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100+ Great Google Classroom and Gsuite Resources for Educators

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By Vicki Davis
February 5, 2016
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Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. This handy tool has opened up the doors of blended learning and collaborative classrooms like never before. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google. Post updated: April 2, 2022

But there are so many sites! I've spent several weeks combing through resources and have picked some of my favorites. What are yours?

Google Classroom and GSuite Resources

The Google Classroom Bootcamp Due Demo that I recorded with Alice Keeler in March 2020 is an excellent overview of what the student and then the teacher side of Google Classroom look like. I highly suggest it if you're getting started with Google Classroom because it shows you both sides of assigning and submitting assignments.

Google Classroom Tutorials for Students and Parents – added 4/2/2022

Playlist Tutorial
How Students Can Find Their work on Google Classroom
How to Mark Work As Done
How to Create a Google Doc to Go with An Assignment
How to Make Sure You're Logged into Google Chrome Correctly
How Parents Can Add Themselves as a Guardian
How to Easily View Work

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Tutorials

How to Use Google Sheets – A Basic tutorial
Google Sheets Profit and Loss Statements

Google Classroom for Teachers

How to Easily Close out the School Year in Google Classroom with Kasey Bell

Google Meet

Google Meet Bandwidth Detector – 2022
How to Use Google Meet for eLearning and online Learning – 2020 – Ditch that Textbook Matt Miller
Create Google Meet Breakout Rooms in Advance -2021

TIP: The Keyword from Google has breaking announcements and information on Google Classroom.

@ GoogleforEDU on Twitter
All of Alice Keeler's Google Classroom Blog Posts – She's really one of the experts and has separated it into beginner, intermediate and advanced.
Kasey Bell's Google Classroom Resources at Shake Up Learning
Eric Curt's Blog posts at Control Alt Achieve – these are helpful, innovative ideas.
30 Collaborative Google Apps Activities for Schools by Matt Miller – 2020

Interviews with Experts and Classroom Educators

How to Get the Most Out of Google Apps Now with Eric Curts – 2021
How to Get the Most out of Google's Digital Skills Curriculum with Victor Hicks – 2021
Google Jamboard with Tom Mullaney – 2021
Choose Your Own Adventure Professional Development with Laurie Guyon 2021
How to Program and Use App Scripts inside Google with Alice Keeler 2021
What's Hot (And Not) inside Google with Alice Keeler – 2020
3 Add On's to Solve 1 Problem with Michael Backus 2019
Google Jamboard Intro 2018
Kasey Bell's 8 Great Ways to Use Google Slides – 2018
Google Masters for Kids of All Ages: Badges Skills and More with Lee Ann Yonker
Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard with Donnie Piercey
10 Things Google Classroom Makes Easier – an Interview with Alice Keeler
How to Use Google Keep in the Classroom with Crystal Koenig
Cheaters: Google Apps Edition – Eric Curts walks through plagiarism prevention techniques
12 Great Ways to Use Google Drive in Education with Susan Oxnevad
5 Ideas to Amp Up Chromebooks with John Sowash
How a School Saved Half their Classroom Setup Costs with Google Classroom and iPads with Kyle Taylor
Google Classroom: Top New Features to Learn Over the Summer with Alice Keeler
How to Use Google Keep in the Classroom with Crystal Koenig
23 Gsuite Ideas to Excite Your Students about Learning with Eric Curts

Tools to Help You Work with Google Classroom

Kasey Bell has a “ Getting Started with Google Classroom ” courses which are what I've taken. 2022

A Google Classroom Symbaloo – Share this one with teachers who are getting started. They can make it their startup screen and test one thing a day.
Google Apps/ GAFE Tutorials for Teachers – a massive site full of tutorials. Use and email these out as you have specific tasks for teachers to learn. For beginners
Shake Up Learning Has some great resources like their Guide to Google Classroom Comments: All You Need to Know and How to Insert Super Cool Gifs into Presentations and Docs –
Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walkthroughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms
Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments
Doctopus helps with management – while it does some things Google Classroom does, there are other features it manages too.
There's also a Goobric web app launcher for Chrome.
Use this Graphic for Students Turning in Work
10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad
Google Classroom: Using the Rubric Tab to Assess Students
Alice Keeler's Google Classroom Feedback Workflow
Google Classroom and GeoGebra
60 Ways Math Teachers Can Use Google Classroom by Alice Keeler
gMath for Forms – add math symbols to Google Forms
5 Ways Students Can Use Google Docs in Math
gMath for Sheets – Lets you add formulas to Google Sheets
Mathematical Equations – Up to Date Information from Google on using equations
Google Classroom Part I – How 7th grade math teacher Sherrie Nackel organizes her files and assignments

Literature and Composition

Voice Typing and Other Tools to Use with Google Docs
Google Classroom: Using a Writing Journal
15 Best Google Drive Add-Ons for Education
5 Ways to Make Professional Looking Google Documents
How to Add Google Drive to Microsoft Word
How to Make Google Chrome Faster, Better and Prettier
Helpful Google Search Modifiers Poster
Google Docs Research Tool Removes the Drudgery from Presentations
Google Research Tool by Tammy Worcester Tang
Google Classroom Add-on for Chrome For beginners
Google Lesson Plan Tool for Docs –
Classroom Mobile App for Android and iOS
Edusync app for Google Calendars
Google Chrome Desktop Plugin lets you access another person's Chromebook or Chrome browser from your teacher computer (or vice versa)
Share to Classroom lets you push web pages to your student browsers instantly. Helps get everyone on the same page quickly
How to Add Google Drawings Comic Strips to Your Class with Matt Miller and Cori Orlando added 12/24/17
50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller For beginners
50 Things to Go Further with Google Classroom: A Student Centered Approach by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller
Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis – my book on Collaborative Writing
The Chromebook Classroom by John Sowash

Google Classroom Research and White Papers

Brown, M. E., & Hocutt, D. L. (2015). Learning to use, useful for learning: a usability study of Google apps for education . Journal of Usability Studies , 10 (4), 160-181.

Dotson, K. B., & Clark, C. (2015). Together we can… Knowledge Quest , 44 (2), 8.

Izenstark, A., & Leahy, K. L. (2015). Google Classroom for Librarians: Features and Opportunities . Library Hi Tech News , 32 (9), 1-3.

Johnson, C. H., Linahan, M., Cuba, A. F., Dickmann, S. R., Hogan, E. B., Karos, D. N., … & Ropinski, B. L. (2016, January). Google Classroom and Open Clusters: An Authentic Science Research Project for High School Students . In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 227).

Kelly, L. B. (2015). ” You Can't Just Write an Essay in an Hour”: Supporting Middle Schoolers' Peer Feedback and Revision Process through Online Writing Groups . Voices From the Middle , 23 (2), 81.

Phiri, L., Meinel, C., & Suleman, H. (2016). Streamlined Orchestration: An Orchestration Workbench Framework for Effective Teaching . Computers & Education .

Build Your Google Classroom PLN

Google classroom hashtags.

# gafechat is the first and third Tuesday of each month 8-9 pm CST
# gafesummit – This is run by Edtechteam.com but many people share resources to this hashtag

Google Classroom Pinterest Boards

Resources on Pinterest relating to Google Classroom https://www.pinterest.com/explore/google-classroom/
Shake Up Learning has 155 guides and tutorials on Google Classroom: https://www.pinterest.com/ShakeUpLearning/google-classroom/
Dianne Miller's Pinterest Board https://www.pinterest.com/1dimiller/google-classroom/
Resources on Pinterest about Google Docs https://www.pinterest.com/explore/google-docs/
Nadine Trinchero has 160+ resources on her Pinterest Board https://www.pinterest.com/ntrinchero/google-docs-in-the-classroom/
Shake Up Learning has another board with lots of resources: https://www.pinterest.com/ShakeUpLearning/all-things-google/

Accounts Who Share About Google Classroom on Twitter

This is hard because there are so many who tweet about #gafe , but here a few.

@ GoogleforEdu – The official handle for everything Google in education
@ GAFEAcademy – the Google Apps for Education Academy
@ EdTechTeam – They do a lot of training classes for Google Apps
@ thegooglegooru – Has lots of tips for using Google
@ alicekeeler – She's an expert.
@ ericcurts – His Control Alt Achieve Blog is so helpful!
Download the Gooru's Classroom Cards – you could print and share these at a staff meeting For beginners

80+ Google Classroom Tutorials from Richard Byrne

For beginners – a great playlist. Just click on the list and pick the video you need. Richard Byrne is someone I highly recommend!

Control Alt Achieve Playlist by Eric Curts

He has so many ideas for using Gsuite in the classroom, you'll love this playlist! Scroll through the 22 videos and learn! added 7/25/17

2017 Updated Guide to Google Classroom

Added 7/25/17

50 Ways to Use Google Classroom

This video made by Jeffrey Bradbury and Alice Keeler is a fantastic hands-on entry into Google Classroom. added 7/25/17

Convert an Image to an Editable Doc

Google Docs in the Math Classroom by Daniel Kaufman

What is missing?

Please leave your suggestions in the comments.

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis is a full-time classroom teacher and IT Director in Georgia, USA. She is Mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world. She hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast which interviews teachers around the world about remarkable classroom practices to inspire and help teachers. Vicki focuses on what unites us -- a quest for truly remarkable life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers that are grounded in the truth and shared with love. Vicki has been teaching since 2002 and blogging since 2005. Vicki has spoken around the world to inspire and help teachers reach their students. She is passionate about helping every child find purpose, passion, and meaning in life with a lifelong commitment to the joy and responsibility of learning. If you talk to Vicki for very long, she will encourage you to "Relate to Educate" or "innovate like a turtle" or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves to talk to teachers who love their students and are trying to do their best. Twitter is her favorite place to share and she loves to make homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and enjoys running half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

17 comments

This is an excellent consolidation of the many things that Google Classroom and GAFE can do! Thank you for finding the best of the best and categorizing them so clearly. I especially appreciate your section on how to use GAFE for math; I so often hear math teachers telling me that they just can’t use the Google Apps in their classrooms! The videos are an especially effective tool to help familiarize newbies to all the wonders that GAFE can do. Again, thank you for such a comprehensive post.

So glad it is helpful Reggie!

Great list of resources! I’ve shared it in my Google Classroom class for staff! There have been a few early adopters in the building that I’m encouraging and more get on board in two’s and three’s.

Good luck, Chris! I’m so glad it is helpful!

Lots of great stuff here. Here’s another one that isn’t Classroom-specific but rather a list of tools matched to tasks you’d like to carry out on a Chromebook.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pDsGwn7_Z38AYrvOtqqHbX_osrxxKIUpV1kRDiPL7bc/edit#heading=h.4c6x4p5qplh7

Thanks Peter!

A great resource site!!

What a comprehensive site! I have already looked a few of the links. It is going to take me a few visits to see all that I want to. I especially like “A Google Classroom Symbaloo.” I plan to many of GAFE. Having them organized like that makes it much easier to systemically try those that are applicable and interesting to me.

Wonderful list of #GAFE resources, Vicki! I started using Google Classroom with my Grades 6-8 science classes, and we love it. I’m finding so many creative and time efficient ways to use it. I’d like to see how other teachers are using the Google Apps and Google Classroom in science.

Awesome! Maybe some will reply! Also reach out to Alice Keeler as she is super in touch with the gafe community!

Vicki, Thanks for this. I know you posted this a while back but you’ve convinced me to give Google Classroom another shot.

This is an epic roundup post!

Thanks Mark!

Wow!! Thank you so much!

I found this to be very helpful. This resource really helped me understand how Google suite can affect the way we teach. Math teachers commonly claim that Google does not work well for them in their classroom. Thanks

I love Google Classroom and I love that you have collect so much information about how to use them for educators! Thank you!!

I really enjoyed reading this blog. It shared a bunch of great resources that I will be able to use in the future to make a classroom a better learning experience for the students.