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35 Fantastic Free Google Slides Templates and Themes for Teachers

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Google Slides is free, easy to use, and offers so many cool options. These free Google Slides templates for teachers give you endless ways to use this essential tool in your classroom. Choose a few to customize now!

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First Day of School

This bundle of free Google Slides templates for teachers is perfect for the first day of school. It even includes an icebreaker students will love.

Get it: First Day of School Google Slides Templates

Daily Agenda

Use this template as a daily lesson planner, then share it with kids and parents. It makes it easy for students who miss class to catch up.

Get it: Daily Agenda Planner at TPT

These slides are customizable, so you can focus on specific skills and differentiate for various learning levels. Smart!

Get it: Math Mats at Fun Learning for Kids

Sight World Builder

These slides have audio built in, so they’re perfect for kids to complete on their own. They hear the word, then choose the right letters to spell it out.

Get it: Sight Words Builder at Mrs. Winter’s Bliss ADVERTISEMENT

Digital Reading Log

Make it simple and fun for kids to keep track of their daily reading time. Each clickable tab in the book provides space for day after day of reading logs.

Get it: Digital Reading Log on TPT

Hamburger Paragraph

Using the hamburger method to teach paragraph or essay writing? Try this editable template to give students a place to practice.

Get it: Hamburger Paragraph at TPT

Missing Number Game

Challenge kids to use their higher thinking skills with these missing-number puzzles. There are 10 of them in the free set, perfect for bell ringers or early finishers.

Get it: Missing Number Game via Math Geek Mama

Planets Research Guide

This template has a slide for every planet, making it effortless for students to complete individual or group research on the solar system.

Get it: Planets Research Guide on TPT

Secret Sight Words

Kids will really enjoy this activity, and teachers will love that it incorporates multiple skills. First, kids identify the beginning letter of each word. Then they type it into the box, spelling out a sight word.

Get it: Secret Sight Words on TPT

Newspaper Theme

Extra, extra, read all about it! Whatever today’s teaching topic is, it’s sure to be headline news with this fun template theme.

Get it: Newspaper Theme via SlidesMania

Happy Birthday

Celebrate classroom birthdays the easy way. This template set offers several different options to customize with student names as needed.

Get it: Happy Birthday on TPT

Interactive Jeopardy!

Turn test review into a fun competition. This interactive template is fully customizable; just add your questions and answers.

Get it: Interactive Jeopardy! at Slides Carnival

Desktop Organizer Calendar

Use these monthly organizers to link to other projects, slideshows, documents, and more. It’s a great place to start class each day.

Get it: Desktop Organizer Calendar at SlidesMania

Alphabet Order Game

This Google Slides game is ready to go! Use the five increasingly challenging drag-and-drop levels with your whole class, or assign it as station work.

Get it: Alphabet Order Game at TPT

Galaxy Theme

These Google Slides templates are perfect for a unit on space. (You might even say they’re out of this world!)

Get it: Galaxy Theme at Slides Carnival

Bulletin Board Theme

Use this theme to create presentations or for an interactive classroom bulletin board with links to flyers, events, and more.

Get it: Bulletin Board Theme at SlidesMania

Breakout Room Note Taker

Virtual breakout rooms have a lot of uses in the classroom. Have your students use these Google Slides templates to record their discussions.

Get it: Breakout Room Note Taker at Hello Teacher Lady

Who’s Who? Game

These free Google Slides templates for teachers have activities like a match-up game and crossword puzzles built right in.

Get it: Who’s Who Game at SlidesGo

Camping Theme Virtual Classroom

Going with a camping theme in your classroom this year? This free camping theme has multiple slides to customize.

Get it: Camping-Theme Virtual Classroom at TPT

Farm Animals

Use these farm animal Google Slides templates to create interactive math or spelling activities for young learners.

Get it: Farm Animals at SlidesMania

Vocabulary Four Square

Customize these simple interactive Frayer Model templates with the vocabulary words your students are studying. Then use it for group work or a homework assignment.

Get it: Vocabulary Four Square at TPT

Investigation Game

Transform an ordinary lesson into an investigation! This would be a cool way to teach kids about primary sources .

Get it: Investigation Game at SlidesGo

Digital Notebook

These slides are a fun interactive way for kids to keep track of notes, research, and more.

Get it: Digital Notebook at SlidesMania

Classroom Assignment Slides

This planner makes a teacher’s life easier. The slides give students one place to access all their assignments, whether group or individual.

Get it: Classroom Assignment Slides at TPT

Studying Organizer

Give your students a leg up on their classwork with this free Google Slides template study organizer.

Get it: Studying Organizer at SlidesGo

Dinosaur Theme

Introducing little ones to prehistoric times? Try these free Google Slides templates for teachers!

Get it: Dinosaur Theme at Slides Carnival

Digital Board Game

Customize this board game template to use for a fun review activity in pretty much any subject.

Get it: Digital Board Game at SlidesMania

Vintage Geography Theme

Calling all geography teachers! These slides are just for you.

Get it: Vintage Geography Theme at Slides Carnival

Elementary School Weekly Planner

Help students develop good study habits and learn to organize their time with these cheery slide templates.

Get it: Elementary School Weekly Planner at SlidesGo

Virtual Job Fair

Need a fun way to hold virtual career day? Set up these slides with photos, videos, and info about a variety of jobs for kids to explore.

Get it: Virtual Job Fair at TPT

Letter-Writing Slides

Teaching a unit on letter writing? These slides have the perfect theme.

Get it: Letter-Writing Slides at SlidesMania

Spelling Choice Boards

This template is ready to use, with its missing-letter games and other spelling activities. You can also customize it to fit your needs.

Get it: Spelling Choice Boards at SlidesGo

Interactive File Cabinets

This is a smart way to organize digital documents and materials for your classroom. Assign each class or subject a drawer, then use the tabs to link to documents and other files.

Get it: Interactive File Cabinets at SlidesGo

29. Harry Potter Theme

It’s not magic, though it might seem like it to muggles! These Google Slides templates are sure to enchant your students.

Get it: Harry Potter Theme Template at SlidesMania

Google Search Theme

Design a presentation inspired by a Google search with these clever templates!

Get it: Google Search Theme at SlidesMania

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30+ Ready-to-use lesson activities that will spice up your Google Classroom

You can do so many things to spice up your teaching when you’re a Google Classroom teacher. But, most of the time, we all return to the safe lesson where nothing can go wrong.

Today you’ll learn how to create safe lessons in Google Classroom. And nobody said they can’t be fun too! We’re going to spice things up! And the best is yet to come: you can use these lesson ideas for free and share them with students in your Google Classroom! Cue… confetti! 🎉

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Spice up your Google Classroom with the BookWidgets add-on

30+ ready-to-use lessons for in your google classroom, the endgame: live monitoring, auto-grading, and feedback in google classroom.

If you want to skip a part, just click the title you want to check out, but remember: I’m explaining everything for a reason. 😉

Every digital lesson idea you’ll find in this post is created in Google Classroom with BookWidgets . There’s more. You can also monitor the activities live when students are working on them, review the work and give comprehensive feedback.

There are two ways to get started:

1. With the BookWidgets add-on

⚠️ Only for schools with a Teaching and Learning upgrade or Google for Education Plus account.

You can attach BookWidgets content to your assignments using this newest addition in Google Classroom. Go to Google Classroom, create a new assignment, choose the BookWidgets add-on, and you can start creating digital exercises and evaluations right there!

Learn everything about the add-on in this free 1-hour webinar . Register now and take your chance to win BookWidgets for your entire school!

Check out this tutorial or this short video on getting started with the BookWidgets add-on in Google Classroom. Then, reach out to [email protected] so we can enable it for your entire school.

2. With the BookWidgets Chrome extension

⚠️ If you’re using the free Google Classroom version, the BookWidgets Google Classroom extension is the right way to go.

Download the Chrome extension , open your Google Classroom and go to Classwork. Now, hit the “ Create ” button and choose BookWidgets.

Here’s a step-by-step tutorial and webinar for beginners to get you started.

I’ve divided these free Google Classroom lessons or activities into 10 categories so you can find what you need in one click. Remember, you can use them for free make a duplicate. I explained how you can do this here .

• Ready-to-use ice breaker activities and classroom energizers

Ready-to-use lessons to explain and introduce classroom rules

Ready-to-use lessons to start a lesson in a creative way, ready-to-use lessons to end a lesson in a creative way, ready-to-use lessons for students to ask for help, ready-to-use lessons for student self-assessments, ready-to-use lessons for creative book reports, ready-to-use lessons about special days in the year, ready-to-use lessons with rich media: tiktok, short films, and podcasts, ready-to-use lessons featuring emojis.

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Ready-to-use icebreaker activities and energizers

Use the following free lesson plans in Google Classroom to spice up a dull moment or to get to know each other better. If you can create a good team spirit and classroom where all students know each other on a deeper level, they will be more motivated to learn.

1. The Icebreaker Bingo

When you share this digital back-to-school bingo activity OR fun energizer with your students in Google Classroom, every student will get their own scrambled bingo sheet. Then, you only have to stand in front of the classroom and shout, “I’m looking for students who…have brown hair”.

All students who, for example, have brown hair can stand up and immediately tick off that box on their bingo sheet. Pro tip: ask those students standing up to tell a bit more. That way, everyone gets to know each other better.

Another way to use this digital bingo sheet is to have your students walk around and look for another student that fits the box. When they find that student, they introduce each other and have a small chat. Then, the student returns to his place to tick off the box.

2. Icebreaker questions

If you’re out of creative questions to ask your students, this icebreaker activity for high school students is the solution. It was created and brought to our attention by Guido Merry , a teacher in the Netherlands.

There are two ways to play this question icebreaker game:

Project the question wheels on a large screen in your classroom and ask a student to come forward and spin the wheels. The first question is always for the teacher. The second question is for the student in front of the classroom and the last question is for another student. The student in front of the classroom, can name a fellow student. In turn, that student must answer the question and come forward to spin the wheel. Just continue like this. The game ends when every student has answered 2 questions.

Divide your students into groups of 5. Let them take turns spinning the wheels. Each student has to answer all three questions in their spin-turn.

3. The Facebook profile

The good thing about social media channels is that you have to make a profile and fill it out with information about yourself. It triggers students to think about who they are and how they want to present themselves.

So… it’s a perfect first day of school activity. Below, you’ll find a digital (fake) Facebook profile form your students have to fill out. When they’ve submitted all the forms to you, you pick out a few profiles anonymously and read their likes, intro, or interests out loud. Then, other students have to guess to which student the Facebook profile belongs.

Pro Tip: You can also use this as an ESL lesson and let students practice writing.

4. Two Truths, One lie

A fun classic. This will get your students to know each other on a deeper level. It’s a lesson activity you can use on the first day of school and when a dull moment hits as a classroom energizer.

All your students submit 2 truths and 1 lie to you, and you turn it into a fun game! You can read the truths and lie out loud in front of your class, without telling who it’s from AND without revealing what the lie is. Your students will have to guess the name of the student, and they will have to guess the lie. Then, that student may tell them if they guessed correctly and elaborate on his or her story.

5. The M&M game

When there’s candy involved, students are suddenly all ears.

This free activity will help your students get to know each other in a group, playing a fun game. They have to pick an m&m and complete a challenge or answer a question in order to be allowed to eat the m&m.

Just share the game with your students in Google Classroom. Each group just needs 1 computer or tablet for the game board. Make sure to go over the rules before they get started.

When you want to introduce your classroom rules, or maybe re-introduce them if needed, you can do this in a fun way or in a way where students have a say about your rules too. Go check out a few ready-to-use lesson ideas on explaining classroom rules. There are more free lessons in this blog post about classroom rules .

6. Emoji rules

This pair-matching game about your classroom rules is perfect for younger learners. Using emojis will help mediate meaning. Students have to find the classroom rule and pair it with the right symbol, or in this case, emoji.

7. Collaborate on classroom rules

Ask your students to fill in this form to get a clear view of the rules that students find important. Giving them a choice means that they will be more willing to obey your classroom rules. In Google Classroom, you can always attach the final version of your rules to this assignment afterward. A final version can be something like this digital classroom poster explaining the rules .

8. Classroom rules checklist

Here’s another way to give students a voice when it comes to introducing your classroom rules. List your classroom rules in a checklist and let students check the boxes. You can review their answers and discuss the rules that students indicated they didn’t understand or they didn’t agree with. Go check out the lesson plan below, adapt it with your rules, and share it on Google Classroom. 👇

9. Classroom rules memes

This is the one I’m using every year again, and my students love it! I teach older students, so I need to keep my cool when introducing my classroom rules. As my students are basically adults, they should know what is allowed and what is not, but they also need to know what I find respectful behavior without distancing me from them too much.

Go check out this fun carousel with memes. Click on the dots on the images to get a better explanation.

Use the next lesson plans to start a lesson in a fun way or to introduce a new concept. Ask your students to go to Google Classroom at the start of the lesson, fill it out, and submit the lesson. The activities below vary from digital whiteboard lessons to interactive worksheets.

10. (Fore)knowledge hashtags

When you start a new lesson or teach a new concept, ask your students about the topic before explaining it. This way, they activate possible foreknowledge and you can see what your students already know.

11. Change the world

Ready for a fun writing exercise at the start of your lesson? You can also use the next lesson to start a conversation. Or use it as a good lesson starter to make the jump to your next big topic: SDGs! Pick out a few of your students’ answers that fit the transition to your lesson topic.

Share this digital worksheet with your students in Google Classroom, and they can start writing. When finished, they hit the “submit” button so you can gather their responses.

12. Sunshine & sunbeams

Share this digital whiteboard lesson in your Google Classroom when you’re introducing a new topic. On your blackboard, draw a big sun, with the new subject in the middle of the sun. Ask your students to write down what they already know about the new topic on their digital whiteboard. When finished, ask some students to come to the whiteboard in the front of your classroom and note one word that they have on their whiteboard.

Go check it out. Students can use different tools in the bar below to complete their whiteboard.

Go out with a BANG 💥 … or a fun exit ticket or exit slip. Exit tickets are quick activities at the end of your lesson. Most of the time, you check your students’ understanding of the lesson they just got. It also helps them summarize and remember better. Here’s a post with 60 digital exit tickets . I’ve listed a few of them below.

13. Popcorn exit ticket

Share this digital exit ticket worksheet with your students in Google Classroom at the end of your lesson. Ask your student to write down words that they learned today or that connect to today’s lesson topic. When they submit their work, you have everything together in the reporting dashboard and can check if some students didn’t write down much. Make sure to give extra instructions to those students. Remember: it’s a formative lesson activity - no grades!

14. Exit in 3, 2, 1

Trigger your students to think about the lesson they just got. Let them name 3 things they just learned, 2 things they want to learn more about and 1 question for the teacher about the lesson. It’s a good way to rehearse and see if there are more questions.

15. Three times different

In this exit slip, students have to explain the lesson in three different ways. They have to write a summary, draw the lesson, and give an example. Students can use the whiteboard tools in the bar below. They can use the types tool, drawing tool, and they can even add an image by clicking on the photo icon. This tool is perfect for when your students want to make a drawing on paper and upload it to your digital whiteboard.

Go check out this free lesson plan below 👇

“ Are there any questions? ” If you’re a teacher for a long time already, you know that no student will ever answer this question. 🤦‍♀️ Check out the next ideas that will prompt your students to ask questions or ask for help.

16. 3 stars and 1 wish

This is the perfect example of an exit ticket and a way for students to ask for help combined in one lesson activity. Students indicate what they understand perfectley after your lesson, and they also get the chance to ask for help in their “wish”.

Click the example below to take a look. As it’s a digital worksheet, students can add their answers using their keyboard.

17. Mood meter

This mood meter activity for primary school students is the perfect lesson starter. It’s a subtle way to know what is happening in your student’s minds. As you know, it’s not always easy to have an understanding of what is going on. So use this lesson once in a while. Students can talk about their fun weekend, holiday, and evening. And sometimes, the meter will alert you to open up a conversation with students that are not feeling well. There are also students that will indicate that they don’t understand your lesson and need help.

18. Traffic light

This interactive whiteboard activity offers students a creative way to ask for help. They color the traffic light and explain their choice. Students send their answers to you in Google Classroom, and you can check immediately which students need help. In the next lesson, you gather all students that indicated a red traffic light and give them instructions again.

You don’t always have time to give personalized feedback. One way to go around this is by letting your students assess themselves. You’ll also see that students are often more critical about their work than you are…

19. Self-assessment rubric

One of my favorite question types in the BookWidgets quiz or (split) worksheet widget is the rubric question type. I know you can create rubrics in Google Classroom too, but these rubrics can be part of your students’ assignments, and they can be used as a self-assessment tool.

In the lesson example below, students have to assess themselves on the task or project they just completed. You can see all the results in your reporting dashboard in Google Classroom. Here, you can indicate whether you agree with the students or not, by filling out the rubric too. Return your feedback without grades (or with grades - that’s possible too).

Click here to learn more about creating digital rubrics .

20. Emoji self-assessment

A fun and quick way to check metacognition is by letting them complete a self-assessment form… with emojis! And you can immediately see which students need more help on which learning goals. Ask your students to fill it out after a task, project, or homework about the topic.

Ask your students to go back to the worksheet in Google Classroom just before a test about the topic. Their answers will still be there. It will help them focus on the parts that are a bit challenging.

This is a resource students can use anytime before they submit their homework or a task. It will help them elevate their work to a higher level. And it’s fun!

Go check out how this SELFIE assessment works 👇

22. Tops and Tips

This is a very interesting self-evaluation for students and can also be used as a peer evaluation. After a presentation or task, students need to think about 3 tops - things that went great - and 2 tips - things they could do better next time -. Students can submit their self-assessments to the teacher, or they can download what they’ve filled out. They can also just leave their answer like that and come to Google Classroom again. Their answers will still be there.

The peer assessment goes like this. All your students open the assignmnet in Google Classroom and fill it out for the student that is presenting. Using the share button, students can send their tops and tips to the student (e-mail address). When that’s done, they delete their answers (dustbin button) and fill them out for the next student.

There are so many fun assignments to do when students have read a book. Think out of the box and get creative. Here are 15 digital book report activities . I listed my 3 favorite activities below. 👇

23. Letter to the author

Here, students have to write a friendly letter to the author. When shared in Google Classroom, they can easily submit their work to the teacher and share it by e-mail with the author (if they can find the fanmail address). So much fun!

24. Story timeline

In this creative book report lesson idea, students have to create a timeline of the story. When did what happen, chronologically? They have to add the biggest events in the story to the timeline.

25. Comic story

This fun whiteboard activity has the grid of a comic. Students can create a comic story out of their book and add drawings and text balloons.

There’s a special day in the year for about everything that exists on this planet! Go check out this awareness days folder in BookWidgets with fun, ready-to-use activities. Share them with your students to introduce the fun days in a creative way. It’s a work in progress! We’ll keep sharing new lesson activities about the awareness days every week!

26. April fools’ day around the world

Here’s a fun lesson about culture and traditions around the world. How can one fun day be so different? Let your students go through this frame sequence widget or project this lesson on the big screen and start a conversation.

27. World Honey Bee Day

Don’t worry, 🐝 happy! In this lesson activity about honey bees, your students will become excellent bee experts. They even get a certificate in the end! They will learn everything about the bee from scratch. Share this interactive worksheet with your students in Google Classroom, so they can open it and get started! Now, it’s your turn! 👇

28. Summer Solstice

How much do your students know about summer solstice? This ready-to-use lesson explains the concept very well. Students can go through this lesson that you’ve shared in Google Classroom step-by-step, and they will learn about summer solstice in an interactive way.

Integrating rich media like TikTok , film , and podcasts in your lesson will engage your students even more. Click on the links to find even more lesson plans and inspiration!

Use rich media in your lessons to introduce a new lesson topic, start a discussion or conversation, evaluate language skills, and much more!

29. Learning English with TikTok

I wanted to include this lesson that integrates the very popular TikTok app within a lesson about pronunciation. I hope it inspires you to broaden your mindset and think out of the box. Share this lesson in your Google Classroom, and students can start recording their voices. They can easily submit the answers to you so you can listen to their pronunciation and return feedback. Go check it out! 👇

30. Short film - Coin Operated

This amazing short film lesson - Coin operated - lets your students see “through” a film. They have to discover the meaning of the story and write it down. As it’s a short film without speech, you can still edit this lesson for another language. Just make sure to find the BookWidgets group folder here, duplicate the activity, edit the language and share it in your Google Classroom.

31. Learning science with a podcast

The poop collector episode of the “ Tumble Science Podcast ” is a fun episode you can use as a lesson starter for your science lesson. You can even start your first lesson with it, so students understand the word “ science ” better. Go check out the lesson activity below!

Emojis are basically a new way of communication. Everyone uses them to express feelings, to emphasize written words better, and even as a replacement for written words. As emoticons really tickle your students’ interests, it might be a fun idea to incorporate them into your lessons. Here are some of my favorite lesson plans using emoticons or emojis for all kinds of subject areas. 💪

32. Emoji introduction

This is a fun lesson starter for the first day of school. Ask your students to indicate their interests and other aspects of their life using the given emojis. Students can just drag and drop the emojis and send their answers to the teacher in Google Classroom. Later on, you can ask your students to explain the emojis they have chosen and tell a little bit more about themselves. Access the lesson plan preview below and try it out!

33. Emoji artwork

You’re absolutely going to love this ready-to-use lesson plan! Students have to spin the wheels and use the three emojis that come up to make a creative painting. They spin the wheels a second time as well. Now, they have to write a story! This lesson is all about inspiring students’ creativity and dreams. Bonus: you can immediately check their writing skills too. Go check it out! Which 3 emojis did you spin? 👇

34. Emoji sight words crossword

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, there’s another fun lesson plan. Use this digital crossword puzzle for teaching languages to young learners. When you duplicate this widget from the BookWidgets Blog group here and edit the activity in your account if you want to change the language. Now, it’s an English lesson. Can you complete it? 💡

35. Emoji exit ticket

Always go out with a bang! Last but not least: the exit ticket or exit slip widget. This activity takes you only 3 minutes to create, and it has so much value! At the end of a lesson, your students have to indicate whether they understood your lesson or how they are feeling. They have to do so by indicating an emoji. As a second part, you can ask your students another open-ended question. This can be a content question about the lesson, or you can ask students to write down any questions they still have.

How to share these activities on Google Classroom?

We’ve gathered all the free lesson plans in this BookWidgets Group . Click on the link. If you don’t have a BookWidgets account yet, it’s now time to create one for free. The best way is to sign up using your Google Single Sign-On - The Google Account you’re using in your Google Classroom .

You might get redirected to your BookWidgets account’s homepage once you’ve signed up. If so, just click on this group link again when you are signed into your account.

You will see a list with all the widgets ( a.k.a. activities created in BookWidgets ) in this post.

Now, follow the next steps:

• Click on the cogwheel icon,
• Choose “ Select all widgets ” (or just indicate the widgets or activities you want).
• Click on the cogwheel icon for a second time,
• Choose “ Duplicate selected widgets ”.
• A pop-up window opens. Click on the black arrow ⬅️ next to the title - two times - until you don’t see the arrow anymore. Now click on “My widgets” in the pop-up.
• Finally, choose “ Duplicate here ”.

All these widgets are now yours to adapt and share in Google Classroom with your students. Now is the time to go to your Google Classroom and open BookWidgets from there as I’ve described above - using the add-on or Chrome extension.

Once you’ve opened BookWidgets in Google Classroom, adapting and sharing these exercises or widgets is easy. Go to the “My widgets” folder. You’ve just duplicated everything here. Next to the activity - on the right - you will find a tiny arrow pointing down ⬇️. Click on it and choose “ Edit ”. The widget’s configuration screen opens. When you’re done editing, you can click “share” and choose a Google Classroom course.

When you’ve shared these lessons with your students in your Google Classroom, BookWidgets allows you to follow up on them. Reviewing a lesson activity created with BookWidgets can be done in two ways: via “Live Widgets” or/and within the reporting dashboard . Both possibilities are available from your Google Classroom account.

Live widgets

Monitor students, live, in Google Classroom when they are still working on your activity. You can immediately discover struggling students and give them a helping hand. You can also find students that need bigger challenges. And… when your students forget to submit, you can still push the button and submit for your students.

Even when it’s a fun practice exercise that students don’t have to submit, like flashcards, you can see if they did some practicing at home or in class. You can see Live Widgets activity for up to 30 days.

The reporting dashboard

When your students have submitted their work, you can start reviewing it. Most of the activities and question types within a quiz or (split) worksheet get auto-graded. This will save you so much time!

There are some important teacher features that will make reviewing student work much easier:

• You can grade student by student or question by question,
• You can still change the grade in auto-graded questions,
• You can add comments below questions and in your students’ answers,
• You can use a filter to already hide correct answers and focus on the ones that need your attention,
• You can use a filter that groups all student answers on one question that are precisely the same. Your feedback will go to all those students;
• You can configure the feedback that your group of students (or individual) students will see. With or without grades, with or without the correct answers, and more.

As you can see, there are lots of handy ways to review student work more efficiently in Google Classroom with the BookWidgets reporting dashboard.

That’s it! I can understand that your head is exploding 🤯 with new ideas right now!

Remember, you can duplicate all these Google Classroom lesson plans created with BookWidgets in this group . I explain how you can do this here . Duplicate them to your account so you can start editing and sharing them with your students in your Google Classroom. It’s very important that you do this and don’t use the link to the lesson . That way, your students’ answers can’t find their way to you.

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Lesson 2: creating assignments and materials.

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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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Create more interactive assignments with practice sets for Google Classroom, launching in beta soon

What’s changing.

We’re announcing a new tool for Google Classroom called practice sets, which enables educators to transform new and existing content into engaging and interactive assignments. With autograding built in, teachers can receive performance insights and snapshots into student progress and use those insights to help inform future lesson plans. 

If they get stuck and need support, students will see automated hints and video suggestions, along with real time feedback on their answers. Assignments can be completed with a variety of tools for annotation, such as a mouse, stylus, touchpad, or math keyboard depending on how students work best.

When available, the beta will be globally available (note: in English only) for Google Workspace for Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade. Education leaders can use this form to express interest in the beta .

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Why you’d use it , availability.

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Google Classroom Guide

This free resource is perfect for teachers and students who might be new to using Google Classroom.

The resource includes slides for the teacher with videos that show you how to set up your classroom, assign work, and check student work.

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If so, grab these free slides. You can edit the slides and add pictures to customize them for your class.

After you prepare the slides, you can share your screen during a Zoom or Google Meets call to run through the presentation for students and their families. You can also send the slides to families via email.

This is a great way to start building relationships and culture in the classroom.

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Opinion writing videos.

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Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. This handy tool has opened up the doors of blended learning and collaborative classrooms like never before. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google. Post updated: April 2, 2022

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Google Classroom and GSuite  Resources

The Google Classroom Bootcamp Due Demo that I recorded with Alice Keeler in March 2020 is an excellent overview of what the student and then the teacher side of Google Classroom look like. I highly suggest it if you're getting started with Google Classroom because it shows you both sides of assigning and submitting assignments.

Google Classroom Tutorials for Students and Parents – added 4/2/2022

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• How to Create a Google Doc to Go with An Assignment
• How to Make Sure You're Logged into Google Chrome Correctly
• How Parents Can Add Themselves as a Guardian
• How to Easily View Work

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Tutorials

• How to Use Google Sheets – A Basic tutorial
• Google Sheets Profit and Loss Statements

Google Classroom for Teachers

• How to Easily Close out the School Year in Google Classroom with Kasey Bell

Google Meet

• Google Meet Bandwidth Detector – 2022
• How to Use Google Meet for eLearning and online Learning – 2020 – Ditch that Textbook Matt Miller
• Create Google Meet Breakout Rooms in Advance -2021

TIP: The Keyword from Google has breaking announcements and information on Google Classroom. 

• @ GoogleforEDU on Twitter
• All of Alice Keeler's Google Classroom Blog Posts – She's really one of the experts and has separated it into beginner, intermediate and advanced.
• Kasey Bell's Google Classroom Resources at Shake Up Learning 
• Eric Curt's Blog posts at Control Alt Achieve – these are helpful, innovative ideas.
• 30 Collaborative Google Apps Activities for Schools by Matt Miller – 2020

Interviews with Experts and Classroom Educators

• How to Get the Most Out of Google Apps Now with Eric Curts – 2021
• How to Get the Most out of Google's Digital Skills Curriculum with Victor Hicks – 2021
• Google Jamboard with Tom Mullaney – 2021
• Choose Your Own Adventure Professional Development with Laurie Guyon 2021
• How to Program and Use App Scripts inside Google with Alice Keeler 2021
• What's Hot (And Not) inside Google with Alice Keeler – 2020
• 3 Add On's to Solve 1 Problem with Michael Backus 2019
• Google Jamboard   Intro 2018
• Kasey Bell's 8 Great Ways to Use Google Slides – 2018
• Google Masters for Kids of All Ages: Badges Skills and More with Lee Ann Yonker 
• Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard with Donnie Piercey 
• 10 Things Google Classroom Makes Easier – an Interview with Alice Keeler
• How to Use Google Keep in the Classroom with Crystal Koenig 
• Cheaters: Google Apps Edition – Eric Curts walks through plagiarism prevention techniques
• 12 Great Ways to Use Google Drive in Education with Susan Oxnevad
• 5 Ideas to Amp Up Chromebooks with John Sowash
• How a School Saved Half their Classroom Setup Costs with Google Classroom and iPads with Kyle Taylor
• Google Classroom: Top New Features to Learn Over the Summer with Alice Keeler
• How to Use Google Keep in the Classroom with Crystal Koenig
• 23 Gsuite Ideas to Excite Your Students about Learning with Eric Curts

Tools to Help You Work with Google Classroom

Kasey Bell has a “ Getting Started with Google Classroom ” courses which are what I've taken. 2022

• A Google Classroom Symbaloo – Share this one with teachers who are getting started. They can make it their startup screen and test one thing a day.
• Google Apps/ GAFE Tutorials for Teachers – a massive site full of tutorials. Use and email these out as you have specific tasks for teachers to learn. For beginners
• Shake Up Learning Has some great resources like their Guide to Google Classroom Comments: All You Need to Know and How to Insert Super Cool Gifs into Presentations and Docs  –
• Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walkthroughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms
• Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments
• Doctopus helps with management – while it does some things Google Classroom does, there are other features it manages too.
• There's also a Goobric web app launcher for Chrome.
• Use this Graphic for Students Turning in Work
• 10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad
• Google Classroom: Using the Rubric Tab to Assess Students
• Alice Keeler's Google Classroom Feedback Workflow
• Google Classroom and GeoGebra
• 60 Ways Math Teachers Can Use Google Classroom  by Alice Keeler
• gMath for Forms – add math symbols to Google Forms
• 5 Ways Students Can Use Google Docs in Math
• gMath for Sheets – Lets you add formulas to Google Sheets
• Mathematical Equations – Up to Date Information from Google on using equations
• Google Classroom Part I – How 7th grade math teacher Sherrie Nackel organizes her files and assignments

Literature and Composition

• Voice Typing and Other Tools to Use with Google Docs
• Google Classroom: Using a Writing Journal
• 15 Best Google Drive Add-Ons for Education
• 5 Ways to Make Professional Looking Google Documents
• How to Add Google Drive to Microsoft Word
• How to Make Google Chrome Faster, Better and Prettier
• Helpful Google Search Modifiers Poster
• Google Docs Research Tool Removes the Drudgery from Presentations
• Google Research Tool by Tammy Worcester Tang
• Google Classroom Add-on for Chrome  For beginners
• Google Lesson Plan Tool for Docs –
• Classroom Mobile App for Android and iOS
• Edusync app for Google Calendars
• Google Chrome Desktop Plugin lets you access another person's Chromebook or Chrome browser from your teacher computer (or vice versa)
• Share to Classroom lets you push web pages to your student browsers instantly. Helps get everyone on the same page quickly
• How to Add Google Drawings Comic Strips to Your Class with Matt Miller and Cori Orlando added 12/24/17
• 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller  For beginners
• 50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student Centered Approach by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller
• Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis – my book on Collaborative Writing
• The Chromebook Classroom by John Sowash

Google Classroom Research and White Papers

Brown, M. E., & Hocutt, D. L. (2015). Learning to use, useful for learning: a usability study of Google apps for education . Journal of Usability Studies , 10 (4), 160-181.

Dotson, K. B., & Clark, C. (2015). Together we can… Knowledge Quest , 44 (2), 8.

Izenstark, A., & Leahy, K. L. (2015). Google Classroom for Librarians: Features and Opportunities . Library Hi Tech News , 32 (9), 1-3.

Johnson, C. H., Linahan, M., Cuba, A. F., Dickmann, S. R., Hogan, E. B., Karos, D. N., … & Ropinski, B. L. (2016, January). Google Classroom and Open Clusters: An Authentic Science Research Project for High School Students . In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 227).

Kelly, L. B. (2015). ” You Can't Just Write an Essay in an Hour”: Supporting Middle Schoolers' Peer Feedback and Revision Process through Online Writing Groups . Voices From the Middle , 23 (2), 81.

Phiri, L., Meinel, C., & Suleman, H. (2016). Streamlined Orchestration: An Orchestration Workbench Framework for Effective Teaching . Computers & Education .

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Google classroom hashtags.

• # gafechat is the first and third Tuesday of each month 8-9 pm CST
• # gafesummit – This is run by Edtechteam.com but many people share resources to this hashtag

Google Classroom Pinterest Boards

• Resources on Pinterest relating to Google Classroom https://www.pinterest.com/explore/google-classroom/
• Shake Up Learning has 155 guides and tutorials on Google Classroom:    https://www.pinterest.com/ShakeUpLearning/google-classroom/
• Dianne Miller's Pinterest Board  https://www.pinterest.com/1dimiller/google-classroom/
• Resources on Pinterest about Google Docs   https://www.pinterest.com/explore/google-docs/
• Nadine Trinchero has 160+ resources on her Pinterest Board   https://www.pinterest.com/ntrinchero/google-docs-in-the-classroom/
• Shake Up Learning has another board with lots of resources:  https://www.pinterest.com/ShakeUpLearning/all-things-google/

Accounts Who Share About Google Classroom on Twitter

This is hard because there are so many who tweet about #gafe , but here a few.

• @ GoogleforEdu  – The official handle for everything Google in education
• @ GAFEAcademy – the Google Apps for Education Academy
• @ EdTechTeam – They do a lot of training classes for Google Apps
• @ thegooglegooru – Has lots of tips for using Google
• @ alicekeeler  – She's an expert.
• @ ericcurts – His Control Alt Achieve Blog is so helpful!
• Download the Gooru's Classroom Cards – you could print and share these at a staff meeting  For beginners

80+ Google Classroom Tutorials from Richard Byrne

For beginners – a great playlist. Just click on the list and pick the video you need. Richard Byrne is someone I highly recommend!

Control Alt Achieve Playlist by Eric Curts

He has so many ideas for using Gsuite in the classroom, you'll love this playlist! Scroll through the 22 videos and learn! added 7/25/17

2017 Updated Guide to Google Classroom

Added 7/25/17

50 Ways to Use Google Classroom

This video made by Jeffrey Bradbury and Alice Keeler is a fantastic hands-on entry into Google Classroom. added 7/25/17

Convert an Image to an Editable Doc

Google Docs in the Math Classroom by Daniel Kaufman

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This is an excellent consolidation of the many things that Google Classroom and GAFE can do! Thank you for finding the best of the best and categorizing them so clearly. I especially appreciate your section on how to use GAFE for math; I so often hear math teachers telling me that they just can’t use the Google Apps in their classrooms! The videos are an especially effective tool to help familiarize newbies to all the wonders that GAFE can do. Again, thank you for such a comprehensive post.

So glad it is helpful Reggie!

Great list of resources! I’ve shared it in my Google Classroom class for staff! There have been a few early adopters in the building that I’m encouraging and more get on board in two’s and three’s.

Good luck, Chris! I’m so glad it is helpful!

Lots of great stuff here. Here’s another one that isn’t Classroom-specific but rather a list of tools matched to tasks you’d like to carry out on a Chromebook.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pDsGwn7_Z38AYrvOtqqHbX_osrxxKIUpV1kRDiPL7bc/edit#heading=h.4c6x4p5qplh7

Thanks Peter!

A great resource site!!

What a comprehensive site! I have already looked a few of the links. It is going to take me a few visits to see all that I want to. I especially like “A Google Classroom Symbaloo.” I plan to many of GAFE. Having them organized like that makes it much easier to systemically try those that are applicable and interesting to me.

Wonderful list of #GAFE resources, Vicki! I started using Google Classroom with my Grades 6-8 science classes, and we love it. I’m finding so many creative and time efficient ways to use it. I’d like to see how other teachers are using the Google Apps and Google Classroom in science.

Awesome! Maybe some will reply! Also reach out to Alice Keeler as she is super in touch with the gafe community!

Vicki, Thanks for this. I know you posted this a while back but you’ve convinced me to give Google Classroom another shot.

This is an epic roundup post!

Thanks Mark!

Wow!! Thank you so much!

I found this to be very helpful. This resource really helped me understand how Google suite can affect the way we teach. Math teachers commonly claim that Google does not work well for them in their classroom. Thanks

I love Google Classroom and I love that you have collect so much information about how to use them for educators! Thank you!!

I really enjoyed reading this blog. It shared a bunch of great resources that I will be able to use in the future to make a classroom a better learning experience for the students.

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How to assign student work with google classroom.

Here’s an easy step-by-step guide for teachers about how to assign work to students using Google Classroom for digital classroom lessons and remote teaching.

Google Classroom is user-friendly, but anything new can be confusing for teachers who aren’t tech-savvy.

Here’s a quick, easy-to-follow guide for assigning student work with Google Classroom . You can do this!

Go ahead and open Google Classroom and create your class. Give your classes names like “Period 1” or “Morning ELA” so you can quickly identify the class you want.

1) Your class’s unique code is identified here. You’ll need that code when adding students to your class. You can add students directly or give the code to students, and they can join the class.

Click Classwork .

2) Click Create, then click on the dropdown menu and choose Assignment .

3) Give your new assignment a title, and then you choose to add instructions to your students, points, due date, an optional rubric, and choose to which students you want the work assigned.

4) Click the ADD tab, and you can attach a Google Drive assignment, link to a website, add a file (such as a PDF, Word, or PowerPoint document), or attach a YouTube video for students to watch.

5) Find the file you want to share with your students and double-click on it. That will bring up a box with a dropdown menu.

6) IMPORTANT : On the dropdown menu, choose Make a copy for each student .

You want to make sure each student receives their own copy of the file, so your original file won’t be shared and changed when they begin to interact with it! Ultimately, you want students to make changes on their own individual copies.

7) Next, you should double-check the points, due date, and other details to make sure you didn’t forget to add anything important.

8) Click the Assign button.

*You can also choose the down arrow by Assign and choose the Schedule option if you’d like to select a future date. A calendar will open up, and you can choose the date and the time you want the assignment posted.

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How to schedule assignments or assign material

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Add materials

• Go to  Google Classsroom .
• Click the class >  Classwork .
• At the top, click  Create  >  Material .
• Enter a title and a description.

Schedule materials

• To schedule the same material across multiple classes, make sure to select all classes you want to include.
• Next to  Post , click the Down arrow  Schedule .
• When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to PM unless you specify AM.
• (Optional) Select a topic for each class.
• (Optional) To replicate your selected time and date for the first class into all subsequent classes, click  Copy settings to all . 
• Click  Schedule . The material will automatically post at the scheduled date and time.

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You can group assignments, quiz assignments, questions, and class materials under topics. If you don’t assign a topic, the post shows at the top of the Classwork page. You can reorder the posts under a topic and rearrange topics to follow your curriculum. Students only see topics that have published posts.

Create a topic

Go to classroom.google.com  and click Sign In.

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

• Enter the topic name and click Add .

Add a topic to assignments, quiz assignments, or questions

You can add only one topic to an assignment, quiz assignment, or question. If an assignment is posted to several classes, editing the assignment in one class doesn't update it in the other classes.

• To create a topic, click Create topic and enter a topic name.
• Click  Save .

Add a topic to class materials

You can add only one topic per post. For details on creating class materials, go to  Add materials to the Classwork page .

Filter by topic 

• In a class, click Classwork .
• To see all your posts for a topic, at the left, click a topic name.
• To return to all your topics, at the left, click All topics .

Reorder topics

  If you’re using a mobile device, click Android or iPhone & iPad above for instructions. 

When you move a topic, all its content also moves. Only teachers can reorder topics.   

• If it's not already selected, on the left, click  All topics .

Reorder posts under a topic

  If you’re using a mobile device, click Android or iPhone & iPad above for instructions.  

You can change the order of assignments, materials, and other work under the same topic. Only teachers can reorder the posts under a topic. 

Rename a topic

• Enter a new name and click Rename .

Delete a topic

Deleting a topic doesn’t delete the posts under it. Posts move to the top of the list on the Classwork page.

• Click  Delete  to confirm.

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