As much as I am a huge fan of Google Classroom it always had one pretty significant drawback. The drawback was that all of a class got the same assignment when assigning documents,readings and worksheets. I also got asked whether we could assign differentiated assignments with it more than any other question. I am happy to see that they just added the ability to send an assignment to a subset of a class. It's not perfect yet but it is certainly a huge step in the right direction.
Here are some quick directions for assigning differentiated assignments.
When making an assignment in Google classroom. There is now a drop down menu 'All students' in the upper left hand corner. See screen shot below:
If you click on it the names of the students in the class will drop down. See screen shot below and you can unclick the ones you don't want to get the assignment. See screen shot below.
Attaching docuemnts and creating the assignment is the same as it ever was. The only downside is that you will have to post once for each version of the assignment you have and pick out individual students.
Differentiation was the major item that Google classroom was missing. It can be done through Doctopus too but its a little more complicated.
