10 Ways to Use Google Calendar in Your Classroom
1. Schedule and keep track of your meetings with teachers, parents, and students.
You can enter in a meeting on your Google Calendar and invite other teachers, parents, and or students through the use of gmail to this meeting.
2. Create appointment slots for students, parents, and/or teachers to use to sign up for a meeting with you.
Here is a video that explains how to set up appointment slots:
3. Keep everything for a meeting or lesson in one place.
When you create an event on your Google Calendar you can add attachments to that event. Add in your Google Slides presentation, lesson plan, or what ever resource(s) you want to use in class that day or at that meeting so they are all in one place.
4. Share a calendar on a classroom website
You can embed a Google Calendar into a Google Site (your classroom website) or share parents the link to the class calendar.
5. Have your students create an assignment calendar
Have your students use Google Calendar instead of a student planner. They can enter in dates of upcoming assessments, fun things going on at school, etc.
6. Use Google Calendar as a lesson plan book
Instead of using a traditional paper lesson plan book, create a separate calendar for each class that you teach and create an event for each lesson. You could attach to the event any materials/resources you will need for that lesson (see number 3 above). Next year when you come to teach the lesson again, you can look back at last year's calendar and view your lessons and resources.
7. Use Google Calendar to layout/plan out units
Create a separate calendar for each class and use the month view to layout your units to make sure that you have time for everything. This can help you to stay schedule throughout the school year. You could also attach in your unit plans (see number 3 above).
8. Create a calendar for after school activities
Create a Google Calendar for the club that you advise or the sport that you teach. You could put on the calendar meeting dates, due date for various forms, practices, etc.
9. Check out shared resources
Google Calendar can be used to sign up for share resources such as computer labs, meeting rooms, Chromebooks, iPads, etc. Students could use this to sign out materials from the classroom library.
10. Google Calendar and Google Classroom are integrated together
Here is a video that explains how having these two Google Apps integrated is a bonus to a classroom. Here is a video that talks about how to use it with students:
Here is a great one talking about the how to share your Google Classroom calendar:
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