Google Classroom

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Google Classroom

What is Classroom?

It is a free online classroom service from Google that you can use via website or application for all the major platforms (IOS, OS, Windows, android). This allows you to create a classroom and invite via email or invite link / code to almost anyone of your choice as long as the email they try to use is not an institutional one that does not match the creator’s domain. You can create meetings, assign homework and activities, keep track of grades, upload documents and resources as well as assign tests. This also implements other Google services such as meet, forms, etc. 

Entering Google Classroom is really easy, you only need an email to gain access to the classroom, then you can either use the website or the application once downloaded to enter the virtual classroom.  Your students will only need an e-mail as well.

Why it's perfect for teachers

This application is designed for online teaching and recordkeeping for teachers, so you can use this in a variety of ways. Most of them are aimed towards teaching and ease-of-access for teachers. 

If you do daily activities, you can use those as the attendance. 

You can create an “English” classroom where you can upload entire lessons, complimentary video links, additional resources such as digital texts, blogs or websites to aid the students in their learning (you can create units, and topics to distinguish the resources). You can also add an activity to be done every X (day,week, etc.) and a test at the end of a period to make sure the learning is adequate and where are they struggling and each one's' strengths. Additionally, it organizes everything neatly for an easier grading experience when you have a rather large class.

Pros:

• It is free 
• It is multiplatform
• Many students already use 
• pretty intuitive 
• implements other google services
• Made for online setting 

Cons: 

• If it’s a school email, everyone has to have the same domain (email ending). 
• If it’s not a school email, you can’t use school domains to enter 
• Lacks many features but makes up for it with additional Google services 

Link

https://classroom.google.com/