Google Classroom: Quick Overview for Teachers

Stream: communicate with your class on the Stream page using posts, comments, and replies.
A post is information or a question you add to the class stream.
For example: When do we visit the museum?
A comment is a response to a post or another comment.
For example: We go next Friday.
A reply is a response to someone’s comment that mentions them.
For example: +commenter’s name Thanks!

You can post announcements to your class on the Stream page. Announcements are posts with no assignments. You can draft and schedule announcements, and control who comments or replies to posts.
Students get an email for each announcement, but they can turn off the email notification feature.

For further information about posting to the stream, you can go to this page: https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6020270..
Classwork: you can create assignments, quizzes, and questions to your students. Create overarching topics for the students to look over and put in the topic materials in there. All created assignments, quizzes, or questions can be graded or you can choose to leave it ungraded. You are also able to provide due dates on each assignment, quiz, or question or leave it with no due date.
People: you can add co-teachers and students in this section. Students that are a part of the APTS G Suite account will also allow you to add their parent and/or guardian to view your classroom.

NOTE: students are able to unenroll themselves from your class. If they unenroll, their grades will be removed. Students are able to re-enroll and their work will be displayed again.
Grades: You are able to grade your assignments but total points or weighted by category. You also have the option to provide ungraded assignments, questions, or quizzes and choose no overall grade in which grades will not be calculated and the students will not see an overall grade.

NOTE: adding grading systems are only available on the web version of Classroom.
To-Do: You can filter out the work that you have assigned to your students in the to-do section.
Some details are shown as:
Turned in: students who submitted work
Assigned: students who didn't submit work

Graded: students whose work you graded and returned

Note: You can filter both tabs by class to view only the work for a class.
- To Review: any work that is not turned in or not graded is shown here.
- Reviewed: all work that you have graded and returned to your students are shown here.