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How To Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

Whether you are participating in distance learning or live and in-person in the traditional classroom, Google Classroom is a fantastic way to deliver and organize student work. Even though it’s definitely my go-to for assignments, it can be frustrating for teachers and students alike if your Google Classroom is not organized. Google has listened to teachers and added so many features that help them organize assignments efficiently for student learning. Here are some tips to help you organize assignments in your Google Classroom!

Whenever you post an assignment on Classroom, you have the option to Create or choose a Topic. First, go to the Classwork tab. Next, you can create an assignment and select or create a topic on the assignment page.

You can also choose to create a topic directly from the create button as well.

From the Classwork page, you’ll see all topics you’ve created on the left-hand side. Topics are the best way to organize units, content areas, and modules for students. From their own Classwork page, students can easily see what topics have been assigned.

You may choose to name topics according to subjects if you’re in an elementary classroom. Some teachers name topics based on the unit of study. Still, other teachers may designate topics based on the type of assignment. For example, for the Standards-Based Mini Assessments for Math, you may choose a topic of “Math Assessments”.

To reorganize your topics, click on the three dots (or grapes) to move topics up or down on the Classwork page. I like to keep the most current units on top so my students can easily access and see the work I want them to focus on.

After you assign work and create topics for students, you’ll want to be able to organize assignments for grading purposes. Enter the To-do tab!

Start by clicking on the three horizontal lines in the upper left hand corner of your Google Classroom screen. Choose the “To-do” option.

Once you click on “to-do”, you’ll see a list of all the assignments your students have completed. Next to the assignments, you’ll see how many students have turned in the assignment. That is the number you need to grade, so the goal is to keep that number as low as possible. The assigned number is the students that still need to turn in the assignment. Finally, the returned number is the assignments that you have graded and returned back to students.

Using the “To-do” tab helps me know exactly what my grading tasks are. If you have multiple classes, everything will be listed in the “To-do” tab. It’s your one-stop for grading!

Students and teachers love using Google Calendar to make sure they are getting work done! Go back to the three horizontal lines at the top of your classroom and click on “Calendar”. You’ll see your weekly (or monthly) calendar with all assigned tasks and their due dates.

Click on the drop-down menu that says “All classes” to choose one class or keep all class assignments listed. The best part about accessing Google Calendar for both teachers and students is that assignments show up as notifications or reminders even if you aren’t accessing Classroom. If you have a smartphone, you probably have Google Calendar. Why not have student assignments become part of your overall to-do list on your calendar?

Organizing assignments in Google Classroom not only helps students to see their own work via the Classwork page, it also allows you to have easy access to see what has been turned in and needs to be graded, all in one place! Try these tips to get your Google Classroom organized for your students.

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Along with instruction and assessment, assignments form the foundation of the teaching and learning process. They provide opportunities for students to practice the skills and apply the knowledge that they have been taught in a supportive environment. It also helps the teacher gauge how well students are learning the material and how close they are to mastery.

Because of the nature of assignments, managing them can get hectic. That’s why its best to use a platform like Google Classroom to help you manage assignments digitally. In today’s tip, we will discuss 48 ways that you can use Classroom to manage student assignments.

• Assignment Status – Easily check how many students turned in an assignment as well as how many assignments have been graded by going to the Classwork tab and clicking on the title of the assignment.
• Assign to Multiple Classes – Post an assignment to multiple classes by using the “for” drop-down menu when creating an assignment.
• Brainstorm – Use Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings to brainstorm for class assignments.
• Calendar of Due Dates – Link a Google Calendar with due dates for assignments, tests, and other important dates into Classroom.
• Check Homework – Classroom makes checking homework easy with a quick glance at the assignment page. If more detailed grading is needed, just access the grading interface for the assignment.
• Choice Boards – Give students a choice in how they demonstrate what they know by creating a choice board and uploading it as an assignment. Choice boards allow students to choose between several assignments and can be created directly in Classroom, using Google Docs, or with third-party apps.
• Co-Teach Classes – Invite others to co-teach in your Classroom. Each teacher is able to create assignments and post announcements for students.
• Create Questions Before a Socratic Seminar – Create an assignment for students to develop questions before a Socratic seminar. During the collaborative process, students can eliminate duplicate questions.
• Detention Assignment Sheet – Create a detention assignment sheet using Google Docs. The assignment sheet can then be shared with the detention teacher and individual students privately through Classroom.
• Differentiate Assignments – Assign work to individual students or groups of students in Classroom.
• Differentiate by Product – Differentiate by product in Classroom by providing a challenge, variety, or choice or by using a continuum with assignments.
• Digital Portfolios – Students can create digital portfolios of their work by uploading documents, pictures, artifacts, etc. to Classroom assignments.
• Directions Document – Use Google Docs to create instruction documents for assignments in Classroom.
• Distribute Student Work/Homework – Use Classroom to distribute student assignments or homework to all students, groups of students, or individual students.
• Diversify Student Submissions – Create alternative submission options for students through the assignment tool. For example, one group of students may be required to submit a Google Doc while another group is required to submit a Slides presentation.
• Do-Now Activities – Use Classroom to post Do-Now Activities.
• Draft Assignments – Save posts as drafts until they are ready for publishing.
• Feedback Before Student Submits – Provide feedback to students while their assignment is still a work in progress instead of waiting until submission. This will help the student better understand assignment expectations.
• Get Notified of Late Assignments – Select notification settings to get notified each time an assignment is turned in late.
• Global Classroom – Partner with international teachers to create a co-teaching classroom without borders where students can work on collaborative assignments.
• Graphic Organizers – Upload graphic organizers for students to collaborate on assignments and projects.
• Group Collaboration – Assign multiple students to an assignment to create a collaborative group. Give students editing rights to allow them access to the same document.
• HyperDocs – Create and upload a hyperdoc as an assignment.
• Link to Assignments – Create links to assignments not created in Classroom.
• Link to Class Blog – Provide the link to a class blog in Classroom.
• Link to Next Activity – Provide a link to the next activity students must complete after finishing an assignment.
• Make a Copy for Each Student – Chose “make a copy for each student” when uploading assignment documents to avoid students having to share one copy of the document. When a copy for each student is made, Classroom automatically adds each student’s name to the document and saves it to the Classroom folder in Google Drive.
• Move to Top/Bottom – Move recent assignments to the top of the Classwork feed so students can find new tasks more quickly.
• Multiple File Upload – Upload multiple files for an assignment in one post.
• Naming Conventions for Assignments – Create a unique naming system for assignments so they can be easily found in the Classroom folder in Google Drive.
• Offline Mode – Change settings to allow students to work in offline mode if internet connections are weak. Once an internet connection is established, students can upload assignments to Classroom.
• One Student One Sheet – In Google Sheets, assign one tab (sheet) per student for the student to complete the assignment.
• One Student One Slide – In Google Slides, assign one slide to each student to present findings on a topic or to complete an assignment.
• Organize Student Work – Google Classroom automatically creates calendars and folders in Drive to keep assignments organized.
• Peer Tutors – Assign peer tutors to help struggling students with assignments.
• Protect Privacy – Google Classroom only allows class members to access assignments. Also, it eliminates the need to use email, which may be less private than Classroom.
• Provide Accommodations – Provide accommodations to students with disabilities in Google Classroom by allowing extra time to turn in assignments, using text to speech functions, and third-party extensions for colored overlays.
• Reorder Assignments by Status – Instead of organizing assignments by student first or last name, organize them by status to see which students have or have not turned in work.
• Reuse Posts – Reuse post from prior assignments or from other Classrooms.
• See the Process – Students don’t have to submit their assignments for you to see their work. When you chose “make a copy for each student” for assignments, each student’s work can be seen in the grading tool, even if it’s not submitted. Teachers can make comments and suggestions along the way.
• Share Materials – Upload required materials such as the class syllabus, rules, procedures, etc. to a Class Resources Module, or upload assignment materials within the assignment.
• Share Resources – Create a resource list or a resource module for students.
• Share Solutions to an Assignment – Share solutions to an assignment with a collaborator or students after all assignments have been turned in.
• Stop Repeating Directions – By posting a directions document to assignments, the need to continually repeat directions is lessened, if not eliminated altogether. Keep in mind that some students will still need directions to read orally or clarified.
• Student Work Collection – Use Classroom to collect student work from assignments.
• Summer Assignments – Create summer assignments for students through Classroom.
• Templates – Create templates for projects, essays, and other student assignments.
• Track Assignments Turned In – Keep track of which students turned in assignments by going to the grading tool.

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How to Organize Your Google Classroom Assignments

Getting ready to set up your Google Classroom ? One of the first things you’ll want to do is decide how to organize your multiple subject areas on Google Classroom. Should you organize by unit? Week? Should you start a new Google Classroom for each content area or term? Here are some tips to organize your Google Classroom assignments!

Grade Level or Content Area Google Classrooms

Should you have a Google Classroom for each subject/content area or create a whole classroom for your grade level class?

Generally, upper elementary teachers and above prefer to use content specific classrooms. Students are more used to navigating multiple Google Classrooms.

For PreK (yes, they can use Google Classroom too) to early elementary, keeping everything housed in one Google Classroom usually works best for your learners. Teaching students to navigate and keeping yourself organized is easy, however, when you use topics to organize your Google Classroom Assignments!

Topic Organization

First, you’ll notice that you can tag each assignment or material you post, you can tag it with a topic! The topic feature is something veteran Google Classroom teachers asked for, and Google delivered!

Even though topics help you organize your units and assignments, you’ll still need to decide HOW to organize them. What should you title your topics?

Subject Areas

The first option is to organize your topics by subject areas. Choose the main subjects you teach: reading, writing, math, science, social studies, for example. Tag each assignment with the topic pertaining to the subject or content area. Along the left-hand side, your students will see the list of topics. They can click on the topics to see their assignments organized by subject areas.

Weekly Assignments

If you teach multiple content areas or a special, this may be a perfect way for you to organize your Google Classroom assignments. This method can work well if you house all your subject areas in one Google Classroom but it generally works better when you have a separate Google Classroom for each content area.

Students can then look at content in the order it was posted by clicking on the topics (Week 1, Week 2, etc.) on the Classwork page along the left-hand side.

Organizing your Google Classroom assignments by units makes sense for a lot of teachers and their students! Label the topics by the unit of study whether you use one grade level classroom or multiple for different content areas.

For example, you can create topics including “Space and Solar System” for Science or Area & Perimeter for Math class!

Google Classroom Timelines

If your course or class stays together all year, keep the same Google Classrooms! It’s completely acceptable to delete topics and clean up content.

On the other hand, if your class changes students each semester or quarter, start a new Classroom. You can archive the previous class and even reuse posts and assignments without starting fresh, but new students do not have to navigate through old content. It keeps everyone organized!

Learning how to organize your Google Classroom assignments will not only help you to start fresh in the new year but it will keep your students on track as well. What tips do you have for organizing your assignments in Google Classroom?

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Creating assignments and materials

Google Classroom gives you the ability to create and assign work for your students, all without having to print anything. Questions , essays , worksheets , and readings can all be distributed online and made easily available to your class. If you haven't created a class already, check out our Getting Started with Google Classroom lesson.

Watch the video below to learn more about creating assignments and materials in Google Classroom.

Creating an assignment

Whenever you want to create new assignments, questions, or material, you'll need to navigate to the Classwork tab.

In this tab, you can create assignments and view all current and past assignments. To create an assignment, click the Create button, then select Assignment . You can also select Question if you'd like to pose a single question to your students, or Material if you simply want to post a reading, visual, or other supplementary material.

This will bring up the Assignment form. Google Classroom offers considerable flexibility and options when creating assignments.

Click the buttons in the interactive below to become familiar with the Assignment form.

This is where you'll type the title of the assignment you're creating.

Instructions

If you'd like to include instructions with your assignment, you can type them here.

Here, you can decide how many points an assignment is worth by typing the number in the form. You can also click the drop-down arrow to select Ungraded if you don't want to grade an assignment.

You can select a due date for an assignment by clicking this arrow and selecting a date from the calendar that appears. Students will have until then to submit their work.

In Google Classroom, you can sort your assignments and materials into topics. This menu allows you to select an existing topic or create a new one to place an assignment under.

Attachments

You can attach files from your computer , files from Google Drive , URLs , and YouTube videos to your assignments.

Google Classroom gives you the option of sending assignments to all students or a select number .

Once you're happy with the assignment you've created, click Assign . The drop-down menu also gives you the option to Schedule  an assignment if you'd like it to post it at a later date.

You can attach a rubric to help students know your expectations for the assignment and to give them feedback.

Once you've completed the form and clicked Assign , your students will receive an email notification letting them know about the assignment.

Google Classroom takes all of your assignments and automatically adds them to your Google Calendar. From the Classwork tab, you can click Google Calendar to pull this up and get a better overall view of the timeline for your assignments' due dates.

Using Google Docs with assignments

When creating an assignment, there may often be times when you want to attach a document from Google Docs. These can be helpful when providing lengthy instructions, study guides, and other material.

When attaching these types of files, you'll want to make sure to choose the correct setting for how your students can interact with it . After attaching one to an assignment, you'll find a drop-down menu with three options.

Let's take a look at when you might want to use each of these:

• Students can view file : Use this option if the file is simply something you want your students to view but not make any changes to.
• Students can edit file : This option can be helpful if you're providing a document you want your students to collaborate on or fill out collectively.
• Make a copy for each student : If you're creating a worksheet or document that you want each student to complete individually, this option will create a separate copy of the same document for every student.

Using topics

On the Classwork tab, you can use  topics to sort and group your assignments and material. To create a topic, click the Create button, then select Topic .

Topics can be helpful for organizing your content into the various units you teach throughout the year. You could also use it to separate your content by type , splitting it into homework, classwork, readings, and other topic areas.

In our next lesson , we'll explore how to create quizzes and worksheets with Google Forms, further expanding how you can use Google Classroom with your students.

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When you begin to use a learning management system it is important to determine how you will organize materials. There should be consistency in your class so that students understand where to find information and how to submit work. Google Classroom is a popular learning management system that integrates with other Google tools to share and collaborate. Let’s explore some of the different ways you can organize materials in Google Classroom.

To organize information in Google Classroom you will use Topics on the Classwork page. Kasey Bell at Shake Up Learning discusses several ways you can use topics in Google Classroom to organize classroom materials.

Organize By Units or Modules Organize By Week Organize By Type of Assignment Organize By Subject Areas (best for elementary) Organize By Adding “Today” Topic

I like to organize my materials by Units or Modules. Students in my class often complete work at different paces so one student may be working on assignments for Unit 2 while others and still finishing Unit 1. This makes it hard to use the Organize by Week or Organize by Adding “Today” Topic.

Choosing a way to organize your class materials is important because if students don’t understand how to find and submit assignments they will become frustrated. Before implementing a learning management system like Google Classroom reflect on what organizational method makes the most sense for your students and class.

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Organization is the key to every successful classroom, but what do you do when you need to organize a digital classroom? Whether you have students learning virtually or in person, having a digital classroom is an awesome way to keep your students engaged and excited about their learning. Keeping all of your digital lesson plans in one place is awesome, but if you don’t organize them it can be frustrating and hard to find what you need throughout the school year. I am so excited to share with you how some of my favorite ways to organize a digital classroom.

Organizing Google Drive

No matter how your students are learning, using a digital classroom is an awesome way to keep yourself and your students organized. A digital classroom can be a one-stop-shop for students to get the information they need, watch instructional or supplemental videos, and even turn in homework. Keeping it all organized will help you to feel more prepared and less overwhelmed. Google Drive is perfect for keeping you organized and sane year after year.

Folders are Your Friend!

Just like you would use folders to organize lesson plans and materials in your in-person classroom, folders in Google drive help keep things easily accessible.

You can drag and drop lesson plans, videos, PDF files, and anything else that relates to a specific lesson or project into one folder. Then it’s as easy as naming the folder and even color-coding it if you want!

Ideas for ways to organize your folders could include:

• By grade level
• Subject area
• Printable materials
• Quizzes and tests

These are just a few ways to organize your digital materials. It’s important to find something that works for you that you can commit to. Once you start organizing your digital materials you will love how much time it saves you every single year.

For easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on organizing google drive , check out my YouTube video!

Organizing Google Classroom

I love Google classroom so much! Whether I’m teaching in person or virtually, Google classroom is a lifesaver! The topic feature is my absolute favorite! If you aren’t familiar with this feature, you are missing out!

Organizing Your Stream

In Google classroom, the stream of assignments can become overcrowded and busy. To keep me sane, I like to organize my assignments by subject and topic.

Just like creating folders in Google drive, you can easily organize your assignments in Google classroom by topic in the classwork tab.

It really is as easy as creating a new topic and typing in what you want to name it. You can even add fun emojis to your topic to make it eye-catching and fun for your students.

You can click, drag, and pull your topics to organize them on the page making your assignments easy for your students to find.

Topics I like to have in my Google classroom include:

• Today’s work
• Writing assignments
• I’m DONE! Now What?
• Social Studies

Having an I’m DONE Now What? topic has been a game-changer in my classroom! My students know when they finish early, they can hop over to the I’m DONE Now What? topic and find fun things to do what having to ask that dread question, “I’m done! Now what?”

I can also copy a link from a topic and paste it into my Google site, email it to students, or put it in my Google slide for students to click on. When students click on the link they are taken to the topic within Google classroom making it easy for them to find.

If you haven’t tried Topics yet, I encourage you to give it a try! I think you’ll love it as much as I do!

Use Settings to Help You Stay Organized in Google Classroom

Using the settings tab in Google classroom opens up some more great ways to organize your lesson plans.

Settings include:

• Adding a Google meet link
• Allow students to comment on assignments
• Make notifications hidden or visible
• Show deleted items

Using topics and adjusting your settings can help you organize your Google classroom in a way that makes sense to you and will help your students quickly find what they are looking for. And when you and your students can quickly and easily find information, it makes for a smooth running classroom.

Be sure to check out my YouTube video for detailed instructions on organizing your Google classroom!

Organize Now, Save Time Later

Using technology in the classroom is a win-win and can really help your students feel engaged and excited about their learning. Keeping your Google drive and Google classroom organized will make your teacher life so much better. Once you have everything organized, you can add, remove, and edit quickly year after year which will save you valuable teacher time.

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Google Classroom is a fantastic platform for disseminating information as well as for pushing out assignments and receiving submissions. However, if not organized, it can be very overwhelming for both teachers and students. Here are some tips for managing and organizing those assignments and submissions.

• Understand and use Drive folders First, let’s take a second to clarify how Classroom Drive folders work. When a class is created in Classroom, a Drive folder for that class is simultaneously created. Only the teacher has access to this folder, so anything added to the folder will not be seen by the students. Similarly, when students are added to the class, a personal drive folder is created for each of them. The teacher does not have access to the student folder, only to the documents turned in. When a student submits an assignment digitally, Classroom automatically creates a subfolder in the teacher’s class drive folder, pre-labeled with the name of the assignment. All student submissions will be stored in this folder, labeled with the student name. This is great for organization!  From there, you can choose to leave it and have the folder organized by assignment, or move the submission to a folder shared with your student.
• Create naming conventions Creating a naming convention helps you and your students to easily identify what the document is, and makes it easily searchable. I recommend using the following: Unit or Period number – Name of Unit – Type of Document .  A document using this naming convention might look something like this:  “2nd Period ELA – Poetry – e.e.cummings Reading”. Of course, it is always best for you to create something you can remember and your students will understand, so feel free to use any naming convention that works best for you, just remember to keep it consistent. 
• Number assignments By numbering assignments, you are now giving students a quick reference. Instead of typing out or saying the whole title, you can just say, “please see and turn in assignment #5.”  This will also help you keep track of what has been turned in.  You can choose to number just the assignments that will be turned in, or all assignments.  
• Create topics   Creating topics in Google Classroom is like creating folders in Google Drive. By creating a “Week” topic, students can easily see what is expected of them for the week. Another suggestion is to create a “Day” topic. In the “Day” topic, you can put things like attendance forms, Do Nows, exit tickets, and anything else the student will need that day. Other suggestions are creating unit topics, assignment type topics, or subject topics. 
• Disable stream assignment alerts Another great tip is to disable the assignment alerts in the stream. You can do this by going to the settings gear and selecting “Classwork On The Stream” and “Hide Notifications”.  This will keep the stream clear and you can use it just for class announcements. Of course, make sure to remind your students to check the “Classwork” tab, or pin that as an announcement on the top of the stream.
• Use due dates The last tip is to create due dates. If you set a due date, after that date has passed, students will no longer be able to edit or submit the assignment. This prevents you from receiving late assignments or constant edits. This is also a great way to set clear expectations and accountability.

By keeping assignments and submissions organized, you will be saving you and your students’ time and it will help keep expectations clear.  Be sure to check out our accompanying OTIS course, Managing submissions and Assignments in Google Classroom for resources and tips to get you started.

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