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January 11, 2019
All classrooms should be Google classrooms
- Group collaboration. It has made it extremely easy for all levels of learning to utilize their tools.
- Simple and easy to use no matter what the student’s skill level is.
- Easy to trouble shoot if there is a problem, which there rarely is.
- I have yet to have an issue with Google Classroom.
- I’d like to see a platform with an even more broken down version for younger learners.
- Maybe even add a platform for special education.
January 03, 2019
Create and Collaborate with Google Classroom!
- Google Classroom allows you instant access to student work when using Google products such as Docs and Slides.
- Google Classroom is easy to set up for teacher and student use.
- Google Classroom offers several access points, either through URL website link, app, or apps launcher within Google Drive.
- Google Classroom allows you to attach additional files, links, etc. to assignments.
- Students can use Google Classroom to reply to other classmates' posts.
- Google Classroom is NOT an LMS, although some schools/districts try to mold it in that fashion. It does not include robust features of an LMS.
- Google Classroom provides a grade book, but that grade book does not sync with all district's grade book, so you will have to manually transfer any grades received.
- It would be great to see Google Classroom offer a closed-captioned option for any uploaded videos shared on the site.
December 10, 2018
Love it
- 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.
- Helps teachers communicate with entire classes
- Helps teachers communicate with specific groups of students
- Allows me to schedule posts for future dates and times
- Allowing me to edit a post and while editing, add another class to post it into.
- Allow students to edit work that has been turned in, without "un" turning it in
January 09, 2018
Google Classroom has revolutionized the way I teach!
- Google classroom keeps all student documents organized.
- You can send students tests and quizzes through this site.
- You can give students direct feedback.
- This only works if there is internet connectivity.
- If you don't have a classroom lab, you probably can't integrate it into the school day.
- Students may not have computers at home to continue working on material.
- Has great integration with the Google suite of programs such as Google Calendar and Drive.
- Mobile platform makes for easy upload of photos.
- Allows for collaboration in a classroom setting, be it with one student and teacher or multiple students.
- A better discussion board ability would be useful.
- Ability to have editing permission for documents where "Make a Copy for Each Student" is utilized.
- Ability to drag and drop items to show on Home Screen would be useful.
April 18, 2017
The Google Classroom Report
- Google Classroom gives you the ability to differentiate work by groups. For example, you could post assignments for the entire class or for a specific group of students.
- With Google Classroom, parents can sign up to receive information about their child's progress on assignments. This includes any assignments that were missing or late.
- Google Forms does a great job of visually displaying information from surveys; I would like to see something like that for Google Classroom. I think this would be helpful, specifically, when pulling up students overall points to conference with them.
April 13, 2017
Google Classroom: in a class by itself
- It organizes assignments in one easy place for students to see.
- Google Classroom enables students and parents to see announcements and reminders.
- Google Classroom enables students to access assignments from home, printing out handouts and worksheets, and also see links to important classroom materials.
- The learning curve to understand basics of Google Classroom is small, but the learning curve to understand more detailed features takes considerable time.
April 11, 2017
Google Classroom Review
- Allows safe digital communication between the student and teacher
- Allows for digital classroom discussions
- Keeps assignments organized
- I think it is very user friendly
- Students can access it easily, no complaints
- Teachers like it, no complaints except from teachers who have difficulty with technology
- Post Assignments: As a Google school with Chromebooks, classroom is by far the easiest and simplest way for faculty to post and receive assignments using Google Docs.
- Quizzes: With built-in integrations with Google Forms, quizzes are easy to build and grade.
- Building classes: Making a class is simple, and it is a great way to communicate directly with the students.
- Grading: Since Google isn't really a Student Information System, grading has to be transposed into another system after they are done in Google Classroom.
- Building Classes: Although building a class is simple, it isn't automatic. Once again, the lack of Student Information System integration means more direct work for our faculty.
- Forums and open discussion features would be a big improvement.
April 05, 2017
Google Classroom Making a Teacher's Life Easier
- It allows for teachers to post assignments online and students can check what the assignment is even when they are not at school.
- A teacher can see at a glance who has not turned in their work.
- The teacher can grade the work and put the grade online for the student to view.
- Email can also be sent to parents to notify them of information they might need.
- It would be nice if you could place the classes in a specific order rather than the order in which you entered them. This may be possible, but I have not found a way to change the list as I am viewing it from the Google Classroom list page.
- Our school uses RenWeb as a school and it might be nice to have the ability to add the grades to RenWeb in addition to copying them to Google Sheets.
March 14, 2017
Google Classroom Review
- Assignments
- Blogs
- Organization
- Videos
- A way to make more fun
May 16, 2016
Google Classroom = Stress Free Teacher Life!
- I can organize individual assignments in a stream, similar to Facebook, and pin the assignments that are a priority to the top of this stream.
- It eliminates the, "I lost my homework" statements from students. They will always have the assignment, whether it is an essay, workhseet, documents to view, images, videos, etc.
- Google Classroom allows for an easy stream of communication about an assignment between the teacher and the students. I create a master assignment that I then push out to all students in Google Classroom. This allows me to pop into their work and see their progress and make comments as they are progressing.
- Google Classroom would be greately improved if a drop down menu was added that allowed assignments to be grouped under teacher created Units. Currently assignements are dispalyed in one long chronological stream.
- Google Classroom works great on a computer but the iPad app has missing functionality. For example, you can not sort students alphabetically on the iPad like you can on a computer.
- Currently, Google Classroom only shows the assignment as submitted late in the assignment feed. It would be greatly improved if it also included the date submitted.
May 04, 2016
Basic
- Collaborations and editing student assignments. It enables real time feedback.
- Provide links to research based ideas. Students can quickly click on a link and access information.
- Student to student collaboration.
May 03, 2016
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.
- Hyperlinks: Instead of asking kids to type in long urls, we can hyperlink websites right into their document. This cuts down on time and saves us from lots of possible confusion/mistakes.
- Calendar function: This function helps kids visually keep track of due dates for all their assignments.
- Make a copy: I love the GC makes a copy for each student instead of asking them to do it themselves, this way all the naming protocols are the same and documents can be found easily.
- Parent Portal: So many of my parents request parent access but at this time I can only tell them to sign in under their child's account.
- Tracking more than completion: As students become familiar with classroom they realize they can submit work without doing it, I would love a feature that checks for edits or work completion before allowing submission.
- Edit posted assignments: It is hard to make edits to documents once you have posted the assignments.
March 22, 2016
Google Classroom for all your Teaching needs
- I like the freedom that I have with google classroom to assign a blank document to all students or to send them a table to fill out.
- I also like that there are other applications that connect with google classroom to grade assignments and give the students scores that they can access as needed.
- It lets me add students without having to send them an email invite and they can get my feedback without the email.
- Google classroom could improve by making a location for a collected grade book so that I do not have to go back to each assignment and find the grades.
- There are some functional pieces that are missing but they are not impacting the work flow.
- I wish it would mark an assignment complete when they submit with out them having to go back and hit complete.
March 01, 2016
Google Classroom, LMS prep
- Prepares students for college level LMS interfaces.
- Office productivity tools are a great alternative to MS Office.
- Media add-ins, and classroom webspace.
- iPad app struggles at times.
- Can be overwhelming for those transitioning students.
- Ownership of assignments once distributed to students.
September 25, 2015
Google Classroom - A continuum of progress
- It allows for class-specific log of work done. In other words, all my notes and discussion questions can be posted, so students can use the classroom to study for tests or review ideas presented in class.
- Working on a cloud-based platform eliminates excuses for adolescents. I can track every keystroke (just call me Mr. Big Brother). Their essays, then, are complete stories of their work. I can tell which students went through the writing process and which ones wrote something last minute despite some of the built in formative revisions we do in class.
- It takes a little bit of time, but once you start merging and/or creating your teaching documents through Google, uploading and sharing the documents is fast and reliable. While Google Docs and Sheets may not have all the functionality that Microsoft Office provides, it is more than enough to fit my needs. Also, the variety of Google Apps gives you the freedom to create unique or interesting assignments to post on the Classroom, such as Google Forms.
- Honestly, the best part for me is knowing that this is a project that is continuously improved multiple times per year. When I came back to work this year, I found new features, which really streamlined the process and lessened the issue of when I have the same post but to different sections of classes.
- I believe they could include certain modules, like reliable Plagiarism checkers or grammar analysis (like Turnitin.com does). Yes, you can download add-ons, but I'm always weary of their performance.
- My second point is knowingly ignorant but important to note anyhow: most of my time spent teaching is actually spent on grading essays. Google Classroom helps by assigning names to the documents, but I'd really love some improvements, such as a click-to-comment feature where I can just click on the word or area of the essay I'm talking about and a comment box automatically pops up. I'd also love to have a repeated comment bank where I can select commonly used comments instead of individually typing them.
September 23, 2015
Google Classroom as a Learning Management System (LMS).
- Easy to collect assignments.
- Structuring online courses.
- Collaboration using other Google apps, like Google Docs.
- We want it to be a complete Learning Management System that can rival Blackboard.
- We want more functionality to enable school administrators offer online courses.
- We want functionality that will enable us to enroll students and monitor them as well, like transcripts, and other functions of the school.
- Delivery of material to users through Google drive, all documents, sheets, and slides are compatible with Microsoft if downloaded.
- Any document shared through Google Classroom can be a shared working document for collaborative purposes where users can live chat and edit within the document, or copies can be made for each individual if things need to be kept private.
- The grade exporting system on CSV documents is seamless and allows for me to grade student work and effortlessly transfer those grades to our gradebook software.
- Google Classroom is entirely mobile! I do not have to be at my computer! I can access anything I need via my iPhone or iPad, as well.
- There is no way to disable the chat feature within a shared document, which can pose potential issues within a school setting where students may create a new document and share among other students for non-academic purposes.
September 17, 2015
Why Google Classroom is the way forward in education.
- Google Classroom is a great tool for students to submit papers electronically. I think this is probably Classroom's biggest strength, as well as the integration of the documents being submitted via Classroom with your linked Google Drive account.
- Google Classroom is also very helpful in making important information available to students. Posting videos and articles that are relevant to our topic that are extra pieces of information for those students who are interested.
- Google Classroom is a great tool for supporting students with extra needs. It allows teachers to post presentations and extra support for students to access at their own individual pace. It's also helpful for students who were absent for a particular class because they can catch up on information that they missed.
- Google Classroom could be improved in its interface when grading student work. It is not user-friendly if you are also transferring grades into another gradebook program.
- Another area that Classroom can be improved is in notifying students that graded work has been returned. Many of my students frequently tell me that they have no idea that I have graded and returned their work.
September 15, 2015
Going Google - Drive or Classroom
- Google Classroom allows you to easily see who has turned in work.
- Google Classroom allows you to quickly access and comment on documents.
- Google Classroom allows you to easily locate a document, see what students are working on and give comments in real time.
- Google Classroom should really allow users to upload entire folders of work, not just single documents.
- With younger users, the ability to change font / size / color in the directions would be quite helpful.