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Easily distribute, analyze, and grade student work with assignments for your lms.

Assignments is an application for your learning management system (LMS). It helps educators save time grading and guides students to turn in their best work with originality reports — all through the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education.

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Distribute personalized copies of Google Drive templates and worksheets to students

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Compare student work against hundreds of billions of web pages and over 40 million books with originality reports

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“Assignments enable faculty to save time on the mundane parts of grading and...spend more time on providing more personalized and relevant feedback to students.” Benjamin Hommerding , Technology Innovationist, St. Norbert College

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Google Assignments

Do you need a better way to manage and grade student assignment submissions, google assignments provides a variety of features that can make assignment completion and grading better for instructors and students..

Google Assignments is an easy-to-use, free tool that allows instructors to use Google Docs and Google Drive to create and collect assignments, give feedback to students and share course materials. Google Assignments is a learning management software (LMS) application add-on, so instructors can complete all of these tasks through Moodle.

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Why use Google Assignments to create assignments?

• Instructors can upload assignment files and course materials within Google Assignments to distribute to students.
• Through Google Assignments, instructors can set due dates and point values for assignments.
• Instructors can embed Google Assignments within Moodle for better access for students.
• Google Assignments provides an Originality Reports function to allow instructors to analyze the authenticity of students’ assignments and detect plagiarism.
• Students can submit various types of files and work through Google Assignments, including: PDF, Google and Microsoft Word documents; image, video and text files; spreadsheet, slides and sites.

“ I have used Google Forms for various assignments. All responses to a single question can be graded without immediately seeing who submitted the question, which reduces the chances of subjectivity. ”

–  Elaine Bohórquez Teaching Associate Professor Physiology Graduate Program

How can Google Assignments make grading easier?

Google Assignments is designed to give instructors the tools necessary to conveniently grade and return assignments to students while maintaining privacy, provide feedback on assignments to improve student learning and manage grades on individual assignments as well as within Moodle’s grading system.

How does Google Assignments improve the process of grading and providing assignment feedback?

• Instructors can upload grading rubrics to Google Assignments to conveniently grade students’ work according to certain criteria.
• Google Assignments allow instructors to annotate student assignments through Google’s comment and suggestion features, as well as by digitally drawing on assignments to give students feedback on their work.
• Google Assignments syncs with Moodle’s Gradebook, so instructors do not have to manually enter grades into Moodle.

“ Settings allow for students to receive an email with their responses automatically, and submissions are time-stamped, which helps ensure that deadlines are met. Individual feedback is easily provided, and grades are released to all students with a single click. It’s a very efficient process. ”

– Elaine Bohórquez Teaching Associate Professor Physiology Graduate Program

How does file management work within Google Assignments?

• When students submit work on Google Assignments, they give full document editing access to the instructor, and the student receives a carbon copy of the original file.
• After submitting work on Google Assignments, students have “View Only” access to the original assignment file, so instructors can maintain privacy from students while grading and leaving comments on assignments.
• When instructors return the graded assignment to the student, Google Assignments saves a carbon copy of the graded assignment to the instructor’s Google Drive and the original file is given back to the student.
• Through automatic saving and file management, Google Assignments limits the amount of manual file saving and transfer between students and instructors.

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• Explore an Instructor’s Guide to Using Google Assignments for Moodle to start adding Google Assignments to your Moodle courses.

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• Take a self-paced, asynchronous DELTA workshop course .
• Watch a Google Assignments video tutorial .

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Getting Started with Google Assignments

Google Assignments is an add-on application for learning management systems (LMS) that helps you distribute, analyze, and grade student work with G Suite for Education.

Assignments makes Google Docs and Google Drive compatible with Canvas for file submissions. You can use Assignments to save time distributing and grading student work, and you can use the originality reports feature to analyze student submissions for authenticity.

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• Assign and collect virtually any file type, including Google Docs and Microsoft® Word files.
• Each distributed copy will be labeled with a student’s name and organized in a Drive folder.
• Assess student work for originality without leaving your grading tool.
• Searches hundreds of billions of web pages and 40 million books.
• Help students learn to support their ideas by letting them scan their work for missed citations up to three times before submitting.
• Prevent students from editing their work while you grade.
• Grade with rubrics to keep grading consistent and transparent.
• Give rich feedback and suggestions on student work using the power of Google Docs, including margin comments, strikethroughs, and highlighting.
• Easily reuse frequent margin comments with a personalized comment bank.
• Grades save to the LMS gradebook.

You can attach files to an assignment so each student receives an individual copy to edit and turn in. Example attachments include Google Docs or Microsoft® Word® files for paper prompts, PDFs for worksheets, Google Sheets for data analysis, Google Slides for presentations, and more.

To attach files to an assignment, click the “Attach” button and select files while creating the assignment.

Learn more about attaching template files to an assignment .

Originality Reports

You and your students can use originality reports to check work for authenticity. When you run an originality report, it compares a student’s Google Docs file against web pages and books on the internet and against other students’ documents submitted using Google Assignments through Canvas@UD. The report links to detected sources and flags uncited text. Originality reports are only available for G Suite for Education accounts set to English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Originality reports search all pages accessible by Google Search and Google Books. However, Google Scholar isn’t included in an originality search. Originality reports also search scholarly journals that are available on Google Search. Google Assignments will also check against other student documents submitted using Google Assignments through Canvas@UD. Google Assignments don’t store student work in a repository to check against external institutions. No other instructor can see your students’ assignments. Furthermore, originality reports run by the student don’t compare against other student submissions in the institution.

The report flags passages that are similar to text found on a webpage that the student didn’t cite or quote. The flagged passage shows the text from the external source and a link to the webpage. Originality reports don’t evaluate citation formatting or verify the source of the text. The instructor must determine whether content was correctly cited. Originality reports can determine if a student used tricky text. It will notify you if multiple scripts are present in an assignment when 6 or more non-text characters are found.

Learn more about originality reports and privacy .

Learn more about activating, creating or viewing originality reports .

• When you turn on originality reports for an assignment, students can run 3 reports on that assignment before submitting their work. 
• You can’t see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to improve their work before submitting the assignment. 
• You can view originality reports for 45 days . After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.
• When students turn in their work, Assignments automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs file, visible only to you . 
• If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Assignments runs another originality report for the instructor. 
• If a student uploads a Microsoft Word file, Assignments automatically converts it to a Google Docs file, runs the originality report, and includes the original Word file in the submission. 
• If you added a Word file as a template in the assignment, Assignments won’t convert the file or run a report when the student submits their work.

Grading assignments

Once a student submits their assignment, their permissions change to View , and the instructor owns the file. The file stays in the student’s Drive, but can’t be edited until returned by the instructor or unsubmitted by the student.

A student can unsubmit and resubmit work before a due date. For example, if a student realizes they submitted the wrong file, they can unsubmit it, and then upload the correct one. Students can’t unsubmit their work after a due date. For student privacy, unsubmitted assignments appear as NOT turned in to the instructor.

Students can attach any file type to their assignment, including, Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, Microsoft®️ Word®️, Excel®️, or PowerPoint®️, PDF, Image files, Text files and Video files.

Note: Assignments automatically converts Microsoft Office®️ files to a Google format, then saves a copy of the files to your Google Drive in the Assignments folder.

In Assignments, you can create, reuse, view, grade, and share rubrics for individual assignments. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If you use scored rubrics, students see their score when you return their work. You can create up to 50 criteria per rubric and up to 10 performance levels per criterion.

Note: The rubrics associated with Google Assignment are different from the rubrics in Canvas.

Learn how to create or reuse a rubric for an assignment .

Does Assignments work on mobile devices? Assignments is available only in web browsers, and works best on browsers running on computers and tablets.

Does Assignments support peer review of assignments? No , Assignments doesn’t have a feature for peer review. However, you can create a peer review workflow. Here’s how:

• Ask your students to start their assignments in Docs.
• Tell students to share their files with their peer reviewer.
• In Docs, peer reviewers leave margin comments and suggestions.
• Have students turn in their assignments, leaving in the reviewer’s comments and suggestions. Alternatively, students can review, implement, and resolve reviewer comments and instructors can view version history.
• Grade the assignments.
• (Optional) Record a separate grade for peer reviews.

Does Assignments support group assignments? No, Assignments doesn’t have settings for group assignments. However, you can create a group project workflow. Follow these steps:

• Tell each group to create a Google Doc and share it with group members for editing. 
• Have the owner of the file submit the assignment for grading.
• Grade the assignment, leaving overall feedback as a margin comment or suggestion. Note: The overall feedback field is visible only to the owner of the file and not to the group.
• In your gradebook, record the grade for the other group members.

Will Assignments work in a course copied to a new Canvas site? Yes, assignments set up in Google Assignments work in a course copied to Canvas. When you copy a course, the following is copied over: 

• Total points
• Settings for originality reports
• Attachments

How do you see all of your linked courses and assignments? Go to https://assignments.google.com/u/1/assignments/ca to view all your linked courses and assignments. Instructors who own courses can delete the courses and assignments. Students can leave a course to unlink their Google Account from that course.

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8 Google Classroom tips every teacher should know

Apr 17, 2024

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Google Classroom offers a suite of tools for teachers to tailor lessons, engage students, monitor progress, and provide support.

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Google Classroom offers a range of features to enhance teaching and learning. Teachers can tailor lessons, encourage feedback with rubrics, and gain insights into student progress using analytics. Practice sets provide real-time feedback and support, while interactive questions for YouTube videos enhance learning. Importing and sharing resources saves time, and flexible assignment options cater to diverse needs. Screencast allows teachers to record lessons with embedded videos and automatic transcripts. These tips empower educators to create personalized and engaging learning experiences for their students.

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• Tailor lessons: Create assignments for specific students or groups.
• Encourage feedback: Use rubrics to set expectations and grade assignments.
• Get early insights: Use analytics to monitor student progress and identify areas for improvement.
• Offer support: Use practice sets to provide students with additional support and resources.
• Help students learn at their own pace: Use interactive questions for YouTube videos to engage students and track their progress.
• Import and share: Share practice sets, video activities, and classes with other teachers.
• Add flexibility: Give students more time to submit assignments or mark assignments as excused.
• Record your screen: Use Screencast to create video lessons and provide students with a personalized learning experience.
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In Google's realm, a Classroom doth reside, Where teachers thrive, with knowledge as their guide. Eight tips revealed, to aid their noble quest, To teach and guide, with passion and zest.

Tailor lessons, to each student's need, With rubrics clear, their progress shall proceed. Analytics deep, insights they shall bestow, To intervene and help their students grow.

Practice sets, with AI's guiding hand, Support they offer, where students stand. YouTube's videos, with questions interspersed, Engage young minds, their learning is immersed.

Import and share, resources rich and vast, Collaboration blooms, the future unsurpassed. Flexibility in grading, a teacher's grace, Screencast's recordings, a diverse embrace.

With these tips in hand, teachers shall soar, In Google's Classroom, learning evermore.

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Get the most out of Google Classroom with these top tips and tricks to help teachers and students adapt to new ways of learning — and succeeding — in the classroom.

1. Tailor your lessons for your students

In most classrooms, students have different preferences, levels and abilities when it comes to learning. While an article might work for some, a video could be better for others. Meeting students where they are is essential to helping them learn, but isn’t always easy to scale.

Classroom can help get the right lesson to the right student. Under the “Classwork” tab, click “Create” to create an assignment for your students. Select which students in the class will receive it by unselecting “All students” and choosing the specific students for that lesson. From there, create as many assignments as you need for groups or individuals. In the next few months, we will be making this even easier by enabling educators to create groups of students to organize their class and deliver personalized instruction. Educators can create or update student groups right from the assignment creator so they no longer need to manually find each individual student (available with the Google Workspace for Education Plus edition or Teaching & Learning Upgrade).

2. Encourage a feedback loop with rubrics

When creating an assignment, you can make, reuse or import a rubric so students can understand expectations and their grades. This information makes it easier to have a conversation with students based on their assignments. You can even share rubrics with other educators to save time or weigh certain criteria differently. Simply choose the “Create rubric” option when creating your next assignment. Students will see the rubric before turning in their work, and you’ll be able to grade against the rubric when returning it to them.

3. Get early insights into student learning

With Classroom analytics , you can get a birds-eye view of how your class and students are doing. You can see how students are performing in terms of grades, assignment completion rates, how many missing assignments they have, or how often they’re accessing Classroom on their own. As we add more analytics capabilities to this page, you’ll get more insights about how to support all your students, when you might need to intervene, and how you can differentiate your instruction. To view analytics for your class, click the “Analytics” icon on a class card on the homepage or in the header bar in a class. Available with the Google Workspace for Education Plus edition or Teaching & Learning Upgrade.

4. Use practice sets to offer support where students need it, at scale

Practice sets help teachers provide students with a way to engage more deeply with a subject when they need a little extra support. Unlike the experience of a static worksheet or PDF, students can see in real time whether they got an answer correct. Teachers can also provide a bank of resources specific to each problem for when students get stuck, like a text hint (“Remember to isolate the variable”) or a YouTube video that reviews the underlying concepts to the problem. Students can show their work using the keyboard or stylus, with teachers receiving snapshots of that work each time a student attempts a problem.

It’s easy to get started with practice sets. First, import an existing Google Form or PDF to instantly transform it into an interactive practice set, or start fresh by creating your first problem. Add a problem question (multiple choice, or short answer, or something else) and tag each problem with a learning skill. AI will suggest learning skills and additional resources as you build your practice sets. An insights dashboard shows how students performed on every practice set assignment, with helpful details and insights like how many tries it took for each student to arrive at the correct answer, or how many students struggled with a particular question. Available with the Google Workspace for Education Plus edition or Teaching & Learning Upgrade.

5. Help students learn at their own pace with interactive questions for YouTube videos

YouTube is a common learning tool in Classroom today and with interactive questions for YouTube videos , it’s never been easier to use. Add questions at any timestamp and the video will pause and prompt students to answer. They’ll receive real-time feedback and can go back and rewatch segments to help them arrive at the right solutions. Like with practice sets, you’ll get an insights dashboard with details about how students engaged with the video. Soon, educators will be able to test out AI-suggested questions, making interactive videos a snap. Available with the Google Workspace for Education Plus edition or Teaching & Learning Upgrade

6. Don’t start from scratch — import and share

Want to share practice sets, video activities and classes with a fellow teacher or use something you loved from a previous year? No problem. Enable link sharing for your practice set, video activity or an entire classwork page to share directly with other teachers in your organization. From there, they can import classwork or make a copy of your practice sets or video activities to use for their students. Available with the Google Workspace for Education Plus edition or Teaching & Learning Upgrade.

7. Add flexibility to your assignments and grading

Give students one last shot to get in any missing assignments, or disable submissions after the due date. On your dashboard, go into “Assignments” and uncheck “Close submissions after the due date.” You can always go in and add a final due date to close out the assignment for good when you’re ready.

There might be times when you want to have more control over what counts toward a student’s final grade. By marking an assignment as “excused,” you can prevent it from counting toward the average in times when you don’t want it to. Under the “Grades” tab, click the three dots and select “Excused.”

8. Record your screen with Screencast to meet your class’s diverse needs

If you’re using Classroom on a Chromebook, take advantage of the Screencast app. Screencast allows you to record your screen with your own video embedded, so your students can see you and your screen. Screencast provides an automatic transcript and AI-enabled editing tools. Don’t love how a specific 14 seconds came out? Simply trim it away by deleting the transcript text.

Once you have that video lesson recorded there are endless possibilities to provide students with an effective and personalized experience. For example, upload your recording as an unlisted YouTube video and assign it as an interactive questions video in Classroom. Pause after key moments of the lesson to prompt your students with questions and get insights about their performance and engagement, all while helping them learn at their own pace.

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Google Classroom  - Creating Assignments and Materials

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Google Classroom: Creating Assignments and Materials

Lesson 2: creating assignments and materials.

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Creating assignments and materials

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. If you haven't created a class already, check out our Getting Started with Google Classroom lesson.

Watch the video below to learn more about creating assignments and materials in Google Classroom.

Creating an assignment

Whenever you want to create new assignments, questions, or material, you'll need to navigate to the Classwork tab.

In this tab, you can create assignments and view all current and past assignments. To create an assignment, click the Create button, then select Assignment . 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.

This will bring up the Assignment form. Google Classroom offers considerable flexibility and options when creating assignments.

Click the buttons in the interactive below to become familiar with the Assignment form.

This is where you'll type the title of the assignment you're creating.

Instructions

If you'd like to include instructions with your assignment, you can type them here.

Here, you can decide how many points an assignment is worth by typing the number in the form. You can also click the drop-down arrow to select Ungraded if you don't want to grade an assignment.

You can select a due date for an assignment by clicking this arrow and selecting a date from the calendar that appears. Students will have until then to submit their work.

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.

Attachments

You can attach files from your computer , files from Google Drive , URLs , and YouTube videos to your assignments.

Google Classroom gives you the option of sending assignments to all students or a select number .

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 it to post it at a later date.

You can attach a rubric to help students know your expectations for the assignment and to give them feedback.

Once you've completed the form and clicked Assign , 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 Google Calendar to pull this up and get a better overall view of the timeline for your assignments' due dates.

Using Google Docs with assignments

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 material.

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're 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.

Using topics

On the Classwork tab, you can use  topics to sort and group your 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.

In our next lesson , we'll explore how to create quizzes and worksheets with Google Forms, further expanding how you can use Google Classroom with your students.

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What is Google Classroom?

Google Classroom can make teaching and learning easier for students and teachers and here's how

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This article was updated in February 2024

The mighty Google Classroom has grown from strength to feature-filled strength since it launched a decade ago. It has helped to make the digital classroom a reality in schools worldwide and is now easier to use than ever.

The system is also filled with more resources than ever too, with plenty of free-to-use tools to help with teaching both in the class and beyond. Crucially, it helps students work on their devices wherever they are. But it also offers teachers a consistent spot to work from, both in assigning work as well as assessing that which is submitted digitally. 

While this isn't a full LMS (Learning Management System) such as Blackboard, it does offer a lot of integration for teachers. Third-party apps are now integrated, plus there are lots of roster-based assignment offerings, and even AI is being used to enhance and streamline the experience. 

Read on to find out everything you need to know about Google Classroom.

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Google Classroom is a suite of online tools that allows teachers to set assignments, have work submitted by students, to mark, and to return graded papers. It was created as a way to get eliminate paper in classes and to make digital learning possible. It was initially planned for use with laptops in schools, such as Chromebooks, in order to allow the teacher and students to more efficiently share information and assignments.

As more schools have transitioned to online learning, Google Classroom has gotten far wider use as teachers quickly implement paperless instruction. Classrooms works with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Earth, Calendar, and Gmail, and can be supplemented by Google Hangouts or Meet for face-to-face live teaching or questions.

What's new in Google Classroom?

Google has announced a slew of updates recently but one of the most significant has to be the greater inclusion of artificial intelligence. This comes with Google's Duet AI being used in certain tools, but also the AI being applied across the Classroom system.

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AI advances mean teachers can now create more intuitively in Docs, generate images in Slides, build projects in Sheets and more -- all taking far less time as the AI does a lot of the legwork now.

Google has a host of apps that now work with Classroom, with many listed here , including Schoolytics, Screencastify, and Today.

What devices does Google Classroom work with?

Since Google Classroom is online-based, you can access it in some form from pretty much any device with a web browser. Processing is done at Google's end mostly, so even older devices are able to handle most of Google's resources. 

Device-specific apps for the likes of iOS and Android are available, while it also works on Mac, PC, and Chromebooks. A big advantage of Google is that on most devices it is possible to do work offline, uploading when a connection is found.

This all allows teachers and students to use Google Classroom since they can connect with it via any personal device. 

What does Google Classroom cost?

Google Classroom is free to use. All the apps that work with the service are already free-to-use Google tools, and Classroom simply conglomerates it all into a centralized place.

An education institution will need to sign-up for the service in order to add all its students and teachers. This is to make sure security is as tight as possible so no outsiders gain access to the information or students involved.

Google does not scan any of the data, nor does it use that for advertising. Plus, there are no advertisements within Google Classroom or the Google Workspace for Education platform at large. 

In the wider Google ecosystem, where Classroom sits, there are packages that can offer advantages. The Standard Google Workspace for Education package is charged at $4 per student per year, which gets a security center, advanced device and app management, Gmail and Classroom log exports for analysis, and more.

The Teaching and Learning Upgrade package (no connection to us!) is charged at $4 per license per month, which gets you meetings with up to 250 participants as well as live-streaming to up to 10,000 viewers using Google Meet, plus features such as Q&A, polls, and more. You also get Classroom add-on to directly integrate tools and content. Unlimited originality reports are also available to check on plagiarism and more.

Google Classroom assignments

Google Classroom has a lot of options but, more importantly, it can allow teachers to do more to help educate students remotely or in hybrid settings. A teacher is able to set assignments and then upload documents that explain what is required for completion, and also provide extra information and a place for students to actually work.

Since students receive an email notification when an assignment is waiting, it's very easy to maintain a schedule without the teacher having to repeatedly contact the students. Since these assignments can be designated ahead of time, and set to go out when the teacher wants, it makes for advanced lesson planning and more flexible time management.

When a task is finished, the student can turn it in for the teacher to grade. Teachers can then provide annotations and feedback for the student.

Google Classroom also allows for the export of grades into a student information system (SIS) making it far easier to use automatically school-wide.

Google offers an originality report feature that lets teachers run a check against other student submissions from the same school. A great way to avoid plagiarism.

Google Classroom announcements

Teachers can make announcements that go out to the entire class. These can appear on the home screen of the Google Classroom where the students will see it the next time they log in. A message can also be sent out as an email so that everyone will receive it at a certain time. Or it can be sent to individuals who it applies to specifically. 

An announcement can have more rich media added with attachments from the likes of YouTube and Google Drive. 

Any announcement can be set to either remain like a noticeboard statement, or it can be adjusted to allow for two-way communication from students. 

Should I get Google Classroom?

If you're in charge of teaching on any level and are set to make a decision about online teaching tools, then Google Classroom is definitely worth considering. While this isn't a LMS replacement, it is a really great tool for taking the teaching basics online.

Classroom is super easy to learn, simple to use, and works across many devices – all for free. This means no costs for maintenance since there's no need for an IT management team to support this system. It also automatically keeps you updated with Google's advancements and changes to the service. 

Learn everything you need to know by reading our Google Classroom review .

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Along with instruction and assessment, assignments form the foundation of the teaching and learning process. They provide opportunities for students to practice the skills and apply the knowledge that they have been taught in a supportive environment. It also helps the teacher gauge how well students are learning the material and how close they are to mastery.

Because of the nature of assignments, managing them can get hectic. That’s why its best to use a platform like Google Classroom to help you manage assignments digitally. In today’s tip, we will discuss 48 ways that you can use Classroom to manage student assignments.

• Assignment Status – Easily check how many students turned in an assignment as well as how many assignments have been graded by going to the Classwork tab and clicking on the title of the assignment.
• Assign to Multiple Classes – Post an assignment to multiple classes by using the “for” drop-down menu when creating an assignment.
• Brainstorm – Use Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings to brainstorm for class assignments.
• Calendar of Due Dates – Link a Google Calendar with due dates for assignments, tests, and other important dates into Classroom.
• Check Homework – Classroom makes checking homework easy with a quick glance at the assignment page. If more detailed grading is needed, just access the grading interface for the assignment.
• Choice Boards – Give students a choice in how they demonstrate what they know by creating a choice board and uploading it as an assignment. Choice boards allow students to choose between several assignments and can be created directly in Classroom, using Google Docs, or with third-party apps.
• Co-Teach Classes – Invite others to co-teach in your Classroom. Each teacher is able to create assignments and post announcements for students.
• Create Questions Before a Socratic Seminar – Create an assignment for students to develop questions before a Socratic seminar. During the collaborative process, students can eliminate duplicate questions.
• Detention Assignment Sheet – Create a detention assignment sheet using Google Docs. The assignment sheet can then be shared with the detention teacher and individual students privately through Classroom.
• Differentiate Assignments – Assign work to individual students or groups of students in Classroom.
• Differentiate by Product – Differentiate by product in Classroom by providing a challenge, variety, or choice or by using a continuum with assignments.
• Digital Portfolios – Students can create digital portfolios of their work by uploading documents, pictures, artifacts, etc. to Classroom assignments.
• Directions Document – Use Google Docs to create instruction documents for assignments in Classroom.
• Distribute Student Work/Homework – Use Classroom to distribute student assignments or homework to all students, groups of students, or individual students.
• Diversify Student Submissions – Create alternative submission options for students through the assignment tool. For example, one group of students may be required to submit a Google Doc while another group is required to submit a Slides presentation.
• Do-Now Activities – Use Classroom to post Do-Now Activities.
• Draft Assignments – Save posts as drafts until they are ready for publishing.
• Feedback Before Student Submits – Provide feedback to students while their assignment is still a work in progress instead of waiting until submission. This will help the student better understand assignment expectations.
• Get Notified of Late Assignments – Select notification settings to get notified each time an assignment is turned in late.
• Global Classroom – Partner with international teachers to create a co-teaching classroom without borders where students can work on collaborative assignments.
• Graphic Organizers – Upload graphic organizers for students to collaborate on assignments and projects.
• Group Collaboration – Assign multiple students to an assignment to create a collaborative group. Give students editing rights to allow them access to the same document.
• HyperDocs – Create and upload a hyperdoc as an assignment.
• Link to Assignments – Create links to assignments not created in Classroom.
• Link to Class Blog – Provide the link to a class blog in Classroom.
• Link to Next Activity – Provide a link to the next activity students must complete after finishing an assignment.
• Make a Copy for Each Student – Chose “make a copy for each student” when uploading assignment documents to avoid students having to share one copy of the document. When a copy for each student is made, Classroom automatically adds each student’s name to the document and saves it to the Classroom folder in Google Drive.
• Move to Top/Bottom – Move recent assignments to the top of the Classwork feed so students can find new tasks more quickly.
• Multiple File Upload – Upload multiple files for an assignment in one post.
• Naming Conventions for Assignments – Create a unique naming system for assignments so they can be easily found in the Classroom folder in Google Drive.
• Offline Mode – Change settings to allow students to work in offline mode if internet connections are weak. Once an internet connection is established, students can upload assignments to Classroom.
• One Student One Sheet – In Google Sheets, assign one tab (sheet) per student for the student to complete the assignment.
• One Student One Slide – In Google Slides, assign one slide to each student to present findings on a topic or to complete an assignment.
• Organize Student Work – Google Classroom automatically creates calendars and folders in Drive to keep assignments organized.
• Peer Tutors – Assign peer tutors to help struggling students with assignments.
• Protect Privacy – Google Classroom only allows class members to access assignments. Also, it eliminates the need to use email, which may be less private than Classroom.
• Provide Accommodations – Provide accommodations to students with disabilities in Google Classroom by allowing extra time to turn in assignments, using text to speech functions, and third-party extensions for colored overlays.
• Reorder Assignments by Status – Instead of organizing assignments by student first or last name, organize them by status to see which students have or have not turned in work.
• Reuse Posts – Reuse post from prior assignments or from other Classrooms.
• See the Process – Students don’t have to submit their assignments for you to see their work. When you chose “make a copy for each student” for assignments, each student’s work can be seen in the grading tool, even if it’s not submitted. Teachers can make comments and suggestions along the way.
• Share Materials – Upload required materials such as the class syllabus, rules, procedures, etc. to a Class Resources Module, or upload assignment materials within the assignment.
• Share Resources – Create a resource list or a resource module for students.
• Share Solutions to an Assignment – Share solutions to an assignment with a collaborator or students after all assignments have been turned in.
• Stop Repeating Directions – By posting a directions document to assignments, the need to continually repeat directions is lessened, if not eliminated altogether. Keep in mind that some students will still need directions to read orally or clarified.
• Student Work Collection – Use Classroom to collect student work from assignments.
• Summer Assignments – Create summer assignments for students through Classroom.
• Templates – Create templates for projects, essays, and other student assignments.
• Track Assignments Turned In – Keep track of which students turned in assignments by going to the grading tool.

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Google Tasks can easily be overlooked in Google’s long list of apps and services. But this straightforward to-do-list manager is hugely useful, available across all of your devices, and improving all the time (including a recent redesign).

We’ve previously looked at how well Google Tasks integrates with Gmail , and here we’re going to take you through the features and tools at your fingertips with Google Tasks for Android and iOS . Get the app installed on your phone (if it isn’t already), sign in with your Google account, and you’re ready to go.

Getting started with Google Tasks

If you’ve never used Google Tasks before, you can get started with your very first task by tapping on the + (plus) button down at the bottom of the My Tasks tab:

• Give your task a name (like “buy some milk”).
• Tap the three line icon to add extra details (such as the best place to get your milk).
• Tap the clock icon to link a time and date to the task.
• Select the star icon to make this one of your starred tasks.
• Tap Save to create the task.

The task is created and added to your My Tasks list. If you want to make changes to it, tap on the task text—you can get to the same options again, if you need to add (or remove) details, or add (or remove) a time and date.

From the same screen you can add subtasks, which are exactly what they sound like: Smaller tasks within the main tasks that can be checked off one by one. To delete a task or subtask, tap the three dots (top right), then choose Delete .

When you’ve done something, just tap on the circular checkbox next to it, and it’s marked as completed. The task then moves to the Completed list, which you can expand with a tap if you want to remind yourself of the progress you’ve made. To delete all the tasks that are done with, tap the three dots at the bottom, then pick Delete all completed tasks .

Tap and drag tasks around to change their order in the list—or to change them from tasks into subtasks or vice versa. You can get at a few more options by tapping the icon showing two arrows (Android) or the three dots (iOS) at the bottom.

• Choose My order to set the order of tasks manually.
• Select Date to see the tasks grouped by date, with the dates closest to today at the top.
• Choose Starred recently to see tasks that have recently been starred at the top of the list.

You’ll notice your tasks are synced everywhere you’ve got Google Tasks installed, and can be edited from anywhere too—they’ll appear in the right-hand Google Tasks pane in Gmail on the web, for example.

Creating multiple lists

When you’re comfortable with the basics of Google Tasks, you can move on to creating multiple lists. You might have one list for shopping for example, and another list for DIY. You can use multiple lists in whatever way you like.

To create a new list, tap the icon showing multiple lines in the bottom-left corner, then pick Create new list :

• Give your name a list (such as “research tasks”), then tap Done .
• A new list is created—tap the three dots underneath it to find the Rename list and Delete list options.
• You can change the order of lists, but only on Android: Tap the lists icon (bottom left), then tap and drag on a list to move it.

Lists are shown up at the top of the Google Tasks interface, and you can swipe across to scroll through them. Get to the far right of your lists, and there’s a New list option, which gives you another way to create a new list.

This gives you much more flexibility when it comes to creating your tasks and subtasks. You’ll notice if you tap on a task to view its details, you can then tap on the drop-down menu at the top to change the list it’s in.

Each list has its own separate tasks and completed tasks, though starred tasks across all lists can be found by tapping on the star icon to the left of the lists tabs. You might want to use this to manage important tasks across all your lists.

Each list comes with the same options for ordering the tasks on screen, and again all your lists sync across all of the devices where you’ve got Google Tasks installed, and can be edited from any device.

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The feature is aimed at empowering users who might be financially dependent.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched a new feature called "UPI Circle", aimed at enhancing digital payment accessibility. This new feature allows primary users to add family members and friends as secondary users, enabling them to make transactions using the primary user's bank account, all within pre-set limits. It is designed to extend the convenience of UPI transactions to those who may not have their own bank accounts or are hesitant about using digital payments. As per NPCI, the feature is aimed at empowering secondary users who might be financially dependent to access UPI. 

UPI Circle features

In a press note , NPCI detailed the features of "UPI Circle". As per the agency, primary users can now delegate payment authorisation to secondary users, such as family members or employees, who can then perform transactions directly from the primary user's account. This feature is expected to be particularly beneficial for parents providing allowances to children, senior citizens who are cautious about conducting digital transactions, and business owners who need to manage petty cash for their staff.

The feature does come with layers of intervention and security measures. Once added, primary users will have the option to set spending limits or require approval for each transaction. The "Spend With Limits" option allows secondary users to make payments within defined limits without needing further approval, while the "Approve Every Payment" option offers greater control by requiring the primary user's approval for each transaction. 

NPCI has set the maximum monthly limit at Rs 15,000 where a single transaction cannot exceed Rs 5,000. Also, for the first 24 hours, the secondary user will have a limit of Rs 5,000. 

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According to the agency, the primary user will have the option to monitor the activity of the secondary users on the app. A primary user can set different maximum limits (under Rs 15,000) for different secondary users. 

"About 6% of UPI users make a large number of transactions, mainly because they also make transactions on behalf of others. This feature will allow the primary user to have the same control while offering more convenience while making delegated payments," a statement by the NPCI said. 

How to set up UPI Circle 

• Go to UPI Circle Menu: Tap "Add Family or Friends"
• Enter a secondary UPI ID, scan their UPI QR code, or search your phone contacts to add 
• Set Permissions: Choose between "Spend With Limits" or "Approve Every Payment"
• Secondary user will receive a notification to accept the request
• Once accepted, secondary users can start making payments using the primary user's UPI account

Notably, a primary user can add up to five secondary users, however, a secondary user can only accept a single primary user. The primary user can also revoke access to the secondary user at any given time.

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You turn in your work online in Classroom. Depending on the type of assignment and attachments, you’ll find  Turn in or Mark as Done .

Any assignment turned in or marked done after the due date is recorded as late.

Important: 

• You can only submit an assignment before the due date.
• If you need to edit an assignment you submitted, unsubmit the assignment before the due date, make your changes, and resubmit.
• Attach one or more files to your assignment.
• Upload photos from a camera roll.
• Open and work on files you own in Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings and then attach them to your assignment.

Turn in an Assignment Using Google Classroom (Web)

Go to classroom.google.com  and click Sign In.

Sign in with your Google Account. For example,  [email protected] or [email protected] .  Learn more .

• Select the attachment or enter the URL for a link and click Add .

• Click the file and enter your information.

The status of the assignment changes to Turned in .

Important : If you get an error message when you click Turn in , let your instructor know.

Turn in a quiz

• Click the form and answer the questions.
• Click Submit . If the form is the only work for the assignment, the status of the assignment changes to Turned in .
• If there's more work to do for the assignment, click Open assignment .

Turn in an assignment with an assigned doc

If your teacher attached a document with your name in the title, it’s your personal copy to review and edit. As you work, your teacher can review your progress before you click Turn in . 

• Click the image with your name to open the assigned file.
• Enter your work.
• On the document or in Classroom, click Turn in and confirm.

Important: If you get an error message when you click Turn in , let your instructor know.

Mark an assignment as done

Important: Any assignment turned in or marked done after the due date is recorded as late, even if you previously submitted the work before the due date.

Unsubmit an assignment

Want to make changes to an assignment that you already turned in? Just unsubmit the work, make the changes, and turn it in again.

Important: Any assignment turned in or marked done after the due date is marked late, even if you previously submitted the work before the due date. If you unsubmit an assignment, be sure to resubmit it before the due date.

• Click Unsubmit and confirm. Note : This assignment is now unsubmitted. Turn it in again before the due date.

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