It’s a bummer...

Some things that Google Classroom doesn’t do.

Alice Keeler shares some of her frustrations with Google Classroom in this blog post here.

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Slow internet suggestions

Here are some common sense suggestions from Matt Miller to help students with slower internet.

Changing your Google Classroom photo

Tired of looking at your initial?  Follow Alice Keeler’s directions here to change your image!

Helping your kids find their work

Google Classroom has some great tools to help students manage their work.  Please see this post from Alice Keeler.

Using PearDeck

Alice Keeler shares a guest blog post on PearDeck here.

Google Rubrics and Originality Reports

While I will be doing drop-ins (grades 4-12) on both Google Rubrics and Originality reports, I thought these videos were useful.  Rubrics have no limits yet Originality Reports can only be used three times in a Google Classroom. These videos will walk you through the process.

Wakelet

For the past few months, I’ve been exploring Wakelet - it is a curation tool that allows you to collect links, tweets, all sorts of things!  Please see this review in TeachersFirst this week.

Helping Students Become Better Writers

Google has rolled out its new Originality report.  It is designed to find instances

where the student's writing matches online sources. Students can then edit their

work (either providing the correct situation and re-working their text for a better

paraphrase) prior to submission.  The short EDU video covers the highlights.

Originality reports are activated when a teacher creates an assignment. 
Please note you can only have 3 assignments (per class) use this feature. 
For additional details, please see the Google information here.

I tried it with a test document and it did highlight a few sentences
(on the right side of the screen you can see the websites).  It does allow the
student to edit prior to submission.

Currently, it will not check documents against other students' work.

When things calm down

Maybe not today, but at some point, you might want to take a look at using Twitter.  Alice Keeler has some great suggestions here.