Communicate assignment criteria with students.
Let students ask questions privately.
Let students create their own digital portfolios of their favorite work.
Create a list of approved research sources. You can also differentiate this by student, group, reading level, and more.
Post an announcement for students, or students and parents.
Design more mobile learning experiences for your students–in higher ed, for example.
Have students chart their own growth over time using Google Sheets.
Share due dates with mentors outside the classroom with a public calendar.
Email students individually, or as groups. Better yet, watch as they communicate with one another.
Create a test that grades itself using Google Forms.
Control file rights (view, edit, copy, download) on a file-by-file basis.
Have students curate project-based learning artifacts.
As a teacher, you can collaborate with other teachers (same grade by team, same content across grade level).
Encourage digital citizenship via peer-to-peer interaction that is documented.
Use Google Calendar for due dates, events outside the classroom, and other important “’chronological data.’
Communicate digitally with students who may be hesitant to ‘talk’ with you in person.
Streamline cross-curricular projects with other teachers.
Aggregate and publish commonly-accessed websites to make sure everyone has same access, same documents, same links, and same information.
Vertically-align student learning by curating and sharing “landmark” student assignments that reflect mastery of specific standards.
Encourage a common language by unpacking standards and share district-wide.
Encourage students to use their smartphones for formal learning. By accessing documents, YouTube channels, group communication, digital portfolio pieces and more on a BYOD device, students will have a chance to see their phone as something other than a purely for-entertainment device.
Create and publish ‘power standards’ (with students, other teachers, and other schools) for transparency and collaboration.
Promote peer-to-peer and/or school-to-school interactions–students with other students, students with other teachers, and teachers with other teachers.
Create ‘by-need’ groups as classes–based on reading level, for example.
Check which students have accessed which assignments.
Provide student with feedback.
Add voice comments to student writing (this requires a third-party app to do so).
Help students create content-specific YouTube channels.
‘Closed-circuit publish’ annotated research papers according to specific styles (MLA, APA, etc.) or other otherwise ‘confusing’ work.
Share presentations.
Create a digital parking lot”‘ for questions.
Administer digital exit slips.
Instead of homework, assign voluntary ‘lesson extensions’ for students. When questions arise about mastery or grades, refer to who accessed and completed what, when.
Create folders of miscellaneous lesson materials. digital versions of texts, etc.
Enjoy smarter conferencing with students and parents with easy-to-access work, data, writing, feedback, access data, and so on.
Save pdfs or other snapshots of digital resources in universally-accessed folders.
Create a data wall but with speadsheets and color-coding.
Make sub work or make-up work easy to access.
Collect data. This can happen in a variety of ways, from using Google Forms, extraction to Google Sheets, or your own in-house method.
Give prompt feedback for learning.
See who’s completed what–and when–at-a-glance.
Track when students turn-in work.
Since access is tracked, look for patterns in student habits–those that access assignments immediately, those that consistently return to work, and so on–and communicate those trends (anonymously) to students as a way of communicating “best practices in learning” for students who may not otherwise think
Differentiate instruction through tiering, grouping, or Bloom’s spiraling.
Create groups based on readiness, interest, reading level, or other factors for teaching and learning.
Use Google Forms to poll students, create reader interest surveys, and more.
Model a works cited page.
Create reference sheets.
Design digital team-building activities.
Create a paperless classroom.
Share universal and frequently-accessed assignments–project guidelines, year-long due dates, math formulas, content-area facts, historical timelines, etc.
IITMED EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: Sign in for the first time
Go to classroom.google.com and click Go to Classroom.
Enter your username and click Next.
Enter your password and click Next.
If there is a welcome message, read it and click Accept.
If you're using a G Suite for Education account, click I'm A Student or I'm A Teacher. ...
Click Get Started.
[13/6, 21:43] IITMED EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: To use Classroom, you sign in on your computer or mobile device and join classes. After you join a class, you can get work from your teacher and communicate with your classmates.
You can join a class in 2 ways:
Enter a class code—Your teacher shares a class code with you. You sign in to Classroom and enter the code.
Accept an invite—Your teacher sends you an invite. You can accept the invite in your email or in Classroom.
After you join a class on one device, you're enrolled in that class for all devices.
Be sure to sign in to Classroom with the correct account. For instructions, go to How do I sign in to Classroom?
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