The easy tool educators are using every day

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Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. This handy tool has opened up the doors of blended learning and collaborative classrooms like never before. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google.

But there are so many sites! I’ve spent several weeks combing through resources and have picked some of my favorites. What are yours?

I’ll keep updating this page as I add resources. Please share your lessons, resources, and tips at the bottom of this post in the comments. I only want this to include high quality up-to-date information, so if you think anything needs to be added or changed, leave a comment.

Updated: February 5, 2016

Google Classroom Resources

Tip: Use the #gafe hashtag for Google Certified innovators and educators (like me).

Blog Posts

TIP: The Google for Education Blog has the breaking announcements and information on Google Classroom. Just use the GAFE tag on their blog and see all the latest Google Classroom news.

All blog posts tagged GAFE on the Google for Education Blog
All of Alice Keeler’s Google Classroom Blog Posts – She’s really one of the experts.
Print out and Share this Image by Sean Jenkins as you promote awareness with your teachers about all they can do.
20 Collaborative Google Apps Activities for Schools by Matt Miller
How to Manage a Classroom in Google

Interviews with Experts

10 Things Google Classroom Makes Easier – an Interview with Alice Keeler
Cheaters: Google Apps Edition – Eric Curts walks through plaigarism prevention techniques
12 Great Ways to Use Google Drive in Education with Susan Oxnevad

Tools to Help You Work with Google Classroom

Websites

The Google Classroom Help Center has everything you need for getting started. They have tons of resources and how-to’s.

A Google Classroom Symbaloo – Share this one with teachers who are getting started. They can make it their startup screen and test one thing a day.
Google Apps/ GAFE Tutorials for Teachers – a massive site full of tutorials. Use and email these out as you have specific tasks for teachers to learn. For beginners
The Google Gooru – The Gooru has a daily email with Google apps tips and lots of ideas for using Google. They also have tutorials and webinars. The lead GAFE administrators should definitely use this resource.
Sue Gorman’s Getting Googley Resource

Assessment

Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms
Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments
Doctopus helps with management – while it does some things Google Classroom does, there are other features it manages too.
There’s also a Goobric web app launcher for Chrome.
Use this Graphic for Students Turning in Work
10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad
Google Classroom: Using the Rubric Tab to Assess Students
Alice Keeler’s Google Classroom Feedback Workflow

Math

Google Classroom and GeoGebra
60 Ways Math Teachers Can Use Google Classroom by Alice Keeler
gMath for Forms – add math symbols to Google Forms
5 Ways Students Can Use Google Docs in Math
gMath for Sheets – Lets you add formulas to Google Sheets
Mathematical Equations – Up to Date Information from Google on using equations
Google Classroom Part I – How 7th grade math teacher Sherrie Nackel organizes her files and assignments

Literature and Composition

Research

Apps

Google Classroom Add-on for Chrome For beginners
Classroom Mobile App for Android and iOS
Edusync app for Google Calendars
Google Chrome Desktop Plugin lets you access another person’s Chromebook or Chrome browser from your teacher computer (or vice versa)
Share to Classroom lets you push web pages to your student browsers instantly. Helps get everyone on the same page quickly

Books

50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller For beginners
Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis

Google Classroom Research and White Papers

Brown, M. E., & Hocutt, D. L. (2015). Learning to use, useful for learning: a usability study of Google apps for education. Journal of Usability Studies,10(4), 160-181.

Dotson, K. B., & Clark, C. (2015). Together we can… Knowledge Quest,44(2), 8.

Izenstark, A., & Leahy, K. L. (2015). Google Classroom for Librarians: Features and Opportunities. Library Hi Tech News, 32(9), 1-3.

Johnson, C. H., Linahan, M., Cuba, A. F., Dickmann, S. R., Hogan, E. B., Karos, D. N., … & Ropinski, B. L. (2016, January). Google Classroom and Open Clusters: An Authentic Science Research Project for High School Students. In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 227).

Kelly, L. B. (2015). ” You Can’t Just Write an Essay in an Hour”: Supporting Middle Schoolers’ Peer Feedback and Revision Process through Online Writing Groups. Voices From the Middle, 23(2), 81.

Phiri, L., Meinel, C., & Suleman, H. (2016). Streamlined Orchestration: An Orchestration Workbench Framework for Effective Teaching. Computers & Education.

Build Your Google Classroom PLN

Google Classroom Hashtags

#gafechat is the first and third Tuesday of each month 8-9 pm CST
#gafesummit – This is run by Edtechteam.com but many people share resources to this hashtag

Google Classroom Pinterest Boards

Resources on Pinterest relating to Google Classroom https://www.pinterest.com/explore/google-classroom/
Shake Up Learning has 155 guides and tutorials on Google Classroom: https://www.pinterest.com/ShakeUpLearning/google-classroom/
Dianne Miller’s Pinterest Board https://www.pinterest.com/1dimiller/google-classroom/
Resources on Pinterest about Google Docs https://www.pinterest.com/explore/google-docs/
Nadine Trinchero has 160+ resources on her Pinterest Board https://www.pinterest.com/ntrinchero/google-docs-in-the-classroom/
Shake Up Learning has another board with lots of resources: https://www.pinterest.com/ShakeUpLearning/all-things-google/

Accounts Who Share About Google Classroom on Twitter

This is hard because there are so many who tweet about #gafe, but here a few.

@GoogleforEdu – The official handle for everything Google in education
@GAFEAcademy – the Google Apps for Education Academy
@EdTechTeam – They do a lot of training classes for Google Apps
@thegooglegooru – Has lots of tips for using Google
@alicekeeler – She’s an expert.

Graphics

Download the Gooru’s Classroom Cards – you could print and share these at a staff meeting For beginners

Videos

80+ Google Classroom Tutorials from Richard Byrne

For beginners – a great playlist. Just click on the list and pick the video you need. Richard Byrne is someone I highly recommend!

2015 – New Google Classroom Features

Matt Miller created a fantastic overview of Google Classroom Features in late 2015, but also demonstrates the use of hotlinks in videos. This excellent tutorial is one that lets you just see what you want about recently added Google Classroom Features. Just click the link that interests you and it will take you to the video. (You do have to click play first.)

###Google Classroom Tutorial 2015

Convert an Image to an Editable Doc

Google Docs in the Math Classroom by Daniel Kaufman

What is missing?

Please leave your suggestions in the comments.

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