Visit the Privacy & Security Center site for information on how Google complies with privacy and security requirements in education.
This concise two-page PDF outlines the G Suite for Education Privacy and Security information.
The layout includes:
Add content in the Classwork tab. Click +Create to add assignments and post material.
Use Topics to organize your content. Many instructors organize their online courses by date or week, i.e. Week 1, Week 2 - or August 23-25, August 30-September 3, et c...Create Topics with those labels (Week 1, Week 2) depending on how you want to organize your course. You can also create Topics labeled Slideshows or Project and put multiple documents, files, assignments under that Topic. Use any Topic you prefer.
Grading Categories: Set up Grading Categories by going under the gear icon on the upper right side of the screen within your online course. You can use weighted grading in Google Classroom. In Settings (accessed through the gear icon) scroll down to Grading and change Overall Grade Calculation to Weighted by Category, if you prefer weighted grading.
Files you can store in Google Drive:
File sizes
The following are the maximum file sizes you can store in Google Drive:
Documents
Up to 1.02 million characters.
If you convert a text document to Google Docs format, it can be up to 50 MB.
Spreadsheets
Up to 5 million cells or 18,278 columns (column ZZZ) for spreadsheets that are created in or converted to Google Sheets.
Presentations
Up to 100 MB for presentations converted to Google Slides.
Google Sites (new)
Up to 200,000 characters per page.
Up to 10,000 images per site.
Up to 1,000 pages (max 10 million characters).
All other files
Up to 5 TB.
Supported file types
Any file type can be stored in Drive. These are the most common file types you can preview in Google Drive:
General files
Archive files (.ZIP, .RAR, tar, gzip)
Audio formats (MP3, MPEG, WAV, .ogg, .opus)
Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .TIFF, .SVG)
Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS, .java, .py)
Text files (.TXT)
Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .ogg)
Adobe files
Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
Illustrator (.AI)
Photoshop (.PSD)
Portable Document Format (.PDF)
PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF) - best with RGB .TIFF images
TrueType (.TTF)
Microsoft files
Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
Password-protected Microsoft Office files
Apple files
Editor files (.key, .numbers)
Access these and other brief videos on getting started in Google Classroom through this link.
Grading TIP: The Classroom gradebook can be exported to CSV and converted to Excel, which allows for more involved sorting. Contact library staff for resources for beginner tips on Excel.
Help your students get to resources in Jannes Library!
Post our resource links in your class in Google Classroom. Just cut & paste these into a topic in your class:
Jannes Library Catalog: For books, eBooks, DVDs and more
https://kc-towers.searchmobius.org/search~S10
Accesss Resources online: For articles, images and more
https://kcai.libguides.com/resources
Access Subject Guides for every studio major!
https://kcai.libguides.com/index.php?b=g&d=a
