Personalizing Google Classroom

Google Classroom comes with many stock photographs and designs to use as your background header, but with a little bit of Googling, you can find a much more appropriate image to use. I think it's nice to make the class home page unique. And it's super-easy, too.

Use Google Images Search (or just plain Google and then click on Images) to find a picture that would make an appropriate background for your class heading. Save it by right-clicking and choosing "Save image as..."

Go to Google Classroom and choose the class.

On the bottom right-hand corner of the header picture, click Upload photo

Click Select a photo from your computer.

Select the picture you downloaded.

Use the little super-imposed window to choose the slice of the picture you want to display. 

You can drag the corners of the window to take a bigger or smaller slice. 
Click "Select class theme."

It may take a little practice to position the window so you get exactly the section of the picture you wish. If it doesn't look good, just try again!

Here are a few samples that I found for my own pages this year.