Great overall tool for in-house collaboration
February 26, 2019

Great overall tool for in-house collaboration

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Classroom

Google Classroom is used as a collaborative learning environment for our students, teaching staff and technology professionals. We use it to communicate, share and store but also as a main (linking) connection hub for many applications we use on a daily basis.
  • It has an easy to use format with its intuitive, well thought out and tested design.
  • It follows the same patterns and expected flow of similar Google products.
  • Google Classroom is very inclusive and easily integrated into your current work patterns.
  • Google Classroom is so secure that it is actually an issue. Allowing "outside" collaboration is not easy to do and requires a great deal of work on IT's end to allow it to pass through. We have had a lot of trouble with this and can say that the difficulty is so great that it could be a reason we would choose a different solution in the future since collaboration is so important to our students success.
  • The value Google Classroom has added to our experience is an enhancement of the "how" to the "what". Through collaborative learning, which is what Google Classroom allows us to do, is another way we can provide educational enrichment to students.
  • Google Classroom also enables us to reach more of our inclusive goals by making it easier to provide content in a way that is standardized and open to all.
We have used other products in conjunction with Google Classroom (Schoology, Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Office 365 etc.) but none of these are the same as Google Classroom. Some of these offer some of the features the Google Classroom does, but none offer all of the features, nor does Google Classroom offer enough to be considered a full LMS per se.
For inclusive situations, where outside collaboration is not a huge focus, Google Classroom has a large set of great tools. It stays current, and the updates are inline, if not ahead, of the market for this type of product. Our users are always pleased with their usability and very rarely find frustration with the product.

Google Classroom Feature Ratings

Course authoring
Not Rated
Course catalog or library
6
Player/Portal
Not Rated
Learning content
8
Mobile friendly
10
Progress tracking & certifications
6
Assignments
8
Compliance management
10
Learning administration
10
Learning reporting & analytics
10
Social learning
10