Teaching with Google Classroom

Chapter 5: Handing Out and Taking In Assignments

In previous chapters, you have learned how to use Announcement posts in Stream, Material, and Question posts in Classwork. In this chapter, you will learn about the next post type found in Classwork: the Assignment post. This post allows you to assign documents stored in Google Drive, then have students edit files and then turn them in for grading.

This chapter will focus on assigning and taking in assignments because the grading process is similar to grading a Question post. However, there are some additional features available when grading assignments rather than questions, which the next chapter will explore. Furthermore, these question types heavily incorporate Google Docs and Google Drive, ...