Our teachers use a range of digital tools and online applications to enhance our students individualised learning journey when either working at school or working from home. Our teachers integrate these tools into their lessons; to make the excitement about the learning and not about the tool. The technology we use is a part of the student’s classroom toolkit, just like any other resource.
The digital revolution demands that we are constantly innovating, exploring new ways to learn and teach. We want to equip all of our students with a skill set that will allow them to flourish and prepare them for jobs that don’t yet exist.
We transform what happens inside and outside the classroom by using leading practices in the purposeful use of technology.
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More than just a tool for storage or searching, G Suite for Education offers everyone at Hipperholme a set of tools and applications that have revolutionised previous systems of teaching and learning. With G Suite for Education, communication, collaboration and feedback are simple, instant and effective. Students and Teachers find that these provide an easy way to collaborate, innovate and stay organised.
The best way to get started and get the full experience of G Suite and Google Classroom for students working from home or at school is to download Google Chrome on the device that they are working on. This will allow students to log in to Chrome, and keep their school account and work completely separate from any other accounts when using shared devices at home. We do recommend that ideally, this is on a Windows, Mac OS or Chromebook PC or Laptop with a keyboard and mouse. Google Chrome can also be downloaded for Android and iOS tablets and mobile device too.
Once you have downloaded Google Chrome and installed it on your PC or Mac, you’re ready to sign-in to your school Google account which will look something like bloggsj@hgsf.org.uk. We do recommend that you sign-in as a new Person onto Google Chrome, as this will give you a separate desktop shortcut to launch and will keep your school account entirely separate from any others you have, or anyone else at home.
If you’re unsure of how to do this then watch how to sign-in to Google Chrome
Google Classroom is an online platform developed by Google for schools, called G Suite for Education, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Classroom is to streamline the sharing files between teachers and students and see everything in one place and combines:
Students can be invited to join a teacher’s Class through code, or automatically added as a Classroom group. Each Class creates a separate folder in the student’s Google Drive, when the student submits work to be assessed by a teacher. Mobile apps, available for iOS and Android devices, let students and teachers to take photos and attach to assignments, share files from other apps, and access information on mobile devices if signed into their School Google account. Teachers can monitor the progress for each student, and after being assessed, teachers can return work along with comments to the students individually.
All of these Google products can be accessed in a web-browser on a Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook device as well as in a Chrome browser on an Android or iOS smartphones and tablets provided the student signs in with their Google School account. These can all be downloaded as individual apps for wither the Android or iOS app store.
Watch this guide to see how your students should access their work in Google Classroom and how they can get around each Class and each Assignment.
The video shows students how they can:
Watch how students complete assignments in Google Classroom
Trouble signing into Chrome? Watch how students should sign-in into their School account properly in Chrome
If parents or students have any questions about the work assigned, please ask your Teacher in either the ‘private comments’ section with each assignment, or add a ‘comment’ the Classroom ‘stream’.
If you or your child require any help with any aspect of accessing Google Classroom, Signing In, or using their School Google Account please contact me with details of the help you require and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Andy Eastcrabbe
IT Manager