If you left in document comments, the comments are invisible to viewers. Clicking “Return” in Google Classroom releases the score in Classroom and returns ownership of the documents to the students. Just like when we had paper assignments we would give back the papers to the students after we graded them, we need to do this with digital work. As soon as they click “Turn in” Google Classroom changes the sharing permissions to make the teacher the owner of the document and the student is a viewer of the document. Students can not see each others work.Ĭlicking Turn in changes the sharing permissions. Again, this assignment folder is only visible by the teacher. This file that is submitted to Google Classroom is organized into the assignment folder. As soon as a file is added by a student to an assignment Google Classroom sets the sharing permissions to give the teacher edit access. Students do not need to click “Turn in” to give the teacher access to the files they submit. Want More Help with This? Become a Premium Member

Since the Google Classroom class folder is a regular folder in Google Drive, you can organize it however it makes sense to you. This is good because teachers and students can put files associated with the class into the class folder to keep organized. If a student adds files to their class folder in Google Drive, the files are NOT visible to the teacher or classmates. If a teacher adds files to the class folder in Google Drive, these files are NOT visible to the students. The class folder in Google Drive for the teacher and the student has the same name but is NOT the same folder. This however, opens up different folders.

On the Classwork page in Google Classroom is a link that says “Class folder.” However, the teacher has this and the students have this. If you are a student, a folder will be created in Google Drive for each class you are enrolled in. Within the Classroom folder a folder will be created for each class that you teach.

Classwork folder