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Organization is huge for Google Classroom - both for you and your students.  The use of Topics not only helps you organize course material, but gives you the power to share any section directly with students.   Teachers will need to decide HOW they want to use Topics as there are multiple ways they can be used.  A couple examples:  1. Using topics to organize by week -  2. Using topics to organize by content (eg. a unit or project) - Notice in the week example, the current week is on top.  This is because you can re-order your topics at any time - either by drag & drop or by clicking on the More menu (3 stacked dots) to to right of the topic name and selecting Move up or Move down -  There are 2 ways to create topics.  1. by choosing Topic under the Create button 2. by creating a Topic when assigning it to an Assignment, Quiz, Question or Material  A very cool thing about Topics: each topical area has its own unique URL.  This m...

One of the hardest concepts when transitioning people to Google Mail from a software-based email application is the idea that all mail is "in" one location.  In thinking of email in a traditional sense (like snail mail), we think of sorting it "to" locations.  It is in the inbox, in the trash, in a folder, etc. When using Google Mail in the web, all your mail is in one location (I think of it as being a junk room full of my email).  Instead of organizing the emails "into" folders, we actually are tagging emails to make them easier to find (think of it as putting stickie notes on them).  This gives us great flexibility as emails can have multiple stickie notes on them - and I do not have to remember "where" I put them!  An example - an email in my inbox has a tag of "unread" (which makes it bold) and Inbox (so it appears when I click on Inbox). This brings us to labels - these are the tags we want to create and assign to our emails. ...