Learning In The Loo: Google Classroom End of Year Cleanup

I wanted my last edition of the year to help teachers organise / clean up their Google Classroom. I went looking for what images were already out there on the interwebs & found this great infographic from Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook :

I added some screenshots from my own Google Classroom & Calendar to help illustrate some of the items listed and included a QR code back to Matt’s original post which has more details about each of the tips on the list.

Are there any Google Classroom end of year tips you think are important that we missed here? Leave a comment below!

– Laura Wheeler (Teacher @ Ridgemont High School, OCDSB; Ottawa, ON)

Google Classroom’s Plagiarism Checker – Originality Reports #LearningInTheLoo

For years I kept meaning to learn how to use Turn It In so that I could check for copy & pasted work from my students. But I never did get to that. But now Google Classroom has entered the plagiarism checker game. The tool is called Originality Reports and this week’s Learning in the Loo poster will help you get started with it. Melanie Zolnier has a great blog post on the topic, with images, that I turned into this week’s poster:

As always, all the past editions can be found here.

– Laura Wheeler (Teacher @ Ridgemont High School, OCDSB; Ottawa, ON)

Learning in the Loo: Google Classroom edition

Today I prepared the year’s first edition of Learning in the Loo for my school all about what’s new in Google Classroom this year. The topic was inspired by the most recent episode of the Google Teacher Tribe podcast (worth subscribing to if you’re into podcasts!).

– Laura Wheeler (Teacher @ Ridgemont High School, OCDSB; Ottawa, ON)