We've had to do a lot of new learning and, for me, that includes Google Classroom. A lot of our teachers are using Google Classroom for assignments, so I've been educating myself so I can help trouble shoot. One issue that has come up has been assigning specific things to students from resources and files that teachers are using. Specifically, I've been looking into how to assign specific slides from a larger Google Slides presentation. I read a little about the GSuite App called Slip-In-Slide that allows you to insert slides into multiple student presentations at one time, but I don't know much about it. I'm guessing that you have to have a GSuite account, which I know not all districts have. So the only workaround I know of is to create mini presentations based on the needed slides. I recently wrote a blog post about my Writing Center and have been working on digital versions of my Writing Prompts to use in Google Classroom. I thought I'd do a little tutorial about picking certain Writing Prompts to assign to students in Google Classroom! I hope you find this helpful!
So let's start with the large Google Slides presentation. This one has 25 slides, each with one Writing Prompt and a space for students to respond.
Another option is to assign certain slides to the class. There is no way, that I am aware of, within a Google Slides presentation to assign anything other than the whole presentation. But here's how you can make it work.
Step 1- Make a copy of the entire Slides presentation. I'm going to rename it 'Week 1 April Prompts', which will make sense after reading Step 2.
Step 2- Look through the whole presentation and decide how you want to organize it for your students. My Writing Prompts contain 25 unique prompts, so there are more than enough to assign 5 per week. I can decide which 5 prompts I want to assign for the first week of April. Once I decide, I am going to delete all the other slides. Remember- this is a copy of the other file so I still have the complete presentation in my Drive, I'm not deleting them forever!! Whew! My new file looks like this-
Step 3- Assign my new file to my students in Google Classroom. Remember to change the option to 'Make A Copy For All Students' after you add the file from your Drive.
I really hope that this tutorial helped you! You can use these same steps with any Google presentation that you have. Please let me know in the comments if it did or if you have any other questions!
If you'd like to see more of my April Writing Prompts Gone Digital! click the links below!!
