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Google Classroom Deep Dive: The New Homepage, Notebooks, and GemsGoogle Classroom Deep Dive: The New Homepage, Notebooks, and Gems
#254: Google Classroom got a whole lot of updates this summer, and in episode 253 I promised I'd come back and go deeper. This is that episode. I'm walking through the redesigned homepage, how to build and assign a Gemini Notebook or a Gem right from Classwork, the new AI rubric generation, and the learning goals tracking that quietly showed up in your gradebook. Plus the honest caveats: what your admin has to turn on, and what you can't see about how your students are using AI.
In this episode, you'll learn:
What actually changed on the new Classroom homepage, and why yours may look…
The skinny
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