Innovative Instruction

If you are a Google Classroom user, you will LOVE the new updates!  If you haven't tried using it yet, this might be the year to start.  It's a dashboard that will save you so much time while managing lessons and student work.  Here's a summary of the new features:

August 2016

Blog post (English only)

• Guardian summaries: Teachers and administrators can invite guardians to sign up for email summaries to keep up with their students. Guardians can choose how often to get a summary—daily or weekly—and can unsubscribe at any time. Summaries include a student’s missing or upcoming work as well as new announcements and questions posted by teachers in the class stream.
• Topics for stream organization: Teachers can organize the class stream by adding topics to posts. Teachers and students can filter the stream by topic.
• Teachers and students can preview materials attached to assignments or posts.
• Teachers and students can view email notifications by class using Inbox by Gmail. Important updates from recent emails are highlighted in each bundle.
• Teachers can add a subject when creating a class.

New mobile app features:

• Mobile annotations: Teachers and students can draw on, highlight, and write notes on documents and PDFs in the Classroom mobile app.
• Teachers can poll their students using multiple-choice questions and allow students to see a summary of their classmates' answers.
• On Apple® iOS®, teachers can post to multiple classes. 

There were many other updates made in 2016 to make this one of the most popular and easy to use management systems in schools today.  Click HERE to read about more capabilities of the program.  If you are looking for a one-stop-shop for classroom organization, this tool is amazing! 

Disclaimer: No, I am not getting ANY kickbacks from Google, for promoting Classroom!  But I want to help make your lives easier and this might do the trick!