The ideal platform for organizing and managing a virtual classroom.
As a training assistant, I use Google Classroom to deliver courses and organize them in order to help students better manage their classes …
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April 18, 2021
Not a proper learning management system
Score 2 out of 10
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When the COVID-19 crisis began, one of the institutions I work with began using Google Classroom in lieu of a dedicated learning management system. It is being used in at least one of the colleges at a university, but I do not know if it has spread to every college. It is being used in every department. The business problem [it] was chosen to address was the problem of conducting educational activities remotely: neither students nor faculty have been able to go to campus(es) freely, and so all educational activities need to be conducted remotely. Many of the users, both students and professors, are neither technically sophisticated nor experienced with using computerized devices in ways beyond email, popular Web applications, and some Microsoft Office products.
The Google Classroom system is now in its second year of use, and the problems manifested in the first year continue in the second. However, it is not clear whether those problems are inherent in Google Classroom or are products of administrative decisions.
The lone problem it addresses is allowing all people involved in education here to communicate asynchronously with a relatively shallow learning curve, although it currently functions only as a stopgap and cannot function as a long-term solution.
- 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.
- Familiarity of Google interfaces.
- Off-site computing.
- Off-site storage.
32%
3.2
- 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.
Google Classroom was chosen unilaterally for one of my places of work, although I had checked Google Classroom when it was first released and decided against it for my own company owing to its poor reporting and other controls.
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.
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.
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Administrators, instructors, and students use the system. I have experience in the administrator and instructor roles. As a rule, I turn students in the system away from Google Classroom after an initial class and steer them to Moodle, which is better suited for instruction and affords more privacy and security than does Google Classroom. However, I have used Google Classroom as an administrator only rarely. It is possible it could be set up more securely.
5
Basic computer skills and the ability to inform users of basic usage are the only skills required to use Google Classroom.
- 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.
Not Sure
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These are the factors I used to evaluate Google Classroom. I found Google Classroom in only one case in which I was not acting professionally.
I would conduct a thorough review of administrative controls. Google Classroom is attractive because of its being in the cloud and having controls familiar to many people, but in my experience is not a substitute for a real learning management system. I would select most other learning management systems instead of Google Classroom.
- Don't know
- I was not privy to implementation phases.
I was not involved in the purchase decision.
Yes
It was not.
I am unable to describe any time, as I have never got any support from Google for Google Classroom.
- 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.
Yes, but I don't use it
December 10, 2018
Love it
Google Classroom is being used for grades 4-8 at my school. Primarily homework assignments are given through Google Classroom. Grades 4-5 use it for reading journals. Grades 6-8 use it for WebQuests.
As the school librarian and permanent substitute, I use Google Classroom when I am substituting in the upper school. Frequently, it is used for substitutes because the learning outcomes and expectations are made clear with this platform.
As the school librarian and permanent substitute, I use Google Classroom when I am substituting in the upper school. Frequently, it is used for substitutes because the learning outcomes and expectations are made clear with this platform.
- Ease of use (children are able to use it).
- Allows teacher to closely monitor students.
- Eliminates the need to bring home notebooks or books.
- Google Classroom does not integrate the calendar.
- No automatically graded quizzes or tests.
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5.9
- Google Classroom has made grading and assigning projects easier for teachers at my school.
We have used Quizlet. It functions better for for automatic assessment. Google Classroom is better used for longer, in-depth assignments.
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Teachers
2
Our technology coordinator and IT support help to ensure our Chromebooks are working and our WiFi is working, as well. Our technology coordinator helps to set the students up on Google Classroom.
- Students use it for WebQuests.
- Students use it for reading responses.
- Students use it to know what their homework assignments are.
- Google Classroom allows for absent students to keep up with work
- Google Classroom helps our school keep learning going even during snow days.
- Google Classroom keeps parents informed on what is going on in the classroom.
- Google Classroom could be integrated into the younger grades (2 and 3).
- Google Classroom could be uses to keep writing portfolios.