Google Classroom Setup - CMS Linking Classes

Guide to help you link your classes to Google Classroom, benefit to using the Bridge: all completed work comes over, and will show the teachers in one place the student activity.

Admin-CMS Class Setup: Set up the class and student registrations as you would any CMS class. 

For Curriculum-it is recommended that the instructor of the class add the Google Classroom curriculum.

Options when attaching Google Classroom Curriculum:

Option 1: Create a NEW Google Classroom Class from School Pathways:

Add the Generic Google Classroom Curriculum onto the CMS class to create a NEW class in Google Classroom.

Option 2: Create a LINK between an already existing Google Classroom Class and the CMS Class in School Pathways

Utilize the “Link to Existing Google Classroom '' option instead of adding the generic Google Classroom curriculum.

Option 1: Creating New Google Classroom Sections 

Navigate: Teachers>CMS-Classroom Management>CMS- Classroom Management

• Click the Book Icon (Set Curricula) for the desired CMS class
  
• Click the Google Classroom button to pull up the Generic Google Classroom curriculum
  • Optional: Can alternatively use the Text Search (in conjunction with the Category filter set to --All--) and type in the word “google”.
    
• Use the checkbox to select the generic Google Classroom curriculum.
  • Optional: Change the name of the class (This will become the name of the class in Google Classroom)
    

• Click Save

All students registered (with Google Accounts correctly linked) for the class will receive invites to the newly created Google Classroom. Upon the next sync (nightly or manually), any grades and assignments entered in that class in Google Classroom will come over into the School Pathways gradebook.

Option 2: Create a LINK between an already existing Google Classroom Class and the CMS Class in School Pathways

Navigate: Teachers>CMS-Classroom Management>CMS- Classroom Management

• click the Book Icon (Set Curricula) for the desired CMS class
  
• Click the Google Classroom button under the Import Bridged Curricula section
  

• Choose the corresponding Google Classroom class to link
  

Upon clicking the

button, wait until a g

reen Successful message is displayed before proceeding

 Once linking is successful, click

 
• Students in the existing google class must be using their school issued gmail. If not, the students will not link properly. Contact your admin for further assistance if needed.

General Information

• Assignments and Grades from Google Classroom sync automatically on a nightly basis for all Active classes.
• All Class creation and Student Registration is maintained from the School Pathways side.
• All Assignment and Grade information comes FROM google classroom into the School Pathways gradebook

Icons:

• Load Grades/Sync: Allows the user to sync the grades/assignments for a single class (rather than waiting for the nightly sync)
• Google Classroom Icon: Allows the logged-in user to access their Google Classroom Dashboard

Classwork & Grades (in Google Classroom)

• Assignments must be saved (not draft form) to come back over the bridge. 
• Assignments, Quiz Assignments, Questions: Come into the School Pathways gradebook as “Assignments”.
• Grades must be Returned to the students before they will come back into School Pathways.
• “Categories” from Google Classroom do not come over the bridge at this time.
• “Topics” from Google Classroom do not come over the bridge at this time.

• Must be a school day (not due on a holiday/weekend)
• If class meets M/W/F, then due dates should fall on those days.
• If No Due Date is given for an assignment, it will fall into the School Pathways gradebook with a due date of the last day of the current reporting period.

( in Google Classroom): If needing to change the name of the class in Google Classroom-
• In the School Pathways (CMS) navigate to the Book Icon (Set Curricula)
• Click the Pencil next to the curriculum title
  
• Type in the new name (this will only be seen in Google Classroom-does NOT alter the name of the class in School Pathways)
• Click the Save icon next to the curriculum name.
• Click Save on the bottom right of the screen to save the changes.  Upon saving, the class name in Google Classroom will update.
We do not bring over weighted categories at this time. If your Google Classroom class is set to weighted categories, the assignments will still come over the bridge and show in your School Pathways gradebook however, it will not reflect an accurate grade. To check this, go to your Google Classroom class settings and look under the grading section: