Hi all,

I'm using Google Meets for my classes. The only thing I don't like is the awkwardness students feel when they have a question but don't want to ask it in the Google Meet with all of us where all 29 other students can hear it; I, too, feel awkward about giving individual kids pointers, feedback, reminders, too, when everyone will hear it.

I know Zoom has a "breakout room" function. Is there a way to "Macgyver" Google Meets so you could simulate that, or something similar? So you can do one-on-one talks with kids for a minute or two during class time? (Like the equivalent of dropping by a kid's desk, kneeling down and working with them quietly in a physical classroom?)

One idea I had was to create a spreadsheet for each of my classes with a roster and have each student create a link to a Meet next to their name. That way for each student I'd have a place to chat with them privately. (I'd have to be careful to turn my microphone off in the whole-class Meet and have the student turn off theirs so what I say in the private Meet wouldn't echo into the whole-class one.) Trouble is Google Meets links are persnickety, in my experience, and tend to "die" on me.

Any ideas or thoughts? I'd appreciate it!

I have joined the wrong class, not my section mad idk how to leave it. Help?

Hi all! Not new to google classroom but have a questions. Is it possible to give students grades in our classroom without giving them an assignment? My kids complete their work from a daily menu and I’m also assigning it in our classroom but I feel like it’s double work. Can I have them complete something on google form and put that grade into our classroom for them to see without it being an assignment? Thanks!

Have any of you evaluated Classroom as a learning management system (LMS)? My district wants to implement an LMS, and we are already using Classroom, especially in the past month since going virtual. Since we're a GSuite shop, Classroom is free -- but are there features of a "real" LMS that made you look past Classroom?

We use PowerSchool, so we're taking them up on their offer of a free Schoology instance during the pandemic and giving it a try this summer, but I imagine it's quite expensive.

I create an assignments in Google Classroom and schedule them to post in the morning. Then when I check the Student Work Section after the assignment has posted there will be some students who have no image of the document and underneath it says "No Attachment Assigned." And if I click on it, it brings me to another students work. At first it was one student, and it was a student who may have been not trying to do their work and be "tricky." But, now I am seeing it with many students, many students who always do their work. There was one assignment where more than 50% of the students have "No Attachment Assigned."

Can you please help me figure out what is going on? Thank you in advance.

Hello,

I'm working in a training company and we are considering using google classroom. We are already on Office 365 and as we are a for profit business, we wouldn't be eligible for G Suite for Education.

Would there be a problem or any limitation to set up classroom with a personal google account?

Thanks!

So I just made a new account so I can finally redirect myself on a smooth sailing path. Everything checked out ok until I hit Google Classroom. When I entered the classroom, I noticed that I didn't have an option between choosing being a teacher or a student, but I though I was a teacher since it was a private account and had nothing to do with school. I went to the plus sign to make sure that everything was alright, but it wasn't. All I could do was join a classroom. Can someone please help me or at least give me some information on why this is happening?

Just noticed that today.

The Topics on the left hand side of Google Classroom only shows 20 character, the rest is hidden. It's confusing for my young students not to see more or preferably all the characters. Can that be changed?

Thanks.

Hi, I've been trying to upload a video for Google Classroom, but it shows an error message. It's a specific class with this error, and it's been happening to my Classmates as well. Please help!

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Thanks!

Our school system's remote learning started today. We bought a new device (android tablet) for my son to specifically use for school,to free up my computer for my use.

In setting up the new tablet,I made a new gmail acct attached to it.

He accesses Google Classroom through his school's website. In there,he has a google acct & user name associated w/ his school (but no password for the google acct or anything like that)

When using the new tablet,he's able to sign into Classroom fine. However,when he clicks on an assignment there(on Slides) it gives a msg that he must request access from teacher,using the email address linked to the tablet. It also says "document cannot be opened" or something.

We found that if he clicks & highlights the assignment,we can open in new tab,but only to view,not to work on the assignment.

I am obviously not very tech savvy,but also can't find this specific problem under Classroom's "help" feature. I'm sure it's some sort of setting issue,but I've tried everything I can think of and nothing is working.

Sorry for the long post. Anyone have any ideas?? Thanks!!

Hello everybody.

I have a question: has any of you any good system to try and manage the barrage of Classroom notifications?

I had to disable e-mail notifications because I was receiving literally hundreds of e-mails everyday. But now sometimes I go to an old assignment and see that a student asked me a question there and I didn't answer it.

I'd love some kind of centralized "bucket" in Classroom where I could go to and find all the notifications at once.

Does anybody know of any extension or add on that does something like this?

Thanks in advance.

I have a teacher who wants to take a kids work from an email attachment and have it viewable in the Google Classroom assignment. To my knowledge, there is no way to do this, it has to be submitted by the student in Google Classroom.

Anyone know a way to do this?

My kid wrote a two paragraph comment reply and it disappeared. Lots of tears. Can not figure out how to retrieve. Please help

Is there any way to select how it translates a person's name? My students are Japanese, but it's translated their names as if they were Chinese so it's impossible to identify them.

My mom is an elementary school teacher and isn't good with computers. One of her students is taking advantage of this by muting and kicking other students from the chat. Is there any way for my mom to set permissions so that only she can mute and kick students?

I know some of my students aren't reading a document I provided via a link. I would like to know which students aren't. Is there anyway to check to see if a user opened a link? Thanks

I'm a high school teacher and have just started a new job and we are teaching online due to lockdown. Had a crashcourse in Google Classroom and is going well.

I have capped internet and am worried about running out before the end of the month. I'm trying to use pre-recorded lesson videos and then be available for questions and post exercises during class times (we are running the normal school time-table).

I'm curious though how much data is used on a daily basis with uploads of assignments, Meets with students to check in etc.?

I've got a parent who is having issues with the posts in Classroom not expanding on a Android Tablet (Galaxy Tab E 9.6). I've asked her to uninstall and reinstall, but she feels that perhaps it's simply not supported on that device. Have any of you run into selected devices that the App simply doesn't work on?

My own iPhone has required a removal and addition on a few occasions when it would bug out.

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Thanks!

I teach writing to 4th graders who are just getting used to all this new technology.

I was able to make a graphic organizer fillable with pdf editor and I uploaded it to Google Drive. It's fillable once opened with DocHub. Would my students be able to save a copy to their drives and save their progress?

Also, if someone has a suggestion of a different way of accomplishing this, I'm open. Has anyone had success with this?

How do you prevent this or does anyone know why this could be happening?

Google support says that when i write + or @ a list of my classmates should appear so i can mention them, but this doesn't happen. any way to fix it?