Get started with Classroom for teachers

Invite people to your class

• Invite students to your class
• Add a co-teacher to a class

Post announcements or send emails

• Post announcements to your students
• Email students, co-teachers or guardians
• Set up guardian email summaries

Use Google Meet with Classroom

• Start a video meeting for education

Do the basics

• Add materials to the Classwork page
• Create an assignment
• Create a quiz assignment
• Create a question

Do more

• Create a rubric for an assignment
• Turn on originality reports
• Tips for using Forms with Classroom

Do the basics

• Set up marking
• Give feedback on assignments
• Mark and return an assignment
• Mark and return question answers

Do more

• Mark with a rubric
• View an originality report
• Mark quizzes with Google Forms

Manage accounts

• About Classroom user accounts
• Sign in to multiple accounts at once
• Limits when using Classroom

Manage settings and notifications

• Manage class details and settings
• Turn notifications on or off

Manage classes

• Use the calendars as a teacher
• Archive or delete a class
• Copy a class

Common tasks on the Home page

• Create a class
• Join or leave a class as a co-teacher
• Reorder your class cards
• Use the calendars as a teacher
• Turn notifications on or off

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.

2. On a class card, click the class name.
   You're now in the class, on the Stream page.

Overview of the Stream page

Along with posting announcements, you can also:

• View your video meeting link.
• View your class code.
• Open class settings .

Common tasks on the Stream page

• Post announcements to your students
• Set student permissions to post and comment
• Manage class details and settings
• Start a video meeting
• Set up marking

On the Classwork page, you can create and post classwork and materials for your students. You can organise your posts under topics that you create.

To open the Classwork page for a class:

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.

2. On a class card, click the class name.
3. At the top, click Classwork.

Overview of the Classwork page

Classwork includes assignments, questions and quiz assignments. After you publish a post, students can click it to begin their work. On each post, teachers can see a student's work status, such as Handed in or Missing.

On the Classwork page, you can also:

• Open your Google Drive folder.
• Open your Google Calendar.
• Start a video meeting.

Common tasks on the Classwork page

• Add topics to the Classwork page
• Create an assignment
• Create a quiz assignment
• Create a question
• Add materials
• Mark and return an assignment

On the People page, you can see everyone in the class, send emails and invite people to join the class. Think of the People page as your class register.

To open the People page for a class:

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.

2. On a class card, click the class name.
3. At the top, click People.

Overview of the People page

Under Teachers, you'll see all the teachers in the class. Under Students, you'll see all the students in the class. If you send email invites, you'll see Invited next to people's names until they join the class.

On the People page, you can also:

• Email students, guardians or co-teachers.
  Note: Guardians can't access Classroom. However, you can send guardians automated updates called guardian summaries.
• Mute students so that they can't post or comment.
• Remove people from the class.

Common tasks on the People page

• Invite co-teachers to your class
• Invite students to your class

On the Marks page, you can view, enter and return marks. Only teachers have the Marks page. The Marks page is also known as your student record.

To open the Marks page for a class:

1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign in.

   Sign in with your Google Account. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. Learn more.

2. Choose an option:
   • On a class card, click Open student record .
   • On a class card, click the class name at the top and click Marks.

Overview of the Marks page

Along with viewing, entering and returning marks, you can also open student submissions from the Marks page.

When you enter marks in other areas of Classroom, such as the marking tool, the marks automatically update to the Marks page.

Common tasks for the Marks page

• View or update your student record
• Mark and return an assignment
• Mark and return question answers
• Give feedback on assignments
• Download marks
• Set up marking