After you create your first class, the Classroom folder will be automatically added to your Google Drive. Each class you create will have its own subfolder as well.
These folders will be where copies of materials, quizzes, and other classroom files are stored.
Switching back over to Classroom, on the Classwork tab at the top of a class, let's take a quick look at Quiz Assignments and how they differ from regular Assignments.
Quiz Assignments auto generate a Blank Quiz, which is the only difference between this and a Normal Assignment.
Quizzes can be added to normal assignments, so Blank Quizzes are not added to your Drive. Blank Quizzes will show up in the folder associated with that class as seen below. This can be avoided by creating the quiz first and attaching it to a normal assignment.
Next, we will take a look at the Question option under Create.
Questions have additional options for making a self contained question on the Stream portion of Classroom. You can ask both Short Answer or Multiple Choice.
If you choose Short Answer, you can choose to have the students respond to each other or not. You can also choose if you want students to be able to edit their own answers.
The last option under the Create menu is Material.
Materials are just that, assignment materials. Materials cannot be graded, circled in the image below is where the grading option would be shown.
How does this all work together? The Classroom Basics session was a solid foundation for everything. This session, Classroom Advanced, builds on the Basics and ties in additional apps. Google Forms Quizzes allows you to create tests/quizzes you can use year after year, change up the answers, and even import individual questions from one test to another. Quizzes can be auto graded and the grades applied to Classroom, then synced to Gradebook. Finally, Comments in Docs and Slides gives you another option for assignments that can be graded (or not).
In our next session, which will be our last Classroom session for now, we will cover grading with Classroom. Grading covers a bigger discussion topic than originally anticipated, which is why it will have its own session. This will include how to grade, additional options for grading, and integrating Classroom grades with Progressbook.
In our next session, which will be our last Classroom session for now, we will cover grading with Classroom. Grading covers a bigger discussion topic than originally anticipated, which is why it will have its own session. This will include how to grade, additional options for grading, and integrating Classroom grades with Progressbook.
I hope this helped you get to know a Google feature you didn't already know before. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
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