First Steps: Beginner
Click the image to the right, or the link above to take the literal first steps to create a Google Classroom. If you already have a classroom, you needn't bother yourself with this tool.
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The Slides presentation linked above, and to the right will show you how to create Google Classroom assignments. While there are a few "pro tips" mixed in, this Slides presentation is intended for beginner Google Classroom users.
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Next Steps: Intermediate
Let's not pretend that students will actually look at your feedback, let's assume that this is a CYA before an STE meeting kinda practice.
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The best Google tools make the best assignments. I sincerely endeavor to use a few, high-quality tools repeatedly throughout the year
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Final Steps: Professional
Student Self Evaluation Through Google, and Snapshot CFUs:
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Add a Likert scale to the end of any standard form asking students to assess their confidence or the quality of their own response. Or, you can use a Likert scale form as a TOD for students to rate their own knowledge (in my class, doing this never reveals self evaluation farther than 5.8% off...)
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After accruing data, evidence, answers, etc. in a Google Form, add a column in a Google sheet in which students would add a rating, and an explanation.
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**This is one of the few times you would ever allow all students to "edit" document directly, hence the need for color coding.
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After work is turned in, it's very easy to print out, translate, and use student work as exemplars. We like to use a gallery-walk protocol and a highlighting activity to help students assess each other's work.
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On the Importance of permanent, year-long tools:
Don't think: "I need a document for Tuesday." Think "I'm so annoyed that students still don't get...even though we've been working on it ALL YEAR LONG!" Below are examples of year-long tools I use perennially, and are therefore worth improving, differentiating, and refining.
"Connection Tools" Unit-Level Graphic Organizers
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The two tools linked above are graphic organizers that help students connect their learning throughout a unit. They were met with enthusiasm by students because they made learning predictable, and made final essay writing so easy. While my ELA tools are incredibly writing-based, it would not be difficult to apply the same concepts to more content-based classes.
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