Adding Material

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Adding Material to your Classroom

Once you have your topics completed you want to add things into them! You have a range of options open to you for this.

Go to CLASSWORK on the top menu
Go to + CREATE button. This provides a range of Options:
Setting Assignments
Setting Quiz Assignments
Asking a Question
Adding Material
Reusing a Post
Adding a Topic

WHY WOULD YOU ADD MATERIAL?

Adding material is one of the key things you can do in Google Classroom. I like to use it not simply as a collection of assignments to be completed but as a multi faceted learning tool through which the students should be able to look over the course they are covering, look back at what they have covered and look ahead to what they are going to cover. This really does flip the classroom and should allow them to be more independent learners. You can add a variety of material such as Weblinks, YouTube videos, e-guides or Presentations

HOW DO YOU ADD MATERIAL?

Go to CLASSWORK
Go to + CREATE
Go to Material
Add your Title
You can add a description if you want
Try to make sure you click the correct topic on the right hand side - this adds it to the right topic
Go to the bottom and find the ADD section - Click it and it will bring up your options
You can add material from your Google Drive cloud storage (Everything file you upload on the Classroom automatically saves it to this Google Classroom for you.
You can add a Weblink/s
You can add a File such as Word, Pdf, PowerPoint etc
You can add YouTube videos

Adding from Google Drive

Google Drive is Cloud based storage which is used to store your material and the students. It is particularly handy as it means you can access your material without your pen drives ; external hard drives etc. It is also very quick to use.

You have the ability to Add from recent uploads ; From your Google Drive or shared drives.

Adding a Weblink

Adding a Weblink is easy.

Simply go to Weblink
Find the website you want - Copy the URL (Web address) and Copy into the Google Classroom
Click Add Link

Adding a File

This is one of the most commonly used areas for material and allows you to upload your classroom materials directly to them. If they want to recheck a Presentation or if they miss a class this is superb for getting your material directly to them - providing 24/7 learning and allowing you to teach when you're not in the classroom.

Simply go to Add File
Select Files from your device
Find the File you need and Upload
This will be automatically uploaded to your Google Drive Account for later retrieval if needed.

TIP: You can upload lots of files at one time. Just use the Control button and highlight the ones you want OR hold your mouse and drag over the ones you require.
Click Upload to complete

SEE BELOW - Holding down the Control key allows you to choose multiple files to upload in one go.

SEE BELOW - Click the UPLOAD button to complete

Adding a YouTube Video

YouTube is frequently becoming an invaluable educational tool. This is a great way to pre-select great videos and upload them to your classroom

To do this:

Go to Add YouTube
You can SEARCH videos and choose the ones you wish (be careful with your selections dependent on class)
Find the YouTube clip you like - Copy the URL (Web address) and Paste
Click Add

FINALLY! DON'T FORGET!!! PRESS POST!

Once you have completed everything and are ready to go
SIMPLY GO TO THE TOP RIGHT HAND SIDE AND CLICK POST

TIP: If you click the arrow it will give you the ability to SCHEDULE Posts to go live at certain times