Enhancing Practice With Google Classroom
January 22, 2019
Enhancing Practice With Google Classroom
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Classroom
Google Classroom is used in our school as a preference by teachers. There is no requirement to use it. Teachers make the choice to use it or not. Google Classroom is used to enhance and assist in organizing classroom management. It is a vehicle that is used to supplement Google Drive and seamlessly work between Drive and Classroom. In assisting with classroom management and assignments, Google Classroom allows for communicating and collaborating with students to build their skills with feedback.
- Announcements: this is an easy and precise way to convey assignments, reminders, and information to students in a class.
- Connection to Calendar: the use of the calendar gives students a quick and direct way to know what is going on in the class, when assignments are due and other important due dates.
- To Do List feature: again, this is a great way to give students access to what is happening in the class and gives teachers a way to organize the class and/or their lessons.
- Loading students into a class can become cumbersome; it relies on downloading a CSV file and then uploading that---requiring a strong knowledge of how to do that.
- For someone new to using something like this, looking at the site initially may make them feel overwhelmed by all the information available.
- Although there is good information within the help center, it is difficult to find a way to contact someone directly, like a chat feature for example.
- Adding structure and information to classrooms
- Giving students access to class information, documents, and giving them a support structure.
- Gives teachers a powerful tool to use in managing and enhancing a classroom for students