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There was a major update released to Google Classroom . Teachers now have the ability to differentiate posts, assignments, and question activities to specific students. Teachers don't have the ability to create groups within classroom, but can choose which students see certain assignments. If you choose to create one assignment/post to multiple classes you will not be able to select specific students in multiple classes. These assignments/posts will still be seen by all students. This is a features teachers have been asking for for a long time.  Another update that teachers will be interested in is a couple of new notifications they will get when students turn in assignments. Teachers will now get email notification when a student turns in an assignment past the due date. Teachers will also get notifications when a student resubmits an assignment. I've had teachers complain about not knowing when students turn in assignments late. Now those teachers will get email no...

Google announced two updates to Google Classroom recently. Teachers can now add parent's / guardian's emails to their students in a class and those parents / guardians can receive daily or weekly emails showing them what has been posted to the stream. The other update effects items posted to the stream. Teachers can now add topics (or tags) to announcements, assignments, or question activities. Teachers and students can filter these activities by clicking on the topic on the left of the stream. Students can't search the stream but this will help them find activities when their stream gets full. Below are two videos I created showing you the new additions to Google Classroom 

From the first day of Google Classroom teachers have wanted to incorporate Google Forms into their assignments. Since forms are saved in the Google Drive, the assumption was that forms could be attached to assignments just like docs, slides or sheets could be. That was not the case....until today. With today's update, teachers can now directly attach a Google Form to an assignment instead of linking to the assignment. The video below show what it looks like.

A few weeks ago I posted about the first Google Classroom extension called Add to Google Classroom . This was a great addition to a teacher's toolbox and took advantage to Google's Classroom API. The Add to Google Classroom extension allows a teacher to attach a website (or anything with an URL) to a Google Classroom stream in the form of an announcement or assignment without leaving the website and going to the classroom stream. This week a new Classroom extension called Share to Classroom became available. This extension does the same thing the Add to Google Classroom extension does, but with one really cool addition. With the Share to Classroom extension a teacher can push a website (or any other URL) to an entire group of students and that site will load in Chrome on the students Chromebook or computer. NOTE: at this point I have not tried it with pushing sites to iPads. The video below I found on YouTube shows you how the new extension works. Teachers need to make sure t...

Google came out with some pretty big updates this week. The video below takes you through what's new. In the coming weeks teachers will see Calendar integration in Classroom and the ability to directly add a Google Form to an assignment or announcement instead of linking to it. As always you can send the Google Classroom team feedback on what you would like to see. They listen to all teachers and make improvements based on what you want.