The new Google Sites is one of the best platforms where you can easily create a site for your classroom without the need for any HTM, CSS or any other coding language. Everything is pre-designed and you simply select the sections you want to add to your site, add content, and share your site with others.
As more and more of teachers and educators are making the transition to remote teaching because of the current pandemic, creating an online site for your class becomes a pressing necessity. There are multiple ways to use your classroom site. For instance, you can use it to share learning materials with your students, share important announcements, invite students to be co-editors of the site, share students work with school community, create ePortfolios, and many more.
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To help you make the best of Google Sites in your instruction, we spent some time going through the resources in Sites Help center and pulled out for you the guidelines below. The purpose is to provide you with a handy resource where you can readily access almost everything you need to create a professional looking site for your class.
1- How to create a website using the new Google Sites
- Create a Site
- Rename your site
- Add a title to your site
- Add texts and headings to your site
- Add collapsible text boxes to your site
- Add a section layout
- Add a button
- Add and edit images, logos, favicon, etc.
- Group and ungroup objects
- Add a page to your site
- Add a table of contents
- Organize your pages (e.g., how to move a page, choose a homepage, hide a page, etc)
- Add and edit headers and footers
- Add a banner
- Edit banner text
- Customise banner colour
- Link your banner to other pages
- Choose where banner appears
- Add google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms and Charts to your site
- Add YouTube videos, calendars and maps
- Add a file from your computer, Google Drive, or from another site
- Add Google files, tables and other content
- Add an editor
- Change who can edit your site
- Limit what editors can change
- Remove and editor
- Change the site owner
- Invite others to edit your site
- Change who can see a page
- Preview your site
- Publish your site
- Choose who can see your site
- Search a Google site
- Disable or enable anchor links