Chapter 2: Inviting Students to Their Virtual Classroom

It's the start of the term and your physical and Google Classrooms are set up and ready for students to enter, and for learning to commence. While students simply walk into your physical classroom, sometimes with a school map in hand, in your virtual classroom, students must join the classroom from a computer or mobile device. As we mentioned in the Preface, Google Classroom excels in classrooms where computers or mobile devices are readily available or in an online environment. Furthermore, students will use the tool more frequently if it can be accessed from their own personal devices.

Being the teacher, you may need to guide a class of students with different types of computers, tablets, and smart phones in installing and setting up Google Classroom. This chapter provides instructions for several different types of devices. We will explore the various methods of inviting students into a Google Classroom and managing...