Create and manage Guided Learning activities in Classroom

This article is for teachers with a Google Workspace for Education account.

You can create a Guided Learning activity as part of a Google Classroom assignment. Guided Learning acts as a personal AI tutor that uses your uploaded class materials to help students work through complex concepts. It will ask guiding questions and offer hints, rather than defaulting to providing direct answers. Learn more about Guided Learning and ways to bring Guided Learning into your daily instruction here.

Important:

• Your admin must enable access to the Gemini App for you to create a Guided Learning activity and review Insights.
• In order to interact with an assigned Guided Learning activity, students must also have admin-enabled access to the Gemini App.
  • Tip: If your admin has turned off access to the Gemini App for all students in a class, you will see a notice, but can still create a Guided Learning activity. If only some students have access, you can view which students do not have access by clicking View Students. Contact your admin for assistance. Learn how to find your administrator.
• If you’re not sure which AI tool to use for your lesson plan, visit the guide to teacher-led AI tools in Classroom to choose the tool that best fits your instructional goals.

Create a Guided Learning activity

1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
2. Select a class.
3. Click Classwork Create Assignment.
4. Under "Attach," select Guided Learning.
5. In the pop-up, enter a name for the activity.
6. Click Select from class or Upload file to add a source (such as Docs, Slides, or PDFs) to give context to the AI assistant.

   Tip: Create your assignment with 1 source to get the best product experience. However, you can add up to 5 sources.

   Note: Your students must have access to all sources you choose to upload.

7. Click Create and preview.

   Tip: In the preview tab, you can test the student experience before assigning it.

   Note: You’ll need to complete Gemini onboarding to proceed, if you haven’t already done so.

8. In the Instructions section of the Assignment draft, you can optionally share directions for students on how to complete the activity, just like with any other assignment.

   1. Note: Instructions are for students, and will not be referenced by Gemini in the Guided Learning activity.

9. Return to the Classroom tab, update your assignment settings, and click Assign.

Tip: Guided Learning in Classroom connects with Class Tools, so you can easily share and lock learning resources to students' ChromeOS devices.

Note: Students can only access their assigned Guided Learning conversations from the Classwork tab in Classroom. Students’ conversation history with a Guided Learning activity assigned by you is not available in the Gemini app.

Review Guided Learning insights & chat transcripts

Note: Guided Learning insights are available to teachers on all Google Workspace for Education editions.

Insight summaries give educators a view into how students interact with an assigned Guided Learning activity to help inform instruction and lesson planning. This includes a sample of common themes, such as potential areas to support or common questions for the whole class and individual students.

Open Guided Learning insights

1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
2. Select your class, then click the Classwork tab.
3. Access insights from one of these entry points:
   • Under "Class learning tools" at the top of the Classwork page, locate the assigned Guided Learning activity and click View more next to "Insights."
   • On an expanded classwork card, click the Insights button below the Guided Learning activity attachment.
   • On the student work page, click the Insights button.

Review class insights

1. On the Insights page, review the class overview:
   • Usage information: Review the engagement status, including how many students have opened or started conversations with a Guided Learning activity.
   • Class insights: Review generated insight summaries for the class:
     • Overall summary: Highlights the primary ways students interacted with the Guided Learning activity.
     • Insight themes: Provides a sample of common themes from student interactions, such as potential areas to support, areas of strength and common questions. Click View details next to a topic to review a sample of student questions and view full transcripts from assigned Guided Learning activities.

Review individual student insights and transcripts

Important: Transcripts are only available when Gemini activity is on.

1. From the Insights page, navigate to the student list on the left.
2. Click a student's name.
3. Review the student's usage information:
   • Status: Displays engagement status (such as "Opened” or “Started a conversation").
   • Last opened: The date the student last accessed the Guided Learning activity.
   • Conversations: Click to view the chat transcript of the assigned Guided Learning activity.

     Tip: Click Email student at the top right of the card to communicate with a student about their assignment .

4. Under Student insights, review the student's:
   • Overall summary: Highlights the student’s primary activities.
   • Insight themes: Provides a sample of relevant themes, such as areas to support and areas of strength
5. Under “Insight themes”, click View details to open the complete conversation transcript in a dialog window.

Understand how Insights work in Guided Learning

• Teachers can only view insights and chat transcripts for Guided Learning assigned through Google Classroom. Student interactions with Gemini not assigned by their teacher, including chats created by students, will not be visible to teachers.
• Insights are generated by AI and can make mistakes. Insights are intended as an aid and are not intended for assessment or placement. Always review and double-check summaries against student work and chat transcripts to ensure accuracy.
• If an admin allows students to delete their chat history in Guided Learning, deleted chats will no longer appear in the teacher’s chat transcripts view. Contact your admin to control temporary chats and chat deletion in the Gemini App.
• Insights summaries have usage limits designed to ensure an optimal experience. If the student conversations exceed those limits, insight summaries will not be generated, but you can still view the chat transcripts. If you reach the limit, consider assigning the activity to smaller groups of students or reducing the number of prompts.
• If your Google Workspace administrator has been designated with access to the Visit a class tool, they can temporarily access insight summaries during their visit. Insight summaries are not aggregated across multiple classes. Learn more about visiting a class as an education leader or staff.

Manage your Guided Learning assignments

• Attaching: When you attach a Guided Learning activity to a Classroom post, it’s automatically shared with your students.
• Deleting a post: When you delete a Classroom post that has a Guided Learning activity, it removes student access to the activity, but does not delete the student's past conversations.
• Reuse and Sharing: You can save time by reusing your Guided Learning assignments across classes.
  • If you create a new class using Class Copy, new copies are created of any attached Guided Learning activities in the new class.
  • Tip: When you copy a class or material that has a Guided Learning activity, the activity itself is duplicated.

Related resources

• Guide to teacher-led AI tools in Classroom
• Learn about Gemini in Google Classroom
• Create and assign Gemini Notebook & Gems in Google Classroom