Google Certification for Educators: Level 1 Review

Mr. Yamouth needs to contact a student’s parents to congratulate the student on improved progress. However, their first language is German and they are not fully fluent in English. What is the quickest action he could do to produce an effective email on his own?

• • Post the message text on Google+ to see if someone can help translate it to German

• • Use Gmail to send a message around the school to search for a student who can help translate the email to German

• • Use Google Search to find someone local offering German translation services to help with the email

• • Search the Chrome Web Store for the Google Translate extension for Chrome. Use the extension to provide a German version of the text within the email

Students already familiar with a web-conneced world will feel immediately at home with Google Classroom. What benefits will they enjoy from their assignments going online?

Select 3

• • Students can discuss assignments in a collaborative environment

  
  

• • Students can see at a glance when assignments are due

• • Students can view each other’s assignments if they need ideas

• • If students are sick from school they can cancel pending assignments from home using the Cancel button

• • Assignments and resources are kept organized in one place

Mr. Perry has bookmarked a large number of webpages in Chrome while researching class topics. Unfortunately, he’s bookmarked so many that he’s struggling to find relevant content Quickly. What can he do within the Bookmark manager of Chrome to simplify and organize his list of bookmarks?

Select 2

• • Delete bookmarks that are not urgently required and search for them again when they are needed

• • Use the search function in the Chrome Bookmark Manager

• • Rename and organize bookmarks into themed folders so they are labeled clearly

• • Create a Doc that lists all favorite websites with links

Mr. Swanson’s politics students had to create a blog about their policies if they were elected to be on the school’s student council. One student received a nasty response from an online user she doesn’t know. What advice should Mr. Swanson give her to overcome this type of response?

• Select 4

• • Check and change privacy settings on her blog to see if she had shared it with just members of her school or with the public

• • Document the user’s details

• • Block the person from accessing the blog

• • Report the incident to a member of staff if it happens again

• • Respond directly to the person and challenge their comments

Ms. Garcia has divided her class into groups to work on different geography projects. Each group will present their project to the class using Google Slides. What are some benefits of using Slides in group projects?

• Select 4

• • Students can browse and copy slides created by any student at any other school

• • Students can edit speaker notes to help improve each other’s presentation delivery

• • Students can comment on slides to provide feedback for their group members

• • Students can collaborate on the slide desk at the same time

• • Students can import videos from YouTube or a Drive folder they’ve shared with each other without additional software

Mr. Jones is keen to move to a paperless class as he finds the process of managing 150 paper based assignments time consuming. How will shifting to Classroom help?

Select 3

• • When a teacher sets an assignment in Classroom, email notifications and the class Stream ensure students don’t need to be constantly reminded

• • Teachers can define answers when they set assignments to enable auto-grading

• • When a student completes an assignment, Classroom automatically emails all related documents to peers in their class for review

• • Teachers can grade and comment on assignments directly in Classroom and students will immediately receive email notifications to view their scores

• • Students can exchange messages with each other to help clear up any assignment misunderstanding without having to ask their teacher

Match the Google App with a way that it can be used within slides to encourage student participation:

Google Docs

• SUGGESTION NOTEPAD

• ADDITIONAL REFERENCE MATERIAL

• GAUGE UNDERSTANDING

• RATE THE CONTENT THAT IS BEING PRESENTED

• GRAPHICALLY DESIGN IDEAS

Match the Google App with a way that it can be used within slides to encourage student participation:

Google Forms

• SUGGESTION NOTEPAD

• ADDITIONAL REFERENCE MATERIAL

• GAUGE UNDERSTANDING

• RATE THE CONTENT THAT IS BEING PRESENTED

• GRAPHICALLY DESIGN IDEAS

Match the Google App with a way that it can be used within slides to encourage student participation:

Google Drawings

• SUGGESTION NOTEPAD

• ADDITIONAL REFERENCE MATERIAL

• GAUGE UNDERSTANDING

• RATE THE CONTENT THAT IS BEING PRESENTED

• GRAPHICALLY DESIGN IDEAS

Match the benefits of a digital classroom with the pain points they overcome by selecting the bolded statement and the benefit that goes with it.

• Prescriptive teaching methods that do not allow for teacher creativity in class instruction or materials

• Students given access to different types of information from a range of sources for enhanced problem-solving

• The ability to collaborate remotely in real-time with peers on group projects

• Access to resources and information relevant for different learning speeds