Organizing Content Using Topics

Google Classroom content can be organized using Topics, which you can use to classify content by subject, theme, or timeline. When organizing the learning journey of your students, we suggest that you take a look at your syllabus. This will help you envision one way of how your learning materials should be divided.

Topics allow us to organize content, allowing course materials to be segmented into the topics of your choice. Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to the Classwork page.

2. Press the Create button. A popup will appear.

3. From the popup, press the Topic button. Another popup will appear prompting you to type a title for your Topic.

4. Enter the title then click Add. The popup will close and Classroom will create a new topic with that new title.

5. From there, you can add individual course content into the Topic you created.

Scheduling the release of Course Content

Google Classroom allows you to schedule how your content will be released. This gives you the freedom to plan and prepare the Classroom ahead of time following your class calendar by letting Google Classroom do all the background work and freeing up your time to focus on personalized instruction. You can apply this to any of the Course Content types (Assignment, Quiz assignment, Question, and Material). Here’s how to do it:

1. Press the Create button and select any type of course content you want to upload.

2. Once you’ve set up the material, you can schedule the post by pressing the down arrow button on the upper right.

3. Press the Schedule button. A popup will appear prompting you to set a date and time to release.

4. Select the date and time you want to release the content, and then press the Schedule button. The content will be posted on the date and time you selected.

Scheduling Google Meet sessions

From time to time, teachers have to meet with their students using a virtual classroom, a platform where you can conduct synchronous activities similar to those you do during face to face classes. In virtual classrooms, you can share learning materials and have discussions real-time. Students can also present their work and conduct activities themselves. To add more excitement and delight to your classes, you can even be creative and incorporate games during the session!

This is all possible through Google Meet which is now integrated into Google Classroom.

For each Google Classroom you manage, you can generate a unique Google Meet link for the students in that Classroom. That link can be reused over and over again. Your students can easily bookmark that link for your particular class. You can also display it on the Stream page and the Classwork page for accessibility. Your students can join the Meet once you initiate it.

Here’s how you can set up Meet in your Classroom:

1. Log in to your Google Classroom account and access the class you wish to have a Google Meet session.

2. Click the setting icon on the upper right corner of your screen to access.

3. Scroll down and find the General Section.

4. Look for Google Meet and click the Generate Meet Link button. Google Classroom will automatically generate the unique link. By default, this link is visible at the Stream, right below the class code. Also, a Meet shortcut will appear in Classwork. If you want to hide it first, just toggle the visibility option.

6. Click Save at the top of the page.