How to Make a Class Website with Google Sites
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- Learn how to make a class website with Google Sites. In this week's education technology tutorial, veteran educator Sam Kary shows you everything you need to know in order to create a dynamic, interactive class website for your students.
Posting all your course materials online has always been an important way to make your class more accessible, but the uncertainty around whether or not schools will be teaching students remotely, in-person, or through a blended approach, makes creating a class website even more relevant.
In this video, you'll learn how to use Google Sites to share assignments, course materials, and links to other technology programs, how to use a class website to showcase student work, how to use it to keep students and families updated about important school events, and more!
You'll also learn how to integrate your Google Classroom with Google Sites in order to create a significantly more engaging and dynamic digital classroom experience!
Below are the links to all the programs featured in this video:
Google Sites: sites.google.com/new
Padlet: padlet.com/
Google Classroom: classroom.google.com/h
Google Slides: www.google.com/slides/
Google Docs: docs.google.com/document/
Screencastify: www.screencastify.com/
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Muchas gracias, muy útil!
Question: How can students access the google site?
You just need to share the published link with them!
Does anyone know of a list of VR tours and other activities compatible with Google VR headset?
Can this be integrated with Google Classroom or Class Website?
This helps with distance learning, thanky you for your channel!
@@NewEdTechClassroom Great information! Can I link the website with Schoology? My School district only use Schoology! Please let me know how that works!
Dear Sam, I've just created a draft of my class site following your clear and easy to follow tutorial. Thanks a million, I really love learning with you. You make everything so easy and achievable. My students think I am a tech teacher, but the truth is that I spend my nights watching your videos to learn more and more each day. Wish you all the best. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for the kind words and I am thrilled to hear that! Thank you so much for the support and best of luck to you!
No nonsense, rapid fire instructions . Exactly what is required, thanks for posting, great content.
I appreciate that! Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
I have been watching educational tech videos all summer to find ways to engage children in Distance Learning and you have the BEST videos, hands down! They are clear, comprehensive and you provide great tips on HOW to APPLY this knowledge in today's classroom. You explain a lot in a short time and you make me feel that I can do it, too! LOVE YOUR STUFF. Your channel is the ONLY TH-cam channel to which I subscribe. Kuddos for prompting me to hit that button. I don't want to miss a thing!
Lynn, thank you so much for making my day!! :) Best of luck to you in the new school year!
This video was exactly what I needed to start my Google Site page. Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
This was one of the best tutorials that I’ve had. It was clear, dynamic, and presented with a stylish velvet voice. Thank you for the inspirational fly over the Google Sites scope.
Thank you so much, Anush!
Your tutorials, Sam--are a huge help in this unprecedented school year! I so appreciate this! Thank you for going slow and methodical with your explanations, understanding that not all of us are tech savvy teachers.
You're very welcome, Debra!
You made this process look so easy. Thanks for the video.
You're very welcome, Jeff!
This was incredibly helpful. You moved at a great pace with completely relevant help. Thank you!
So glad to hear that, Ann! Thanks for your support!
That was the most helpful tech teaching tutorial I've ever watched!!
Thank you so much, Irene!!
This was great! Straightforward and informative. Can't wait to get started on my own class site. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I really thank you for this presentation!! I am studying for my Google Educator's Certificate, Level 1, and their directions were sketchy at best. I designed my own website while watching your video (with a lot of pauses and replays) but I have the start to a site that I really like!!
Awesome, so glad you found it helpful!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I appreciate your step by step directions so much! Your channel has become a go-to for me as I learn to make the most of the technology resources available to educators.
You're very welcome, Megan! Glad to hear you've been finding my videos helpful!
This taught me more in ten minutes than my district tech bro has taught me in ten years. Well done!
I'm glad to hear that, Woniya! Thank you for the support!
Thanks a million. I followed your steps and created my site .I really love your tutorials.
Great to hear!
In general, your TH-cam channel is very useful and relevant special today that we are facing a pandemic. Been so anxious about how I will be teaching online for the upcoming academic year but with all of your easy to follow instructions and different websites on your channel I am starting to ease this anxiety and now I am a little bit excited to try all of your inputs on how I can handle my online classes effectively.
I hope you continue to upload and share ideas because you are helping different teachers around the globe. I'm from the Philippines. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I definitely understand your anxiousness, as everything has been turned upside down. Though once you get started, I think you'll find these technologies are a lot more intuitive and easy to use than we think!
Thank you so much! I feel prepared for the new school year.
That's awesome, Julie! Best of luck!
LOVE your content!
Thank you for posting these videos. I’ve already forwarded them to my HS Math Dept.
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Thank you so much for sharing!!
Love how quick but packed this video is!
Glad to hear you found it valuable Farah!
Just before 2 days I tried and prepared my Google site
I was feeling little difficulties during the design but after watching this video I found myself on right path.
Thank you
Awesome, great to hear!
I'm new to your channel and I love the way you explain everything so simply!
Welcome and thanks so much for the support, SJ!
Thanks for all of these instructions. So clear and concise. I can get through the first semester!
Thanks, Gayle!! You can do it!
I love your videos. Thanks for helping this old lady to learn some new tricks to make learning come alive for my kiddos. You are so clear and concise in your presentation. Great job.
That's so nice of you to say, Vickie! Thanks so much for your support!
Great tutorial. Thank you, Sam! One of the nice features of the new Google site is the integration of all the content on Google Drive. It really makes publishing what you have on Drive a cakewalk.
I agree, thanks for your comment, Zaiyong!
Thanks Sam your tutorials and as the kids would say they are "THE BOMB" and it sure help this Dinosar😊
Thanks, Judy! I appreciate your support!
I have watched many of your videos and they are very helpful because your explanations are so clear. I share them with my student teachers.
Thank you so much for sharing, Lisa!!
Very thorough!!! This will help me a lot this upcoming week.
I'm glad to hear that, Weka! Thanks for watching!
I just to say how grateful I am to have stumbled upon your tutorials! They have helped me SOO much! I've had to step up my remote teaching game and I was very overwhelmed on where to begin until I found your tutorials so THANK YOU!!!!!
That's awesome, Monica! Thanks for making my day! :)
Same! So grateful!! I had a question though about logistics...is it OVERKILL to use both this AND Google Classroom? If you do use both, how do you incorporate it so that it doesn't feel like too much/redundant to the kids? (thinking about having to post/keep up with both Google Classroom AND this site) Thanks again!
SO helpful! Very clear and concise instructions. Thank you!
You're very welcome, Lori!
I have been using a computer for 32 years, but I am totally just a keyboard kowboy. I dont understand the nuts and bolts of tech. I am so looking forward to setting up a Test site for Teaching English online. I Teach English online video chatting 40 hours a week. I work for a platform that is so frustrating. could You let your followers here post links to their websites after they finish setting theirs up? That might encourage some more of us to do the same. Thank You a million. This is absolutely what I need to do. TIA.
Hi Randy, Thanks for your comment! Sure, I think it would be a great idea for people to post the websites they make in the comment stream!
Greetings from Mexico! Thank you so much for your videos! I have learned so much from you in just a couple of weeks! I am recommending your channel to my fellow teachers!
Hello from California! You're very welcome and thank you so much for spreading the word!
Love your tips! I am new to online teaching which will start on August. Your tutorials are a great help. Subscribed!
Awesome! Thank you and best of luck!
Thanks Sam! This tutorial was awesome!
Happy to help!
It is an amazing video. Thanks for making remote learning so effective, efficient and user friendly!
Thank you, Aaron!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am excited to start and make my own google site for my class. Been watching your videos :-) More power!
Awesome, have fun!!
Thanks, Sam. I've learnt a lot from this video.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! This was so helpful. I created my Google Site as I watched the video. I feel more prepared for the unpredictable future.
That's awesome, Debbie! I'm so glad it was helpful and wish you the best of luck!
Very informative! Can't wait to share with my teachers and try it out myself. Thanks!
Thanks, Elizabeth!
Thank you, Sam! This was really helpful. Do you think the assignment page would be too overwhelming to update/ maintain with middle school? I teach 5 sections with modifications and am trying to wrap my head around how that would work. Thanks so much!
Hi Pamela,
So sorry for the very long delay in responding. Long-term maintenance of your Site will no doubt require more work than just maintaining Google Classroom, though I think you'll also find that your Site will be much better organized in the long run than GC, which basically just piles everything together and becomes harder to navigate over time. Still, given that you teach 5 sections, you'll definitely want to consider how much time you're willing to put into maintaining your site (also know that once you do it once, it will be much easier to replicate in the future!).
Extremely helpful many Thanks for posting will share this video.
Awesome, thanks for your support!
That was fantastic thank you so much. Really appreciated.
You're so welcome, Chris! Glad to hear it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this! So very, very helpful!
You're welcome, Katie!!
Excellent Video... Very Professional.. Covered almost all features.
Glad you found it helpful!
Very well done. I have so many new ideas to implement. Thanks!
Great to hear!
Thank you Sam, it was so helpful.
So glad it was helpful, Edelin! Thank you!
Thanks! It was a great tutorial, easy to follow!
I'm glad to hear that, Maria! Thanks so much for watching!
Excellenet Tutorial ,I am going to try as you guided in your video
Good work Mr.Kary hope you enjoy your new life!
Thanks, buddy!
Hello dear Sam, I really love all your classes. I love this one,a ctuaally I mastered in how to create a site thanks to your teaching.
Thanks so much, Getrudes!
Thanks for ur sharing! So helpful!
Any time!
Millions of thanks! 太感谢你了！❤️👍🤝
You're very welcome!
thank you, well explained
So glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!
Hi Sam! Thanks so much for these videos. They are amazing! I had a question. It appears that for your classes you use both your class site and google classroom... I am planning to do the same but I was wondering do your post announcements and clear instructions per day on both the sites and google classroom? Or do you use your website as the main source of information and just post the assignments on google classroom but with all the instructions on the website? I ask this because I also saw your google classroom video so I am wondering how you keep everything flowing nicely... you don't want to be too repetitive right or do we?
Hi Adriana! Thanks for your positive feedback! If you are going to make a website, I would scale back on what you do in Google Classroom and just use it to post assignments that need to be turned in. I would shift all announcements, supplemental resources, etc. to Sites to make it clear that is the main hub, and Google Classroom is a subordinate program where students only assignments. You can still include basic instructions on Google Classroom for each assignment, but I'd skip posting a bunch of other things there.
The majority of teachers out there are just using Google Classroom, not Sites, which is why I also show how to set it up as a one-stop-shop!
Your presentation is very helpful and I will be following you. Thanks.
So glad you found it helpful! Thanks for the support!
Wow! this is really helpful for my class.
Glad to hear that, Noah!
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
You're very welcome, Carla!
Brilliant explanation Sam. Im just going ahead and making my class website
Awesome, best of luck!!
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was great! Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much... Your video are great...
You are most welcome!
Thank you so much for this video!
You're welcome, Arleen!
I am thankful to you regarding this tutorial. It helps me a lot to create one. Thanks for sharing
So glad it was helpful!
Very helpful sir ... Thank You :)
Most welcome!
Thank you very much for this very informative lecture
Glad it was helpful!
truly amazing tutorial
Thank you!
Thanks for the video very useful 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent sir. It's very useful tutorial for my education
Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful!
@@NewEdTechClassroom Hi sir, I am from Srilanka. Your youtube all tutorial video s are excellent sir. Nowadays these kinds of tutorial more help to us. Thank you sir.
Thank you for this! I have been watching many of your video tutorials. I am new to Google Classroom and Google sites. Do you have any videos on how sites and classroom work together? I worry I will be duplicating all of my work when using google classroom. If you do use both together, what sorts of posts/announcements do you put on GC if you’re posting assignments on sites?
Hi Alisha, Sorry for the very long delay in responding here. I don't have a specific video about the interaction between the two, but in general I'd say that if you are going to use Google Sites, I would only use Classroom for strictly utilitarian purposes (to make copies of assignments). I would only put announcements, additional resources, etc. on Sites in order to create a clear hierarchy between the two. I know this question comes up a lot as well, so I can add to my list to make future content on this topic. I hope you've worked out a solution that makes sense for you!
@@NewEdTechClassroom I'd love it if you could make that video. I've just started summer holidays but I really enjoy creating digital material and ways to catch my students attention. So I'm already thinking about starting a Google Site and I'd like to know how to make it work together with Google Classroom.
Thank you so much for everything you taught me during quarantine!
Thank you for this great video tutorial! Quick question, how do we access our bitmoji from our tool bar?
Thanks, Lucianna! You just need to get the Bitmoji Extension! chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitmoji/bfgdeiadkckfbkeigkoncpdieiiefpig?hl=en
@@NewEdTechClassroom Thank you! I figured it out:) Honestly, your videos are better than some of my Board recommended ones!
This has been SO helpful, thank you. Once the calendar is published (from your Google Classroom), do the edits made (added/changed) automatically show up on your Google Site/webpage? TIA.
Yes, as long as you've embedded that calendar!
nice presentation sir, very informative
Thank you!
Thank you sir! Your material supported my wife and me while remote teaching during the pandemic! This is another facet to add to my class!
Continued Success!
Robert and Bonnie
So glad to hear that, Robert and Bonnie! Thank you!
I’ve been enjoying your wonderful ed tech videos. I’ll be starting virtual teaching next week for the first time next week. I’ve heard about snap camera for changing background on google meet. For those using a school issued laptop do you have any suggestions for teachers working from bedrooms that want that private? I’ve been using the blur feature but it doesn’t completely blur my bedroom or the bed behind my laptop. Any suggestions on something that is both safe and won’t slow my laptop down? Thanks
This is a great question. One option would be to use Loom.ai (not to be confused with Loom the screen recorder). You'll see that it creates a virtual background and even an avatar and can help with privacy issues. I'm planning to make a video about it shortly! loomai.com/
You are great! Thanks for sharing
Thank you, Norberto!
Hi, Sam. Thanks for the video. I did love it. I teach business English online and am looking for a way to optimize this teaching. I teach different levels and am not sure if I can do it here. Would you happen to know how that works, please?
Thank you for the great tutorial on making a website on Google. I have one question about inserting the calendar. Do you have to reinsert the calendar in every time that you update the assignments or the events?
No, you don't: it syncs automatically!
Thanks for your amazing video, Sam. My problem now is anytime my students make updates to their portfolio I get so many email notifications. It makes me worried with my emails. How to cope this problem? Is there any tips how to adjust the email setting in portfolio platform? Thanks.
Great help! Thanks! I do have a question though - that I have been unable to find an answer for... I teach elementary and am self contained. I typically make a different Google classroom for each subject area. Is there a way to merge the Google calendars from each Google classroom into just one - so that all of my assignments are on a single calendar? They all show up on my teacher calendar - Do I need to post a separate calendar for each class or give up having a separate Google Classroom for each subject area?
Hi Linda, You can definitely merge the calendars! When selecting which calendar to include on the right hand side of the screen in Sites, just select the boxes for all of the Google Classroom calendars you want included, and they will all show up in a single place.
Thank you so very much! This is exactly what I needed. One question on use in the classroom: Do you have a separate site for each section of the same class? If not, how does the links take students to the right section in Google Classroom?
Hi Nancy, no, I would definitely not recommend making more than one site. If you have different classes with different assignments, you can create separate assignment pages. If it's the different classes with the same assignments, I would suggest just one larger Google Classroom so you can create all links back there.
This was perfect to get me started! We are using Sites to create student passports to document their progress toward college/career goals. How would I get each student his/her own copy of my “master site” to showcase their work & add their own milestones?
Hi Catherine, Great to hear! Unfortunately you can't give students selective access to Sites, meaning that if you give them editing access for showcasing their work, they'll be able to edit anything. For that reason when I've given students access, I only do so for a short window of time. Now, I just take care of posting their projects myself to avoid anything getting lost while numerous students are in posting at once.
Another option would be to have them great an entirely separate site that they have full editing access to and then just create links out to their personal pages through your main class site. Hope that helps!
Your video was great
and useful
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Your explanations are clear and easy to follow! Now I am going to create a website for my classes. I teach three different ELA grades: 6th, 7th and 8th. Should I make a separate website for each class since they will each have different assignments and activities?
Hi Jennifer, I'd highly recommend you just make one website. That's enough to have to deal with managing, let alone multiple ones. Just create different pages for each class, and then subpages for the different material you want to include for those classes.
Thanks for osm knowledge....:)
You're welcome, Mayur!
Your videos are great!
How do I add the calendar if I have multiple google classrooms for different class periods?
Thanks! You should be able to to integrate any of the calendars you own/subscribe to
Hi Sam, I have been watching all your videos. This one was helpful for designing my website but since I teach elementary I want to be able for student to click from each subject back to the home page. I found a "home" icon but how do I think the pages? Thanks.
Hi Karen,
Sorry about the long delay in responding! There should already be an auto-generate home icon on the top left-hand side of the screen that students can click on to get back to the home page. The linking should also already be set up to always go back to the home page when they click on it.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!
You're welcome!
Once you create a new copy of your google classroom in the second year, do you have to go into your site to change all the URLs? and is there a trick to streamlining year-to-year setups like this?
Sam, great content! Love your videos! Question (this just came up in a discussion with a colleague)--I love the idea of linking directly to a Google Classroom assignment, but doesn't it just link to the assignment in ONE Google Classroom? In other words, if I teach four sections of 8th grade US history, and I link to the Google Classroom assignment from my Period 1 class, it won't do any good for any of my other history classes, right?
Hi Ron, thanks so much! That's correct, you can only link to one GC at a time. Do you have to have separate Google Classrooms since it's the same subject? If you're posting the exact same assignments to each one, I'd consider consolidating and then you won't have a problem with your Site.
The other option would be to create subpages for each section in Sites, but that seems like a lot to me. Either way there are trade-offs, but to me having all students in one GC is the lesser of the annoyances.
Thanks so much
You're welcome, Dagny!
Hi Sam! Thank you for stretching our practice into sometimes feels like the great unknown, lol. I have a question about setting up a website with Google Sites- my school district also has a LMS (insanely basic) and I want to make sure the two can speak to each other. Is this possible?
Hi Shilise, As long as you have access to Google Edu, your Google Site will integrate with all of your Google Suite products. Many LMSs also integrate with Google, but you'll need to verify!
So helpful, thank you! I do have a question: when you create the copy for the students to write on (ie the graphic organizer in the video), where does it go when they are done? Will it connect back to Google Classroom? Will it appear in my Google Drive? Do students need to somehow submit it to me so that I can see their work? Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Hi Justi,
So sorry for the long delay in responding here. The only way for the individual graphic organizers to show up in your Drive will be for you to push them out as individual assignments through Google Classroom, which is definitely an option. You could also teach students how to share their documents back with you, but that obviously comes with logistical complications.
I will be watching more of your videos! This was very helpful! I will be teaching 4 classes of the same subject and am familiar with Google Classroom so I'm more inclined to do most of my posting there. Could the "site" be used for general information on the course, about the teacher, and more for parent info? There are definitely a lot of options. Then I see the Bitmoji Classroom craze and I can see how that would appeal to students, but I don't know where that would fit into the whole picture. I don't want to make it more confusing for parents and students. Also, our school uses Schoology and PowerSchool. I don't like Schoology as well as Google Classroom so last year I mostly just used Schoology to post a link to my Google Classroom. HELP - so many platforms!
Hi Kathleen, Thanks so much for your positive feedback and for your support!
At this point I'd definitely recommend keeping it as simple, clean, and clear as possible. I consider a class website to be a step-up from just using Classroom in terms of difficulty, and think it's totally okay to just run everything out of Google Classroom!
Do you have a separate webpage for each section that you teach? I’m just wondering how I would link from a slideshow to a Google classroom assignment, for multiple sections.
I'd definitely only make one website: that's enough to manage! Create subpages for different classes/sections and then link out to assignments from there.
I love this! We work in teams at our junior high, so if we each use something designed like this for our subject, it should make navigating Google much easier for our students (currently, we all use Classroom but tend to set them up differently). I have a question about the class calendar. I saw that you had a Google Sheet with assignments (?) that you converted to a calendar (?). Is there a tutorial on how to do this?
Hi Susan, thanks for your feedback! You don't need to create a Sheet with assignments. As long as you've created a Google Classroom with the same email you created your Google Sites with, you'll see the Classroom calendar show up as an option when embedding the calendar in Sites.
Hi Sam. I'm an educator in Guyana. I've been working on integrating learning technology into my classroom. I'm still learning. I'd like to be able to access the free teacher version of loom, Nearpod and a few others because I know they're being offered free to educators. My school doesn't have a district nor school edu. website. Will this method work or do I have to create one? I'm really wondering how to go about creating a school website that I can use to gain full access to this powerful learning platforms. Idk if you can help me out.
I'm on my way!
You've got this, Tasha!!
Fantastic and so easy to follow! Question - what is your suggestion if I teach different classes (subject areas)? Is there a way to make different sections for each class within the ONE Google site, or do I need to create a different Google site for each separate class? Thanks!
Hi Kristen,
Sorry for the long delay in responding here. I would definitely only set up one Site and then make subpages to represent each class. You could have separate assignment subpages and separate Calendar pages under each course subpage, if that makes sense.
thank you! I didn't know this was possible! If you have any tips on how to organize multiple grade levels or leveled groups for special ed. using Google that would be great! I normally have 3 different reading and math levels, then one social studies and one science.
You're welcome, and sorry for the long delay in responding! I would set up one Site and then create subpages for each of the different main classes, or in this case, levels. Then you could have different pathways set up within your site for students to visit depending on which group they were in. Best of luck!
Thanks for the useful tutorial about using the new Google Sites to create a class webpage. Two Questions: 1. Once it's set up, about how much extra time would I need to keep my classroom website updated with all materials and assignments from Google Classroom? (I'm trying to figure out if the extra effort and time will be worth it for my MS Humanities students.) 2. Should multiple sections of the same course each have their own site, or just their own pages on a common site? Thanks in advance.
Hi Jennifer, It shouldn't take too much extra time, though it will require an additional step other than putting the assignment in Google Classroom. I'd definitely stay away from creating more than one site though: one is enough to maintain! Rather than creating separate Sites, I'd recommend creating separate subpages for each of your classes.
Thanks
You're welcome!