Google Classroom for Staff Development

[Jesse Thorstad]

A couple of questions for you, if you've been using Classroom for PD:

1. We've been using Moodle to deliver video recorded workshops. Teachers can watch the video, take a quiz, and if scoring 80% or better receive a PDF of a CEU certificate. I set that up using a certificate plug-in for Moodle.

How could the same workflow work in Classroom? Is there an add-on or something that will generate certificates if a certain level is achieved on the quiz?

2. Do you have just one Staff Development class in Classroom, and use Topics to organize and separate the various offerings? Or do you create a new Classroom for each class?

I'd love for folks to only need to join ONE Classroom and have all the available classes there, but it seems to be a mess that way.

Any tips or best practices would be appreciated! Thanks!

Jesse Thorstad Technology Specialist, Fergus Falls Public Schools Phone: 218-998-0544 x9636 Email: jtho...@fergusotters.org Website: www.isd544.org Ride: o ||||||| o

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[Zach Vander Veen]

Hi Jesse,

This is a good question and I'm curious to see what folks might suggest.

A side idea might be to disassociate the tracking/certificate from Classroom. We use WordPress and the excellent MyCred plugin for this. MyCred tracks "CEU" points for teachers (who turn them in for license renewal). Also allows us to gamify a bit (badges instead of certificates). 

MyCred lets you award points via a URL link. So, in theory, you could have a teacher complete a topic/course in Google Classroom. They take a quiz - and based on branched results (ie - they get a question correct) the link appears that then deposits CEUs into their account.

Resources:

• MyCred
• A detailed framework of using mycred and wordpress for professional tracking

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[Jesse Thorstad]

Zach,

Thanks for sharing about MyCred. We host WP as well, so this might be a great tool for us!

I wonder if I could deploy FormMule to look at the total percentage column, and if over 80% then it sends an email with the link to the awarded points?

I suppose there's nothing stopping people from sharing the link and allowing point rewards without really doing the class...although we'd have record of their scores in Classroom...

Bernie, when you set your classes up, do you mean you do like..."Modifying and Adapting Curriculum" would be a class all unto itself? the stream would contain a video, a link to an assessment, and that's about it? I'm thinking that's how I'd set these up.

Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

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