Google Classroom

Google Classrooms are online collaborative working environments for teachers and learners.

Teachers can set up a class, invite students and co-teachers and then share information such as assignments, announcements and questions in the class stream. They can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work and give direct, real-time feedback and grades.

Learners can join classes set up by their teacher, see assignments on the To-do page, in the class stream, or in the class calendar and all class materials are automatically filed into Google Drive folders.

Setting up Google classroom

First day with Google Classroom (Google for Education)

Creating pre-populated Classrooms in the User Management Portal

In a school, Google Classrooms may be created for timetabled classes in a school’s MIS by staff or a Hwb administrator:

1. Log in to Hwb and go to User Management.
2. Click Administration: View Groups.
3. Use the Filters to display the required class by selecting the year, group type, teacher or academic year. (Hwb administrators will see all classes in the school however, teachers will only see their own classes).
4. Click on a class to display information for that group. This will include an overview and a list of all learners in that group.
5. Click Add Google Classroom + to create the Google Classroom. Classrooms are usually created within a few minutes however, it may take up to an hour at busier times of the day.

What to consider before using Google classroom

• As with every virtual online learning space, you must always add another education practitioner for safeguarding purposes.
• It is important that the classroom owner takes responsibility for adding and removing other staff members as appropriate.
• Once the classroom has been created, other teachers can be added as joint owners in the Google Classroom app.

Adding teachers to a pre-populated classroom in the User Management Portal

Hwb administrators have the option to add themselves as teachers of a pre-populated Google Classroom in the User Management Portal:

1. Log in to Hwb and go to User Management.
2. Click Administration: View Groups.
3. Use the Filters to display the required class by selecting the year, group type, teacher or academic year (Hwb administrators will see all classes in the school however, teachers will only see their own classes).
4. Click on a class to display information for that group. This will include an overview and a list of all learners in that group.
5. Click Manage Google Classroom.
6. Click Add as Teacher, then OK.

The owner of a classroom can also add other staff as teachers in the Google Classroom app.

Recovering an archived pre-populated classroom

Occasionally, classrooms get archived either unintentionally or prematurely by owners or teachers. These classrooms can be recovered. This will restore the classroom exactly as it was before it was archived, including files, documents, assignments, membership and name.

Teachers or owners of the classrooms can recover these in the Google Classroom app:

1. Click the Main menu at the top left of the screen (3 horizontal lines).
2. Click Archived classes.
3. Click Restore.
4. Click Confirm Restore.

Hwb administrators can also recover an archived Google Classroom from the User Management Portal:

1. Log in to Hwb and go to User Management.
2. Click Administration: View Groups.
3. Use the Filters to display the required class by selecting the year, group type, teacher or academic year (Hwb administrators will see all classes in the school however, teachers will only see their own classes).
4. Click on a class to display information for that group. This will include an overview and a list of all learners in that group.
5. Click Manage Google Classroom.
6. Click Unarchive, then OK.

Restoring a pre-populated Google Classroom from a previous academic year

All classrooms created via the User Management Portal are automatically archived at the end of the academic year.

Hwb administrators, School Administrators and Staff are able to restore their classrooms from a previous academic year, by following the simple steps below:

1. Login to Hwb and go to User Management.
2. Click Administration: View Groups.
3. Use the Filters to display the required class by selecting the year, group type, teacher or academic year (Hwb administrators will see all classes in the school, but teachers will only see their own classes).
4. Click on a class to display information for that group. This will include an overview and a list of all learners in that group.
5. Click Restore Google Classroom.

Although you can usually restore classrooms quickly, during busier times it can take up to an hour before you are able to see the classroom again. Any restored Classroom will no longer be linked to the schools MIS.

Gemini in Google Classroom

Find out more about accessing and using Gemini in Google Classroom and the key features and benefits.

Further Classroom support

We recommend you visit the Google Classroom Help website to learn more about Google Classroom.

Further support for using rubrics can be found on the Google help site.