Class Website Template for Google Sites

This download is for a classroom website template on the Google Sites platform. The theme of this template is The Cute Classroom. Class websites are the 21st century digital substitutes for parent handbooks and back-to-school information booklets! Show that you are capable of managing distance learning by having your own website! Unlike printables, online information can be updated or modified whenever you want. This website will exist in your Google Drive where you can modify it as you like. Just add your text, press the publish button and you're ready to share the url with parents! You can watch the YouTube video preview in high definition here: https://youtu.be/eQW21PvdLb8

The download includes:

1. A Google Sites class website template with pages, headers, and text boxes
2. Access to a tutorials website with text and video instructions custom to your template
3. 50+ newsletter templates in Google Slides to integrate into your website

How does this download work?

1. You download the product, a one-page document with instructions to the URL.
2. Go to the URL and make a copy of the contents to your drive. The file(s) will be in your Google My Drive.
3. Modify your new site by adding text, images, or Google Drive files. Tutorials included.
4. Press the Publish button. You're ready to share with parents!

This download requires that you have a Google Gmail account in order to transfer the template into your Google Drive.

Template Qualities:

• Easy to use - everything is laid out for you, it just needs you to add detailed text
• Customizable - change any of the content and customize the design such as the banners, colors, fonts, url, etc.
• Comes with a URL you can personalize-- URL example: sites.google.com/view/YourWebsiteName
• Modern - uses quality photographs and sleek designs
• Smart - transforms and adapts itself to visitor's screen sizes
• Easy to navigate - has a menu bar and dropdown menu to help visitors hop around your site
• Google-tastic - integrated into your Google Drive for easy access to all your Google Docs

This template comes with five main pages and fourteen subpages. You can modify, hide, or delete these pages or its content any time. Template webpages:

1) Home

2) About

• Schedule
• Class Policies
• Meet the Teacher

3) Areas of Study

• Homework
• Reading
• Writing
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Technology
• P.E.
• Art
• Music
• After School

4) Resources

5) Contact

Website Tutorials topics:

Video: How to get to your Google Sites template

Text: How to get to your Google Sites template

Video: Template overview

Video: Insert text, arrange it on the page, and create a hyperlink

Text: Insert text box

Text: Hyperlink

Text: Rearrange items

Video: Insert, resize, and rearrange images

Text: Insert images

Video: Insert items from your Google Drive

Text: Insert from Google Drive

Video: Add, modify, hide, and delete pages and subpages

Text: Add a page

Text: Add a subpage or modify, hide, and delete pages

Text: Change page banner images

Video: Change the theme

Text: Change theme

Video: Choose your url, publish, and view publish settings

Text: Choose your url and publish

Video: Remove others from accessing your site

Text: Remove others from accessing your site

Text: 3 Tips for making a website helpful to parents.

Text: 3 Tips for making a user-friendly website

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Terms of Use:

Please visit my web page for the Terms of Use.

About

I developed this template based on my past experiences as a teacher who created sites for other teachers. Many teachers want to have their own class website but struggle to find the time to get something started. To address this, I chose Google Sites as the template host because its latest version comes with an incredibly intuitive interface. You can use it as-is or customize it to reflect your personality. You can also integrate Google Drive files into it, so that's a huge plus!

I have taught people from as young as age 9 in my self-contained classroom to adult students in a college of Education on how to create websites and structure information logically online. This template includes many elements that I used to communicate to parents in my past classrooms. I hope that this will serve you well during the school year. Thank you for looking!