Google Classroom is now available!

What is Google Classroom?

Welcome to the first chapter of the Google Classroom tutorial.  Before we begin, you need to know what Google Classroom is and how would you use it with your class.  Classroom is a new tool  from Google Apps for Education that weaves together Google Docs, Drive and Gmail to help teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and communicate with their classes with ease. It lets students organize their work, complete and turn it in, and communicate directly with their teachers and peers.

For any of you who have used Google Apps for Education with you classes before, you may have realized that organizing assignments was cumbersome...classroom should take care of a lot of those issues. There are many benefits of using Classroom, as it is easy to setup, eases the workflow between students and teachers, enhances communication, and it improves organization.

We are very excited about the ease of workflow Classroom provides, but remember we don't want to fall into using this in the traditional sense of just turning in papers and assignments. This tool should help with workflow, but remember we want students creating with choice, critically thinking, communicating and collaborating.

In the next few blog posts, I will demonstrate how you can setup your Google Classroom account and how you will be able to use it in your classroom.