HOW TO CREATE A CLASS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Google Classroom enables us as teachers to create an online classroom area in which we can manage all the documents that our students need. We can make assignments from within the class, which our students complete and turn in to be graded.

To create the google classroom you need to follow these steps:
1. Open a Web browser and go to classroom.google.com. You have to sign in with your Google Apps for Education account.

2   2. On the Welcome screen, click the plus sign at the top and choose Create Class.

3   3.  In the Create a Class dialogue box, type in the Class Name and Section.

4   4. Click Create.

Your new classroom is created. You can see that the classroom has three main tabs. Here’s what those tabs mean:

• Stream: This is where we manage our class assignments and make announcements to the class. We can add new assignments, with due dates and attached materials. Upcoming assignments are shown at the left. Also, just with social media services, we can send message to our entire class — even with an attachment.
• Students: This is where we manage our students. We can invite students to our classroom from here and manage their permissions level. To invite students to our class, we have to set them up as Google Contacts in your Google Apps for Education account or they have to be in the school’s directory.
• About: This is where we can add the course title and description, add a location for the class, and add materials to your class’s Google Drive folder.

TIP: You can take a tour of all of the features to find out how to use Google Classroom. Just click the Start Tour button on the Stream tab.

REMEMBER: After you create at least one class, you no longer see the Welcome screen when you log in. Instead, you see the Home screen. This screen shows all of your classes arranged in tiles. Just click on a class name to access it. Here are a few other features of the Home screen:

• Add a new class: Just like on the Welcome screen, we can add a new class by clicking the plus sign in the top left next to your username.
• Rename or archive a class: Click the three stacked dots next to the class name to either rename the class or archive it. Archiving a class means that, though we and our students can still access the class, no one can add assignments or make any other changes to the class. The class will move under the Archived section of the Home menu. There is nothing to worry, though; we can restore the archived class at any time by viewing Archived classes, clicking the three stacked dots, and choosing Restore.
• Access Google Drive for the class: Click the file folder icon in the bottom right corner of the class tile. This opens the Google Drive where all our classroom materials are stored.