CyberNerd Posted June 29, 2015 Posted June 29, 2015 Manual process for now, but it looks like automation should be forthcoming: Announcing rosterSync: A free Add-on for Google Classroom | New Visions for Public Schools Classroom debuted last year to help teachers and students save time and collaborate with each other, and since then we’ve been working on how to make sure it worked well with other products that educators love and use in their classes. Starting today, developers can embed the Classroom share button and sign up for the developer preview of the Classroom API. These tools make it easy for developers to seamlessly integrate with Classroom in ways that help teachers and students — like letting teachers create assignments directly from Quizlet, Duolingo, PBS and many other favorites. We’ve also got other updates to tell you about, including whitelisted domains and notifications in the Classroom mobile app. Classroom API The Classroom API allows admins to provision and manage classes at scale, and lets developers integrate their applications with Classroom. Until the end of July, we’ll be running a developer preview, during which interested admins and developers can sign up for early access. When the preview ends, all Apps for Education domains will be able to use the API, unless the admin has restricted access. By using the API, admins will be able to provision and populate classes on behalf of their teachers, set up tools to sync their Student Information Systems with Classroom, and get basic visibility into which classes are being taught in their domain. The Classroom API also allows other apps to integrate with Classroom. A few developers have been helping us test the API, and we’re excited to share a few examples of what they’ve built: The New Visions CloudLab (makers of Doctopus) built rosterSync for Sheets, an add-on integrated with Classroom. Harnessing the power of Google Sheets, admins can sync data from any student information system with Classroom. Alma, a hybrid student information and learning management platform, will let schools easily create and sync their class rosters directly to Classroom with just a few clicks. And if an admin adds a student to a class in Alma, that student will get automatically added in the Classroom class. See more in their demo video. And if you use Pear Deck, it’s now easy to start an interactive Pear Deck session with any of your Classroom classes. Just click “Invite from Google Classroom,” choose a class and your students will automatically be invited. Pear Deck will always use your current roster of students from Classroom, so you don’t have to keep rosters up to date across apps. In the Admin Console, admins will be able to restrict whether teachers and students in their domain can authorize apps to access their Google Classroom data. And we don’t permit other apps to use Classroom data from the API for any advertising purposes. Classroom share button Today we’re also introducing the Classroom share button, a simple way for developers – or schools – to allow teachers and students to seamlessly assign or turn-in links, videos and images from another webpage or product. The share button only requires a few lines of JavaScript, and you can customize the button to meet the needs of your website. When teachers and students click the button, they can quickly share to Classroom without having to leave the site they’re on. More than 20 educational content and tool providers have already committed to integrating the Classroom share button, including: PBS Quizlet American Museum of Natural History Discovery Education Duolingo TIME Edge To get started or learn more about either the API or integrating the share button, visit developers.google.com/classroom. And let us know what you’re building using the #withclassroom hashtag on Twitter or G+. As always, we’re looking forward to hearing your feedback and making sure that we’re addressing top needs. We’ll use the developer community site Stack Overflow to field technical questions and feedback about the Classroom API. Please use the tag google-classroom. Other new Classroom and Google Apps for Education features: Whitelisted domains: The ability to whitelist domains will be rolling out over the next few weeks. We shared this with you in March; we’re excited that now you’ll be able to whitelist other Google Apps for Education domains so students, teachers or staff in different domains can effectively work together in Drive and Classroom. Mobile Classroom notifications: In the next few weeks, we’ll be adding mobile notifications in our iOS and Android app. Students can immediately see when they’ve got a new assignment or grade, a note from their teacher or a comment from a fellow student. Re-use previous posts: If you used Classroom this year and want to reuse your assignments or materials in future classes, we’ve got you covered. In August, we’re planning to roll out the ability for you to reuse assignments and posts from old classes. Stay tuned for more details. Easier provisioning of Google Apps accounts for your domain: Creating a large number of Google Apps for Education accounts can be challenging. Last week we introduced a new API to generate available usernames and create Google Apps accounts in your domain: account provisioning for Google Apps. It can be used in a website where users create their own accounts or in a script that creates accounts in bulk. We hope these additions will make it easy to use Classroom alongside all of your favorite educational tools. Google for Education: New ways to integrate with Google Classroom
penfold_99 Posted June 29, 2015 Posted June 29, 2015 @CyberNerd Are you currently using classroom? The integration is pretty straightforward so wouldnt be too complex to setup. Fancy being a test site?
CyberNerd Posted June 30, 2015 Author Posted June 30, 2015 @penfold_99 Yes it is the way all of our homeworks will be set from sept. It is already massively popular with staff. pm me or give me a call about the integration as would be interested.
rpwillis Posted June 30, 2015 Posted June 30, 2015 Been waiting for this for months. Just added support for Google Classroom synchronization today.
dhicks Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Just added support for Google Classroom synchronization today. Is that synchonising data from SIMS? We don't use SIMS, but we can probably get our MIS to export a CSV file on an hourly / daily basis, could your system automatically sync data to Google Classroom from there?
matt40k Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 What MIS are you using? He prob sync from it - Richard isn't very good at keeping his site up2date with the new features, he's too busy adding features
GREED Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 I see this thread has bypassed the services advertisement ban then...
CyberNerd Posted July 2, 2015 Author Posted July 2, 2015 I see this thread has bypassed the services advertisement ban then... Google, rostersync, salamander or SchoolsICT ? I was really just looking for an integration solution.
GREED Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Google, rostersync, salamander or SchoolsICT ? I was really just looking for an integration solution. No no no, not you my friend! The companies touting their wares
dhicks Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 What MIS are you using? School Manager - it's Filemaker-based and doesn't seem to have a large install base, so support by third-party tools tends to be poor. I'll PM rpwillis to ask for further details.
matt40k Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 (edited) @GREED Shh you, go stand in the corner for trying to insight a riot. Edited July 2, 2015 by matt40k Added direction of shh
GREED Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Shh you, go stand in the corner for trying to insight a riot. One rule for some...
matt40k Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 One rule for some... ...another for the folks who pick up the bill
happierlarry Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 Hi everyone, We are just started with Google Classroom and looking at syncing our timetable to staff and pupils from SIMS but I can't seems to find any useful guides on how to do it (there are guides on how to link your AD to Classroom but it's not what I need). So, can someone point me in a right direction, please? Thanks!
RLR Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 Been waiting for this for months. Just added support for Google Classroom synchronization today. Can you give us a bit more information on what this means? Will Salamander sync SIMS classes with Google Classrooms? Kind Regards, Rob
CyberNerd Posted July 9, 2015 Author Posted July 9, 2015 Hi everyone, We are just started with Google Classroom and looking at syncing our timetable to staff and pupils from SIMS but I can't seems to find any useful guides on how to do it (there are guides on how to link your AD to Classroom but it's not what I need). So, can someone point me in a right direction, please? Thanks! You'll need to either write one using the API, or use a service from one of the integration providers (who are busy writing them at the moment by the looks of things)
happierlarry Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 Will Salamander sync SIMS classes with Google Classrooms? It looks like Salamander can do all of that but it's not free. Though I'm not sure of cost.
eean Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 GAM, which is a command line tool harnessing the Google API to manage Google Apps, now supports Classroom. https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/Managing-Google-Classroom It offers a command to sync an existing group with a classroom. If you have SIMS creating AD groups and directory sync pushing those to Google, it shouldn't be too hard to make GAM sync these to classroom. Will still need some scripting to automate the process but it's doable for those not wishing to use paid tools. 1
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