Build Your Classroom
All-in-One Career Foundations Couse
Single Class
For schools wanting a centralized career readiness hub where a student works through every single program, create one Master Career Foundations Classroom and create a Topic for each program.
Based on your unique school programs, decide whether to build a single Career Foundations Google Classroom Class or an individual Class for each program. Then explore the rest of our guide for best practices and considerations.
Program-Specific Courses
Multiple Classes
For schools where different programs are taught by different teachers, or during separate semesters/or terms, create an individual Master Classroom for each Career Foundations program, with units for Topics.
Coordinators and Adminitrators
Create master Career Foundations courses to provide for your teachers and publish using one of the two methods here, depending on your school’s Google account.
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If your district uses Google Workspace for Education Standard or Plus, you can use the native Classwork Sharing Feature. Go to your Master Class, click Classwork, look for the Share classwork button at the top right, turn it on, and copy the link.
Why it’s great: You simply email this link to your teachers. They get a clean, read-only preview of your master layout and can instantly pull the assignments directly into their active student rosters.
Even better: if you update a resource link in the master template mid-year, the fix updates live for anyone viewing your shared link.
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If your district uses the standard free tier of Google Workspace, you can easily Copy a Class. Invite your program teachers into your Master Blueprint class as Co-teachers. Instruct them to head to their main Google Classroom home dashboard, click the three vertical dots on the Master Class card, and select Copy.
Why it’s great: It works perfectly on every single version of Google Classroom. It generates a fresh duplicate of your entire structure, topics, and draft assignments straight onto the teacher's personal account. Keep in mind that once a teacher copies the class, it becomes independent. Future edits you make to the master copy won't sync to them automatically.
Digital Workbook Pages
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For classrooms that already have a PDF editor extension installed on student Chromebooks or laptops.
This is the most seamless digital option because it allows students to treat the PDF like a live digital canvas without leaving the web browser.
The Classroom Setup
Head to your program's curriculum page and find the Google Classroom Asset Kit to open your shared Drive folder.
In Google Classroom, go to the Classwork tab, click Create, and select Assignment.
Click the Google Drive icon, select the fillable lesson PDF from your asset folder, and set the permissions dropdown to Make a copy for each student.
The Student Perspective
Accessing: The student opens the assignment in Google Classroom and clicks their personal copy of the PDF.
Completing: Instead of staring at the static Google preview screen, they look at the top of the browser window, click Open With, and choose their school’s preferred extension (like Kami or DocHub). This unlocks the interactive text fields. They can now click inside the boxes and type their responses.
Submitting: Because these extensions integrate directly with Google Workspace, students can click a native Turn In or Save to Classroom button located right inside the extension toolbar. The file syncs back to you instantly.
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For classrooms that don't have PDF extensions but still want to store master files inside their Google Drive ecosystem.
This route uses native Google features but relies on standard saving habits that high schoolers should practice for the workforce.
The Classroom Setup
In the Classwork tab, create a new Assignment.
Attach the fillable worksheet directly from your shared Drive Asset Kit folder, found on the curriculum page of your program.
Change the attachment dropdown menu settings to "Make a copy for each student."
The Student Perspective
Accessing: The student opens the assignment and clicks on their designated copy of the PDF.
Completing: Knowing they can't type on the static preview screen, they click the Download icon (the little downward arrow) in the top right corner. They must select the option to download the file with changes/editable. They open the downloaded file on their device (which will open in the native Chrome browser reader or Adobe Reader) and type in their responses.
Submitting: Once finished, the student saves the document to their device. They return to the Google Classroom assignment page, click the Add or create button, select File, upload their newly saved, completed PDF, and click Turn In.
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For classrooms that want to completely bypass Google Drive file bloat and guarantee students always pull their assignments directly from the Career Foundations website.
Instead of attaching a file from a Drive folder, you provide a web link. Clicking this link automatically triggers a file download for the student.
The Classroom Setup
Navigate to your program’s curriculum page on the Career Foundations website.
Right-click the document link or button for the worksheet you want to assign and select Copy link address.
In Google Classroom, click Create > Assignment. Instead of clicking the Drive icon, click the Link icon (paperclip) and paste the direct website URL.
The Student Perspective
Accessing: The student opens the assignment and clicks the web link. Because the link points directly to the server asset, it bypasses the static Google Drive preview screen entirely and instantly prompts their device to download the file or opens it as a live web page.
Completing: The student opens the freshly downloaded PDF on their device and types their answers directly into the interactive form fields.
Submitting: The student saves their completed document. They head back to Google Classroom, click Add or create > File, upload their file from their local downloads folder, and click Turn In.
Additional Resources
Don’t forget to include any supplemental resources from your lessons in your Google Classroom assignments. Find resources including video libraries, presentation slide decks, and more at career-foundations.com/resources.
Navigate to each program’s curriculum page to download your Google Classroom assets.
