- Teachers now have access to a toggle switch in Stream to hide or show deleted items.
- This would have been extremely valuable to me when I accidentally deleted an assignment in Classroom. I had to create another version of the assignment, which lead to multiple copies of assignment sheets and lots of confusion.
- There are additional functions within the "Student" page. At the top of the page you can change permissions to allow students to comment in Classroom or to prevent all, or a few, students from commenting. It is labelled as muting students. If only this worked in the physical world as well.
- You can now also send group emails by clicking the check box beside the students for whom you want the message sent and selecting "email" from the drop-down menu.
- Document permissions have also changed. If you create a document in a Google app and want to share, you now need to click on "Advanced" to change general permissions.
- Within this menu, you can be even more selective and allow certain Classrooms editing privileges whereas other Classrooms may only have commenting or viewing privileges.
- I am very excited about this change. With two sections of grade 12 English I can have students from one class comment on work created in the other without the fear of things being changed or deleted. More to come on this.
- The only downside to the change in privileges is it does add another step if you just want to make a document editable or comment-able to all students.
More than anything, it is great to see that Google is following through on their promise to roll out more features are they become available.
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