If you are using your district grade book, set Classroom to “no overall grade.”

Gradebook calculations – If you plan on using the gradebook, go ahead and set up your categories and grade weights.

This blog post has a detailed overview of the integration between Meet and Classroom. This is a great option for virtual office hours.

Google Meet – you can enable/disable your unique meeting room code from the settings page.

Guardian summaries – if you plan on sending progress reports you will want to enable guardian summaries for your class.

Classwork on stream – I use the stream page exclusively for announcements, so I choose to hide classwork notifications.You can mute individual students who abuse the commenting privilege. Class comment policy – in most cases, I allow my students to comment, but not to post.Step 2: Adjust your classroom settingsĪfter I create a class I head straight to the settings page to make a few standard adjustments: There are three key things I include when creating a new course.

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