Many school districts are using a Single Sign-On (SSO) platform to house all of their virtual learning. This is helpful because the kids (and parents) know to go to the same place every day to find their assignments. My district has chosen Google for Education for several years now, and I have used it in music classes as well.
When creating your class in Google Classroom (GC), there are several settings you should pay attention to. Different settings can be found in two different places within GC. Settings for one individual GC are found by clicking on the gear symbol in the top right corner. This covers settings unique to the class you are working in.
- Class details
- Class code and invitation to join
- Stream settings (who can post and comment)
- Guardian summaries (to send or not to send)
- Meet link (a permanent Google Meet link assigned to your class)
- Grading settings
In addition to these settings, there are more that apply to ALL of your classes in GC. To find those, click on the three lines (menu) symbol in the top left corner. Scroll alllll the way down to find Settings. Here you will find
- Your Profile and Password information
- Notifications --this is where to go if you are getting too many email notifications, or not enough.
Before inviting students to join your class, take a minute to design your settings to fit your teaching style. The most important ones for me are Stream settings (I don't allow students to post or comment), the Meet link (keep it hidden until you are opening up a class meet), and Notifications (some people hate getting 47,000 emails a day).
After helping several people find these settings, I decided to make a video showing how and where to access all of these. To see a demonstration in my (dummy) class, along with more details about how and why I use mine, click on the video below:
Keep Singing,
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