Overview
Google Classroom: A Digital Class Act for Seamless Learning
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Popular Features
- Assignments (52)8.383%
- Mobile friendly (51)7.878%
- Social learning (46)7.878%
- Course authoring (45)7.575%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Education Fundamentals
$0
Google Workspace for Education Standard
$3
Teaching and Learning Upgrade
$4
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
DEMO TO UPLOAD ANSWER PAPER IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Using Google Classroom - Demo - Part 2 | Ep.13 | Don't Memorise
Connecting BookWidgets with Google Classroom - demo video
Google Classroom - A Brief Demo
5 How to Join Google Classroom with a Code [Student and Teacher Duo Demo]
Google Classroom Basics Demo
Features
Learning Management
Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.
- 7.5Course authoring(45) Ratings
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
- 7.5Course catalog or library(36) Ratings
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
- 8.2Player/Portal(34) Ratings
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
- 8Learning content(38) Ratings
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
- 7.8Mobile friendly(51) Ratings
Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.
- 7.4Progress tracking & certifications(40) Ratings
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
- 8.3Assignments(52) Ratings
Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.
- 7.3Compliance management(29) Ratings
Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.
- 7.6Learning administration(40) Ratings
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
- 7.6Learning reporting & analytics(37) Ratings
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
- 7.8Social learning(46) Ratings
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
- 6.9Gamification(5) Ratings
Presents course material in a game-like format to increase engagement and enjoyment.
- 8.5Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning(7) Ratings
Utilizes SSO technology to ease the login process for users.
Product Details
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What is Google Classroom?
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Google Classroom Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-4 of 4)Not a proper learning management system
- The system is relatively easy to begin with.
- It is integrated with Google Drive and Google Docs, which makes recycling relatively easy.
- It is platform-independent.
- It is relatively speedy.
- Tests and quizzes (in my experience) are primitive and do not allow modern testing techniques involving IRT.
- Recycling of materials is, at best, counterintuitive.
- Formation of subgroups is difficult.
In the system I am experienced with (as an instructor and an observing administrator), student users have too much control over their own accounts, so that it is sometimes not clear who particular students are or, indeed, if they are supposed to be in the class or not. For schools and internal training programs in which the identity of participants is known beforehand, almost any other learning management system would be a better choice.
For simple sharing of documents, primitive tests, and collecting information from and distributing information to people, Google Classroom is adequate.
- Familiarity of Google interfaces.
- Off-site computing.
- Off-site storage.
- Course authoring
- 20%2.0
- Course catalog or library
- 30%3.0
- Player/Portal
- 50%5.0
- Learning content
- 30%3.0
- Mobile friendly
- 70%7.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 10%1.0
- Assignments
- 30%3.0
- Learning administration
- 20%2.0
- Learning reporting & analytics
- 20%2.0
- Social learning
- 40%4.0
- It takes less effort to maintain than a real learning management system.
- Unless strict controls of numbers of submissions are imposed, homework management becomes difficult for groups of more than 4 or 5.
- The integrated mailing system is primitive.
Provided one has the servers to use it and an administrator to run it, Moodle is superior in nearly every respect, particularly security, testing, and analytics.
- Remote learning as a substitute for traditional in-person learning.
- Instructor and staff training.
- Document repository.
- Administrators are able to control some information for instructors without the instructors' knowledge.
- Students have made multiple accounts, inflating enrollment.
- Users are able to set interfaces to different languages.
- Locked student accounts.
- Materials distribution.
- Asynchronous meetings.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Don't know
- I was not privy to implementation phases.
- The invitation system would be easy to use in some circumstances.
- Integration with other Google products is useful.
- The multiplicity of interface languages is useful.
- Reuse of Google Forms, the basis for tests, is cumbersome and counterintuitive.
- Attendance management is difficult because of the control users can have over their names.
- Testing, particularly with automated scoring beyond simple multiple choice, seems impossible.
Manage Your Students with Google Classroom
- Seamless integration with Google Drive. Easy for teachers to attach Gsuite files such as docs, slides, sheets, forms, site to enhance the learning.
- Manage student work submissions and whether they are on time or late. Students submit their work digitally and teachers can track the submissions, send them back for editing, or award points.
- Streamline classwork and homework assignments into one simple thread. Much like a social media platform like Twitter or Facebook, Google Classroom has everything top-down in one fluid thread for students and teachers to be able to easily find and access.
- Integration with other edtech tools such as Pear Deck, Edpuzzle, etc. Teachers can link to outside assignments on other programs they often use in their classrooms with their students.
- Although usually in the discussion with other LMS apps such as Schoology and Canvas, Google Classroom doesn't possess as in-depth of a platform. There is no ability to set individual learning paths, pace student work with completion settings, or embed other apps directly into teacher-created assignments.
- The assignment creation options are limited. Teachers can only choose from creating an assignment (usually a link with directions), a material (usually a doc/slide/website, etc), a question, and a quiz.
- With gamification taking on a new lens in education, there really isn't any way to use gamification elements with Google Classroom. There isn't any way to create Individual learning paths, or use badges and micro-credentials within Classroom. Outside programs would have to be used.
- Course authoring
- 80%8.0
- Course catalog or library
- 70%7.0
- Player/Portal
- N/AN/A
- Learning content
- 80%8.0
- Mobile friendly
- 90%9.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 80%8.0
- Assignments
- 80%8.0
- Compliance management
- N/AN/A
- Learning administration
- N/AN/A
- Learning reporting & analytics
- 90%9.0
- Social learning
- 80%8.0
- Overall, Google Classroom has afforded my students a place to better manage their digital selves and stay on task. This is something that holds a lot of weight in the special education or resources level classroom, as these students have a tendency to fall behind or lose track of work. Students seem to submit more work and not lose physical copies in backpacks.
- I have personally seen a change in student writing when I taught HS English. Because of the constant feedback, and ability to be able to open student writing assignments at any time, I was able to offer constructive feedback more often and not get bogged down to review every students' final essay at the same time. I was able to provide feedback as the student work trickled in.
- For students, Google Classroom allowed them to have more opportunity to review things at home as all of the document and in-class materials could be found online at any time.
- Creating Assignments
- Establishing a Class
- Joining students to your class
- Rearranging assignments/materials
- No gradebook
- Limited collaborative options within Classroom
Change it up with Google Classroom
- Provides an online space to organize student materials.
- Allows us to have multiple sections setup in one place.
- We can access Google Classroom on any network we are on.
- It feels like something is always changing as they improve Google Classroom.
- It would be great to be able to import grades straight into our grade book. We are able to download the grades, but then have to enter them by hand into the other program.
- Students are not able to make edits or quick changes on assignments once they are turned in unless they first grade book the assignment. It would be great to have a feature that allowed them to edit after it is turned in.
- Course authoring
- 80%8.0
- Course catalog or library
- N/AN/A
- Player/Portal
- N/AN/A
- Learning content
- N/AN/A
- Mobile friendly
- 100%10.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 90%9.0
- Assignments
- 90%9.0
- Compliance management
- N/AN/A
- Learning administration
- 90%9.0
- Learning reporting & analytics
- 90%9.0
- Social learning
- 90%9.0
- Teachers have been thrilled with having fewer papers that they need to bring to and from school for grading.
- Students who are absent or on school trips are able to stay caught up with their assignments.
- Students enjoy more flexibility in completing assignments and some like to work ahead if they have already completed current assignments.
- Canvas
- Student Achievement
- Teacher Workload
- Price
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- It is easy to upload assignments and documents into Google Classroom.
- It is easy for our students to access Google Classroom.
Googliness at SJP
- Provide digital worksheets and rubrics for assignments
- Deliver announcements and email updates with important reminders
- I sync it with my calendar, so I am able to mange upcoming events/projects.
- Google classroom is best paired with Google Drive. I wish that it helped students stay better organized by scaffolding the folders and assignments more effectively. It would be nice if teachers could create units within their posts.
- The linear stream feed makes it difficult for students to search for assignments. A "search option" would be beneficial. It would also be nice if there was a way to organize posts by month or week, so that they were easier to find when looking back.
- Students cannot see comments written on digital google doc submissions even when they are returned. This means I use Google Classroom exclusively for homework, and do not have essays/digital feedback for students. This is a big hinderance.
- Positive: I don't have to have paper assignments, and I can grade remotely any time I want
- Negative: I wish you could sort through digital submissions by student name, as well as by assignment.
- Negative: I wish there was a notification when students submitted late homework.
- Using school gmail accounts works really well with Google Classroom.
- Google Drive syncs effortlessly.
- Reusing and reposting assignments was a great update.
- Inability to make readable comments on Google Docs
- Inability to search posts.
- Inability to sort assignments by student instead of by assignment
- Lack of notification for late submissions