Google Classroom - do you create the classrooms or get the teachers to do this?

[TwistedHelixis]

Just setting up Google Classroom at a small primary school.

 

Do I create the classrooms and then invite the class teacher, or spend time creating documents and getting the teachers to do this themselves? I can see a few of the teachers having issues and needing me to help anyway so I am thinking just doing it myself.

[southhamster]

If it's only a few do it yourself. You can then remove yourself once teachers are setup.I also created 2 dummy classroom with half the staff as a teacher in one and half as students in other and vice versa so staff can have a play and gain confidence.

[BKGarry]

If it is a few, I would recommend doing them yourself, for a Third account.

 

As then you can use that third account to transfer stuff if a teacher changes part way through they year, and your main account will not end up full of emails for notifications for the classrooms.

[TwistedHelixis]

As then you can use that third account to transfer stuff if a teacher changes part way through they year, and your main account will not end up full of emails for notifications for the classrooms.

 

Thanks for the tip

[BKGarry]

Always willing to help. also if you are using GADS, make sure it is set to suspend users when they are taken out of AD and not delete (that caught me out in the past too)

[Out_of_Sync]

We let the teachers set up the rooms, with a specified naming convention form our side.

[paulkerton]

We have Bromcom synchronising this now. Really, really useful.

Every timetabled class gets it's own Classroom and any changes made to rosters in Bromcom syncs overnight with the classes. Really pleased with how it's working.

 

Staff can also still create their own classrooms, should they want more for project work or small group working.

 

If I need to do anything specific in the classes, I use GAM. Keeps my hands clean and I don't need to be a member of a class I'm not directly involved with for some reason.

Whilst GAM is technically a third party - well second party I suppose - app and not directly supported by Google, it's creator, Jay Lee, is a Chrome Enterprise Support Manager at Google.

[dhicks]

Do I create the classrooms and then invite the class teacher, or spend time creating documents and getting the teachers to do this themselves?

 

I would get the process automated as much as possible. Ideally, you'll have class membership / timetabling data already in Active Directory / you MIS, and using a third-party service such as Salamander or Wonde you could have the data synced between the two. You can also use GAM to join teachers / pupils to Classrooms - they don't need to be invited, they can just be joined, and it's always nice when a pupil or teacher logs into Classroom for the first time and all their classes are just there in front of them, ready to go.

[sivanichavan]

Open a web browser and go to Classroom.google.com. You need to log in with your Google Apps for Education account.On the start screen, click the plus sign at the top and choose Create Class.In the Create Class dialog box, enter a class name and section.Click Create. For more platform like google classroom you can check (School Management software | school ERP software | Techior Solution) Edited October 5, 2020 by sivanichavan

[CTIDTech]

If teachers create their own classes, do you have visibility and the ability to manage these too? Add/remove a T/A etc or students?

[Oaktech]

I do all of it, so all the files for classroom remain in a single google drive for easy visibility.