Google classroom gives you the ability
to create and assign work for your
students all without having to print
anything questions essays worksheets and
readings can all be distributed online
and made easily available to your class
whenever you want to create new
assignments questions or materials
you'll need to navigate to the class
work tab in this tab you can create
assignments and view all current and
past assignments to create an assignment
click the Create button from the drop
down menu you have the option to select
assignment but you can also select
question if you'd like to pose a single
question to your students or material if
you simply want to post a reading visual
or other supplementary material in this
example we want to create an assignment
this will bring up the assignment form
Google classroom offers considerable
flexibility and options when creating
assignments within the assignment form
you can decide to send assignments to
all students or a select number just
click the drop-down arrow here and make
your selection next enter the assignment
title
if you'd like to include instructions
you can type them here here you can
decide how many points an assignment is
worth by typing the number in the forum
you can also click the drop down arrow
to select ungraded if you don't want to
grade an assignment and you can also
select a due date for the assignment
in Google classroom you can sort your
assignments and materials into topics
this menu allows you to select an
existing topic or create a new one to
place an assignment under
you can attach files from your computer
files from Google Drive URLs and YouTube
videos to your assignments once you're
happy with the assignment you've created
click assign the drop down menu also
gives you the option to schedule an
assignment if you'd like to post it at a
later date once you've completed the
form and clicked a sign your students
will receive an email notification
letting them know about the assignment
Google classroom takes all of your
assignments and automatically adds them
to your Google Calendar from the
classwork tab you can click the calendar
icon to pull this up and get a better
overall view of the timeline for your
assignments due dates when creating an
assignment there may often be times when
you want to attach a document from
Google Docs these can be helpful when
providing lengthy instructions study
guides and other materials when
attaching these types of files you'll
want to make sure to choose the correct
setting for how your students can
interact with it after attaching one to
an assignment you'll find a drop-down
menu with three options let's take a
look at when you might want to use each
of these students can view file use this
option if the file is simply something
you want your students to view but not
make any changes to
students can edit file this option can
be helpful if you're providing a
document you want your students to
collaborate on or fill out collectively
make a copy for each student if you are
creating a worksheet or document that
you want each student to complete
individually this option will create a
separate copy of the same document for
every student on the class work tab you
can use topics to sort your group
assignments and material to create a
topic click the create button then
select topic
topics can be helpful for organizing
your content into the various units you
teach throughout the year you could also
use it to separate your content by type
splitting it into homework classwork
readings and other topic areas now you
know how to create assignments and
materials in Google classroom
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