Studor_Google+Classroom


 * Welcome to Breanne Studor's Technology Presentation! ** [[image:apps.png]][[image:classroom.jpeg width="321" height="156"]]

**Presentation Topic:** This presentation will be focused on Google Apps for Education. Specifically, how to get started using Google Classroom, how to utilize Google Docs and Google Forms with students, and how to use the app Checkmark to provide feedback to students.

**Google Classroom:** Google Classroom is a free service for educators or anyone with a Google Account. Teachers can easily set up multiple classrooms for their students by simply signing into their Google account, clicking on Google Classroom and creating a class. Students are able to sign in using the classroom code provided by their teacher. Google Classroom is a web-service that allows teacher to share assignments, provide resources and feedback with students and parents, and constantly communicate with students. In the Google Classroom Tutorial below, you will learn how to set up a class, add students to it, and how to post assignments/announcements/and questions.

**Google Docs and Google Forms:** Google doc is a free online word processor. While some might think this is similar to Word or other document applications, Google Forms has many benefits for education. First, students do not need to purchase a software program in order to open, create, and edit documents since Google Docs is free. Second, Google Docs makes it simple to share and collaborate. Teachers can view all the Google Docs they share as assignments with students. Teachers can also see all of the revision students have made and how long students spent working on the Doc. Lastly, there is no need to save a Google Doc because it saves automatically. Google Forms is a free application to collect and organize information. Particularly in education it is a way application to create surveys or assessments. When a teacher creates an assessment in Google Forms, it automatically collects responses via email addresses. It will also grade work automatically and create charts to show data based on the responses.

**Checkmark:** Checkmark is an application that works within Google Docs. Checkmark is an application that can be downloaded from from Google Chrome. Once it is downloaded, it can be opened in Google Docs in order to provide grammar and content feedback to students work. Checkmark gives the teacher the options of providing frequently used comments for feedback about the following grammar mistakes: capitalization, punctuation, fragments, run-on sentences, spelling, spacing, subject/verb agreement, comma splice, clarify, repetitive, evidence needed, rephrase, and check citation.

Google Classroom Tutorial: How to set up Google Classroom, add students, and post assignments/questions/announcements.
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Google Forms, Google Docs, and Checkmark
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**Add the Checkmark app here:**
 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checkmark/kfddponboekcbjlhhjinkefjollhhidp?hl=en 