Day 7 of Google 2018: Google Classroom Grading (or lack of grading)

Screen Shot 2018-12-04 at 8.46.41 PM.pngWe are back to Google Classroom today. Most of the teachers at Bedford High School do not report grades earned through Google Classroom on assignments. Rather, they report these grades right in our student information system, PowerSchool. With the change of Google Classroom over the summer, the back end of Google classroom has thrown a couple of teachers off. More specifically, relating to returning assignments.

There is a clear difference between returning “ungraded” and “graded” assignments if a teacher does not report individual student numerical grades in Google Classroom.

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Day 6 of Google 2018: Google Slide Items

Screen Shot 2018-12-04 at 8.47.31 PM.pngToday we are going to into to different aspects of Google Slides.  

Changing Layout of Slides

Whenever you create a new Google Slide presentation, the presentation is defaulted to a slide layout of widescreen 16:9 ratio. You do not have to keep this layout. In fact, you can customize your size dimensions to basically whatever you want it to be. For example, we know that the following two have these specific examples:

  • Legal size paper – 8.5 inch by 11 inches
  • Instagram stories – 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels

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Day 5 of Google 2018: Google Classroom Commenting/Grading

Screen Shot 2018-12-04 at 8.46.28 PM.pngToday’s topic pertains to Google Classroom and the new grading feature this school year. Now when you open up a file that is shared through Google Classroom, a new grading window shows up. There are some great benefits to this new feature this year.

  • Can add generic comments in a comment bank so that you don’t have to type the same thing over and over when assessing work.
  • Less opening and closing of windows as all student work can be viewed from the drop down menu on the top left corner. You are able to quickly see where students are at from this drop down as well (missing, turn in, assigned).

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Day 4 of Google 2018: 3 YouTube Tips & Shortcuts

Screen Shot 2018-12-04 at 8.47.18 PM.pngToday we will focus on YouTube. Let’s face it. Most of us end up on YouTube at least once a day for whatever reason. Maybe one of these three tips will help make your viewing experience that much better.

 

Number 1: Autoplay

Do you hate it when videos will automatically play after you finished watching a YouTube video? Did you know that you can stop that? On the top right corner, there is a button that you can turn off so that “autoplay” is turned off.

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Day 3 of Google 2018: Checkboxes in Google Sheets

Screen Shot 2018-12-04 at 8.46.14 PMUse spreadsheets from time to time? Google Sheets now allows users to have checkboxes in a column. It might seem like a small feature but in all honesty, it can be a great visual cue to know who has and has not done a particular task.

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