Google Classroom Review

Google Classroom is a cloud-based learning management system that is part of Google Apps for Education. It is only suitable for academic institutions. The solution allows students to access the platform from computers, tablets and smartphones. Users can create Google documents to manage tasks, transfer YouTube videos, and attach files from Google Drive. It allows users to provide feedback via comments on documents. Teachers can create online classrooms to share learning materials for download and view. Online assignments can be created to track student progress. The interconnectivity of Google products like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides allows students to easily submit their assignments. The software is accessible via mobile apps available for iOS and Android.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM – TUTORIAL

Let’s watch the tutorial to find out how to create online streaming video lessons using this training software:

GOOGLE CLASSROOM – FEATURES

• Easily add students: students can sign up for a course using a code, leaving you more time to teach
• Manage multiple courses: reuse existing announcements, assignments or questions in another course. Share posts across multiple courses and archive courses for later reuse
• Collaborate with colleagues: you can teach a class with up to 20 other teachers
• Enrich your assignments: add materials to your assignments, such as YouTube videos, Google Forms polls, PDFs, and other elements from Google Drive. Teachers and students can highlight, write notes and draw on documents and PDFs in the Classroom mobile app
• Create worksheets with one click: attach a worksheet to the assignment and create a copy for each student with a single click
• Customize assignments: add grading categories, due dates, point values ​​and topics to assignments you create
• Individual tasks: the teacher can publish jobs and announcements for individual students of a course
• Prepare in advance: draft announcements, assignments and questions, or schedule them to run at a specific time
• Take quick tests and surveys: post a question to students, then view the results in Classroom
• Customize graphics course: change the default color or theme of your course
• Centralize resources in one place: create a topic for key resources so students can always access materials, such as a reservation sheet for reception hours, a curriculum or online text
• Organize student work: classroom creates a Google calendar for each course and updates it with scheduled jobs and delivery dates. Students can also view the work to be done with a single click
• Customize grading: choose a grading system, create grading categories, and see all grades for a course on the Grades page
• Organize teacher work: review student work, such as past assignments, questions, grades, and comments. View the work of a single course or all courses and sort it by what you need to review
• Assign grades quickly and easily: change the order of students, see who submitted a job, add feedback and provisional grades to share later, or return a graded assignment to all students with a single click. You can also add annotations and visual feedback to student work in the Classroom mobile app
• Transfer grades: export the final grades to Google Sheets or a CSV file that you can upload elsewhere. If you participate in the beta program, you can also submit grades directly from Classroom to the Student Information System (SIS)
• Integrate other favorite learning tools: synchronize existing Classroom courses with partner applications
• Access anytime, anywhere: access Classroom on the web 27/7 or through the Classroom apps for Android and iOS mobile devices
• Keep courses organized: teachers can organize the Course Work page by creating topics in an easily editable order
• Provide feedback in real time: view, comment and edit student work in real time in the Docs Grading Tool. Annotate student work in the Classroom mobile app
• Create discussions in the course: in the course stream you can post announcements, engage students in question-based discussions, encourage them to reply to classmates or move important topics to the beginning of the stream
• Manage discussions in the course: control who can post to the course stream and prevent individual students from adding posts or comments
• Share contents: share links, videos and images on Classroom from any website with a single click using the Share in Classroom extension
• Transfer content to student screens: instantly transfer web pages to a course with the Share to Classroom extension. Students can also share their screen with the teacher
• Communicate with guardians: teachers across all G Suite domains can invite parents and guardians to sign up to receive email summaries showing the student’s future or missing work.