Creating Google Classroom

Follow these steps to create a class:

1. Open a Web browser and go to classroom.google.com. You have to sign in with your Google Apps for Education account.
2. On the Welcome screen, click the plus sign at the top and choose Create Class.
3. In the Create a Class dialogue box, type in the Class Name and Section.
4. Click Create.
   
   

Your new classroom is created (see Figure 1). You can see that the classroom has three main tabs. Here’s what those tabs mean:

• Stream: This is where you manage your class assignments and make announcements to the class. You can add new assignments, with due dates and attached materials. Upcoming assignments are shown at the left. Also, just with social media services, you can send a message to your entire class — even with an attachment.
• Students: This is where you manage your students. You can invite students to your classroom from here and manage their permissions level. To invite students to your class, you have to set them up as Google Contacts in your Google Apps for Education account or they have to be in the school’s directory.
• About: This is where you can add the course title and description, add a location for the class, and add materials to your class’s Google Drive folder.
  
  

  Figure 1: Your new classroom.
  
  
  
  

GOOGLE CLASSROOM:

Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students. 

Google Classroom integrates docs, sheets, slides, gmail, and calendar into a cohesive platform to manage student and teacher communication. Students can be invited to join a class through a private code, or automatically imported from a school domain. 

Teachers can create, distribute and mark assignments all within the google ecosystem. Each class creates a separate folder in the respective user's drive, where the student can submit work to be graded by a teacher. Assignments and due dates are added to google calendar, each assignment can belong to a category (or topic). 

Teachers can monitor the progress for each student by reviewing revision history of a document, and after being graded, teachers can return work along with comments