What’s changing
Earlier this year, practice sets became generally available, allowing educators to transform new and existing content into engaging and interactive assignments. With autograding built in, teachers can receive performance insights and snapshots into student progress, and students get real-time feedback as they complete practice sets.
Currently in practice sets, when a teacher selects a skill for a problem, resources are activated for the student. The students see a lightbulb next to that problem and a resource tray for “extra help” appears.
To improve upon this experience, we’re excited to announce an update that gives teachers more control over the resources for students in practice sets. Specially, teachers can now:
- More easily review the resources before they assign to their students
- Add built-in support for their students by removing or adding their own resources
- Include text-based hints and YouTube videos that are tailored to their students’ needs
- Control the order in which resources are provided to their students (what appears first, second, and third)
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users
Why it matters
This update gives teachers more control over student resources and enables teachers to tailor the support their students receive within practice sets.
Getting started
- Admins: Practice sets are enabled by default, but admins need to add teachers to the verified teacher group in order for them to receive a shared practice set from other teachers in their Google Workspace.
- End users:
- For teachers to access practice sets, go to Google Classroom > Practice sets > Create (or practicesets.classroom.google.com).
- To manage light bulb resources for students in a practice set, navigate to the bottom of the problem > enter a skill or select a suggested skill > select the drop down button for resources on the right > click the "+" symbol and select hint > enter hint > save the hint.
- Rearrange the order of the resources by moving the boxes around.
- Remove a resource by clicking the “X” in the upper right corner.
- To manage extra help resources for students in a practice set, navigate to the top right corner of the page > click on extra help > click to "+" symbol to add resources or rearrange/delete suggested resources that may have been added based on the skills you selected.
- For students to access a practice set, they need to be assigned a practice set by a teacher.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about Practice sets.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on August 7, 2023
Availability
- Available to Google Workspace for Education Plus and Google Workspace for Education Teaching and Learning Upgrade