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Google Classroom pros and cons

Vendor: Google

4.1 out of 5

24 reviews
96% willing to recommend

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Head of Educational Technology and Innovation Department Experience at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

Mar 25, 2022

Company-wise, the most important feature is that it is a product of Google. It is a part of Google Suite. With Google Classroom, you can easily embed a Google Sheet, Google Doc, or Google Form. You can easily create a quiz in Google Form. It is integrated with Google Drive. So, everything is on Google Drive, and you can easily use it. With single sign-on, you can use it with Google Apps as well.

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Client Experience Partner at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Mar 16, 2022

Assigning a unique copy of Google Classroom to students and giving out information is what the solution excels at.

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Director of innovation at AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Mar 29, 2022

I like that Google Classroom is free and integrates with the entire Google Suite, which includes Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, etc. I also like its flexibility, which makes it perfect for synchronous, asynchronous, and blended courses, and including live and archived webinars, as well as other kinds of content.

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CEO and co-founder at EDW International

Jun 1, 2023

I would rate the initial setup a nine out of ten. It is very straightforward.

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MR

Finance Manager at a government

Apr 4, 2022

What I liked most about Google Classroom is it was very easy to communicate with the students and simple for me to learn even though it was the first time I was using it. I was able to learn the features very well by navigating through the different discussions forums and becoming proficient, not necessarily a master but knowledgeable in using the solution. The ease of use was the best feature.

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English Teacher at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 22, 2023

I find Jamboard to be a great tool for supporting classroom activities.

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IT Manager at Pipers Corner School

Nov 13, 2023

Google Classroom is easy to use and intuitive, and it's not difficult to set up.

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ZB

Regional Manager

Feb 5, 2024

The product's UI is good and user-friendly.

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Student at Queens University Belfast

Jan 8, 2024

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

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Gilbert Mwiinga

Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College

Aug 11, 2022

The most valuable features of Google Classroom are the meetings, mark book, and assignments.

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Head of Educational Technology and Innovation Department Experience at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

Mar 25, 2022

There are some websites where you can create activities and guide students to do them in a sequence. You can guide them to do an activity first and then go to the next one. You can automatically link activities, and there is a flow, but in Google Classroom, you don't have that feature. All you can do is put the material and tell students what to do. For example, I have an assignment, but I want my students to read a particular text before that. They need to tick it, or they need to click next before they start doing the activity. After that, I want them to do comprehension questions or something else. In Moodle, there are activities such as assignments, quizzes, etc. There is a lesson module in which you can put all of the activities in a flow. So, you can decide what they need to do first. If students answer a question incorrectly, you can decide and design to which page do they need to go next, and which part do they need to review. This is currently missing in Google Classroom.

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Client Experience Partner at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Mar 16, 2022

There are a lot of things that need to be fixed in order for it to be called a learning management system. I think that's where a lot of people are very confused in terms of what Google Classroom actually does. Google Classroom is not a learning management system. A learning management system allows teachers to grade with authenticity and doesn't provide only one grade for a particular document or assignment.

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Director of innovation at AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Mar 29, 2022

I would like to see a better user experience, a more engaging interface, and more templates. Google should develop templates or at least encourage developers to share them. You'll only get a basic framework when you create a new course. You don't have different themes to choose from like you do in Moodle.

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CEO and co-founder at EDW International

Jun 1, 2023

There's room for improvement in the offline functionality. When you're working with a class, you can't close the class or perform certain tasks when you're offline.

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MR

Finance Manager at a government

Apr 4, 2022

Students used to have points that were accumulated and the letter grades, such as A's, B's, C's, et cetera. Google Classroom should add a feature by which you can toggle in between both of them. It's more than only accumulated points, which are not going to mean that much for students unless there's a prize at the end or some type of reward for the effort. However, if there's a way to toggle in between allocating points versus allocating a grade, it would be nice.

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English Teacher at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 22, 2023

There are certain things that I can do on PowerPoint that I cannot do on Google Presentations and Google Slides, such as using PowerPoint's animation feature, I have found that PowerPoint is generally more feature-rich and offers a wider range of tools that I can use to prepare and enhance my presentations.

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IT Manager at Pipers Corner School

Nov 13, 2023

There can often be language barriers when you're not dealing with local technical support, which can be challenging.

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ZB

Regional Manager

Feb 5, 2024

Initially, the product's initial setup phase may not seem user-friendly.

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Student at Queens University Belfast

Jan 8, 2024

The stability of the product is an area with certain flaws where improvements are required.

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Gilbert Mwiinga

Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College

Aug 11, 2022

We found that Google Classroom is it is missing a lot in current engagement. We know it has got guardian access, where it sends the reports to the guardian at the end of either the week or the month, depending on how you set it. However, it lacks collaboration between the teacher, student, and parents. The engagement is mostly between the student and the teacher. If you have a school similar to ours, where you're dealing with little children where the parent is supposed to be engaged, you need a system that can engage them as well. It's good for senior students, but not for our students.

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