Google Classroom.Classroom has under one roof every tool the teacher will need to create a meaningful and engaging task, without having to learn multiple interfaces or do any complex shuffling around of files that only a school’s tech enthusiast usually battles through. Teachers are able to easily communicate with classes by using Classroom to make announcements, without the need to email groups or individual messages. Classroom is going to have an impact beyond what it does for the assessments because of the ease of access. This is because it’s delivered through the Chrome browser rather than an app and is thus totally device-agnostic. Students can use it on their phones, the $50 Android tablet they got for Christmas, Chromebook, anything. One of its greatest features is its usability. Google Classrooms offers every tool teachers need to create a task. Teachers can easily add links, or attach files. Then every task goes to a student’s Classroom folder in Drive, their Calendar, and their Gmail. Students can see what they’ve been assigned and teachers can see what’s been submitted. Both student and teacher can comment and improve in real time.
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There are two ways that Google Classroom makes your classroom more efficent
1) Distributing & Collecting Assignments
With Google Classroom, everything is in one centralized location. Students can view all of their assignments in a specific folder, teachers can store their materials and activities for the school year on the cloud and all grades can be viewed within Classroom.
2) Revisions & Feedback
In the Google Classroom, assignments are distributed to students and when they are ready, they submit them back to the teacher. Students can not revise their document further until it has been seen by the teacher. This prevents students from trying to meet the deadline by submitting incomplete assignments.
Students can then submit the assignment again and again after each teacher revision. All of this is tracked with a student assignment “feed” that keeps things orderly. The assignment also has a space that teachers can message students privately and students can then respond.