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The Parents' Guide to Google Classroom PPTThe Parents' Guide to Google Classroom PPT
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K - 12th
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21 Century Skills
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The Parents' Guide to Google Classroom

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Keeping abreast of how your child is doing in school can be a challenge. Never fear, help is here in the form of Google Classroom. Teachers use this platform to post assignments, check homework, and share newsletters with students and parents. The Parents' Guide to Google Classroom offers 16 slides with step-by-step illustrated instructions to connect parents to what's going on at school.

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Concepts

google classroom, google apps, parent communication, remote learning

Additional Tags

classroom support

Instructional Ideas

  • Preview the entire presentation as a whole and then go back and slowly explore each slide
  • Set aside a block of time (an hour should do) to fully explore the resource
  • Consider color printing the "Google Icons to Recognize" slide and posting near your computer

Classroom Considerations

  • Presumes teachers have set up a Google Classroom account with parent access, otherwise, the student's secure login and password are required
  • To customize the presentation make a copy of it in your own Google Drive

Pros

  • A gold star indicates tools of high interest for parents
  • Google Classroom may be accessed any from android or iPhone, tablet, or desktop

Cons

  • None

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Confidential Parent Questionnaire

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Google Classroom: Communicating with Students

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