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How to Check Submitted Assignments in Google Classroom

As an educator, managing assignments and tracking student progress is essential to ensure a seamless learning experience. With the ever-increasing reliance on digital tools, Google Classroom has emerged as a popular platform for teachers and students alike. Among its many features, the ability to check submitted assignments stands out as a valuable tool for educators. In this blog post, we will explore how you can effectively utilize this feature in Google Classroom to streamline your grading process and gain valuable insights into your students' performance. Let's dive in!

Check Submitted Assignments in Google Classroom: 5 Steps

Step-1 Open App - Ensure that you have the latest version of the Google Classroom app installed on your device.

• Sign in to the app using your Google account credentials for seamless access to your classes.

Step-2 Open Class - From the home screen of the app, select the class for which you want to check the submitted assignments.

• If you have multiple classes, use the search or navigation features to quickly locate the desired class.

Step-3 Open assignment - In the class stream or the "Classwork" tab, find the assignment you want to review.

• Click on the assignment to open it and view the details, instructions, and the list of students who have submitted their work.

Step-4 Click on Student - Within the assignment view, you will see a list of students who have submitted their assignments.

• Click on a student's name to access their submitted work and provide feedback or grade their assignment.

Step-5 Check assignment - Once you have opened a student's submission, carefully review their work, paying attention to the details and requirements of the assignment.

• Use the built-in tools within Google Classroom, such as highlighting, commenting, or adding private notes, to provide feedback or ask questions regarding the assignment.

Checking submitted assignments in Google Classroom is a straightforward process that allows teachers to efficiently review and provide feedback on their students' work. By following the steps outlined above, you can easily navigate through the Google Classroom app, access specific assignments, and review each student's submission. This streamlined workflow not only saves time but also enables educators to gain valuable insights into their students' progress and tailor their teaching accordingly.

• Regularly check for app updates to ensure you have access to the latest features and improvements.
• Customize your notification settings in Google Classroom to receive alerts when students submit assignments or require your attention.
• Utilize the "Gradebook" feature in Google Classroom to keep track of students' overall performance and progress.

Can I check submitted assignments on Google Classroom using a web browser?

Yes, you can access and check submitted assignments on Google Classroom through a web browser by visiting the Google Classroom website and signing in with your Google account.

The process of checking assignments in a web browser is similar to the steps outlined in the blog post. Simply navigate to the class, open the assignment, and click on the student's name to review their submission.

How do I differentiate between assignments that are turned in and those that are missing?

In Google Classroom, assignments that have been turned in by students will have a checkmark icon next to their names in the assignment view.

To identify missing assignments, look for student names without the checkmark icon. You can also use the "Missing" filter option available in Google Classroom to view a list of assignments that are yet to be submitted.

Is it possible to provide feedback or grade assignments offline in Google Classroom?

Yes, you can provide feedback or grade assignments offline in Google Classroom by downloading student submissions. Simply open the student's assignment, click on the three-dot menu, and select the option to download their work.

Once you have downloaded the submissions, you can review them offline and provide feedback using your preferred method. When you have an internet connection, you can then access Google Classroom and enter the grades or provide online feedback based on your offline review.

Can students see each other's submissions in Google Classroom?

By default, students cannot see each other's submissions in Google Classroom.

However, as an educator, you have the option to enable a "Student-to-student comments" feature for assignments, allowing students to view and comment on each other's work. This feature can be enabled when creating or editing an assignment.

What options do I have for providing feedback on a student's assignment?

Google Classroom provides various options for providing feedback on a student's assignment. You can add comments directly on the assignment document, use the built-in commenting feature in Google Classroom, or provide feedback orally in class.

Additionally, you can use rubrics, private comments, or the "Reuses post" feature to provide feedback or guidance to individual students or the entire class.

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Tracking Missing Assignments For Students and Guardians

Published: April 18, 2023

As the end of the school year approaches, students need to get their missing assignments turned in. Not only does this help their overall grade—most class grades depend in part on assignment completion and grades—but completing more assignments helps students’ comprehension as well. Sure, some homework is “busy work”, but certainly not all. 

We talk a lot at Schoolytics about how teachers can handle missing assignments , including how to engage parents in their communications around missing work. 

But the student and family side is just as important, if not more so. Indeed, teachers only have so much influence over what students do between 3pm and 8am. 

Gaps in the student experience in Google Classroom

Students can see their missing assignments in Google Classroom. Helpfully, missing assignments from all classes are listed. 

However, the lack of search functionality (“Didn’t I have an assignment about the Pythagorean Theorem that I missed while I was out sick?”) is a real barrier to finding assignments to work on.  The inability to sort by anything other than date is too restrictive. This constraint, combined with the groupings for “This week”, “Last week”, and “Earlier”, makes the missing assignments view clunky. 

In addition, the “View all” expansion button is easily missed, especially for parents who are not familiar with the interface, leading some students to incorrectly conclude that they have only five missing assignments. 

What students really need is support with time management and prioritization skills (all part of executive functioning ). This manifests as understanding how to choose which missing work to tackle first and why.  When faced with dozens of missing assignments, where do you start? 

Perhaps they want to do assignments that are worth a lot of points.  Perhaps they need to ignore assignments due before a specific date because their teacher stopped accepting late work. Unfortunately, these filtering and sorting aids are not available in Google Classroom.

But students can get very granular with missing assignments in Schoolytics .  Sorting, filtering, and ranking are all possible.

In addition, Schoolytics gives students insights into their aggregate data, so they can see how they’re faring more generally.  This also helps them to see more clearly how they are progressing across all of their classes, and prioritize their time accordingly. 

Options for Guardians

Because Google Classroom lacks a robust parent experience , guardians have additional challenges in tracking missing assignments for their children. The guardian summaries are somewhat helpful, but are not clickable and only give parents a brief snapshot into what was missed over a period of time. There needs to be a summary of the severity of the problem.  Parents tend to ignore them for lack of actionable information.  

In Schoolytics, we focus on summarizing and distilling the information down so that guardians can know at a glance whether their child is significantly behind or just has a few things to hand in. And they can see all of their children in one view, thereby saving a lot of time trying to log in and out of Google Classroom accounts. Parents can set alerts, which are similar to summary emails, to keep tabs on missing work.

Thousands of parents, guardians, students, and educators use Schoolytics to unlock a deeper understanding of missing assignments. Want to learn more or share Schoolytics with your district? Get in touch with us today!

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Sync Missing and Late from Google Classroom

We observed that many teachers manually enter “missing” into TeacherEase when students don’t hand in their work.  This seems like a lot of labor, and we thought it was an area of improvement for our system.  So we added the ability for TeacherEase to automatically pull in missing and late statuses from Google Classroom.  Let’s describe how it works.

When teachers create assignments in Google Classroom, they give it a due date/time.  As students hand in their work, Google notifies TeacherEase, and we mark it “handed-in” in TeacherEase.  Notice in the screenshot below, 3 students have handed in their assignments, but 2 have not.

We check Google shortly after an assignment’s due date/time to find students who haven’t handed in their work.  For any student who has NOT yet handed in work (and the due date/time has passed), we’ll mark the work as “missing.”  This is shown as the magnifying glass in TeacherEase.  Their score will be blank, and it will not affect their average.  In the screenshot below, notice two students who haven’t handed in their work.

If some students eventually hand in missing work after the deadline, we’ll change their status from “missing” to “handed-in.”  We’ll also mark it as “late.”  In the screenshot below, notice Wanda Bonham handed in missing work.

When teachers grade work in Google Classroom, scores will flow back into TeacherEase, as usual.  Notice that all the students who’ve handed in work now have a score (and Wanda's work is still late).

By default, missing work will have a blank score in TeacherEase, which does not affect students’ grades.  At some point, teachers may want to give scores to missing work.  This could be a zero, or some other score (many districts have minimum score policies to prevent zeros from being overly punitive).  TeacherEase has long supported features to “Mass Edit Scores” and “Mark Missing as Zero.”  This makes it easy to push scores to a group of students with a few keystrokes.

If you give a zero to missing work, you’ll see the magnifying glass turn red.  This clarifies that missing work has been marked as zero.  You can see this for Keith Brown below.

If a student with missing work eventually hands it into Google Classroom, TeacherEase will be updated.  The “missing” status will be removed, the score will stay, and “late” will be applied.  

When students hand in late work, we’ll notify teachers with the TeacherEase Newsfeed.  Teachers can choose to also be notified in the TeacherEase mobile app or by email.  This can be configured in Notification Settings.

When the teacher enters a score for the work in Google Classroom, the score will flow into TeacherEase and overwrite the zero (or other low score).  The end result will be student work with a score that’s marked late.

The process described above is pretty common for teachers, and we hope the majority of our users like it.  We do understand that some teachers may use a different process, however.  So the new import of missing/late statuses is optional.  If the feature doesn’t work for you, no problem, it’s easy to turn off.  Just uncheck the checkbox in Google Classroom Setup, and we’ll stop updating missing/late statuses.

We hope you like these new features, and that it’ll save lots of time.  Enjoy!

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