Implementing Google Colab into your Google Classroom
Google Classroom and I became very well acquainted while teaching high school math remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. It served as a perfect tool to keep track of my classes, assignments, schedule, and sanity. Google continuously adds new features to their platform to help teachers and students navigate this new way of learning across the globe.
When many teachers needed to learn how to use Google Classroom within a day’s notice, online teaching tutorials became the newest type of trending videos and blogs. While many of these explore integrating Google tools such as Slides, Forms, and Jamboards into Google Classroom, one tool integration seems to remain untouched: Google Colab.
Reasons I use Google Colab in my Google Classroom:
- See students’ progress in realtime. (Helpful when monitoring timed quizzes)
- Easily navigate from student to student. (Fast grading)
- No need to use GitHub or download notebooks. (Smoother facilitating)
- More organized. (Students are able to navigate to their notebooks from Google Classroom as the path is saved to their own Google Drive)
Here is an example of Google Colab within Google Classroom from a teacher’s perspective. As you can see, I can monitor student progress and quickly navigate from student to student.
A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Step 1: Create an assignment.
Step 2: Attach the Google Colab Assignment.
Note: This assignment should already be created.
Step 3: Make a copy for each student.
Step 4: Assign!
That’s it! It’s that easy! Hope this was helpful! ⭐
