Google Classroom Reviews

I have used the solution as a student and as a teacher. We started using it when COVID-19 started. A teacher can upload courses and send the links to different students. The students can join the classes. I can upload assignments, check them, and give scores. Students can enroll in courses with a specific teacher, see assignments and quizzes, and check their scores.

A teacher can send assignments and upload results using the product. Students can check their results and type in comments if they have any queries. These are valuable features.

The product should provide features that allow teachers to be on video while taking the class. It should be more like Zoom. The class should be similar to a video call. If this feature is added, other platforms like Zoom and Google Meet will lose their edge, and Google Classroom will be on the top.

I have been using the solution for two to three years.

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten.

The solution is scalable. Our organization has about 100 users, including developers, testers, and network designers.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup takes time, but it is easy. It takes around one month to code and deploy the solution.

I am a professional web developer. So, I did not need the help of a consultant to deploy the tool.

The product is free.

We can easily add new modules to the tool. I would recommend the product to others. The solution is useful for teachers. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

My wife used to handle my child's classwork through Google Classroom. Through Google Classroom, my wife used to help my child follow the instructions provided by the teacher while also dealing with the assignments provided through the tool.

There should be some changes in the way Google Classroom allows for interaction by devices. Google Classroom brings an upgrade that can help lessen the burden for children who have to carry books physically to school. In general, Google Classroom should work on its shortcomings in the area of integration so that it can help reduce the burden of children who need to carry books to school.

I have experience with Google Classroom for a year and a half to two years.

It is a stable solution since it is possible to connect with the whole community or a school.

It is not a scalable solution.

There are three users of the product in my house.

Initially, the product's initial setup phase may not seem user-friendly. Over a period of time, users will get to know and become familiar with the product.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The solution can be deployed in not more than fifteen minutes.

I took care of the product's deployment process.

The school paid the charges to operate Google Classroom, and it was included in my child's fees. I did not pay anything to get Google Classroom. My child's school made payments on a subscription-based model to use Google Classroom.

I did not evaluate other products against Google Classroom. I remember that there were some classes that were held on Zoom.

Google Classroom impacted my child's engagement and participation in the virtual classroom. During the time when work from home was prevalent, the engagement on Google Classroom was much more. Right now, in my country, we have a week's holiday due to ongoing election campaigns. Children and parents use Google Classroom only during holidays. Schools don't promote the use of Google Classroom when there are no holidays and prefer to have physical classes.

The feature of Google Classroom that helps manage my child's coursework is the product's ability to be used to deal with assignments.

The most valuable features of the integration can stem from the multimedia classroom facility on any server, along with access to the school library, which is interconnected within Google Classroom since it can help children find books or e-books they want.

The improvements in my child's or wife's outcome since using Google Classroom stem from the fact that the tool has allowed them to be more tech-friendly.

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

I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.

I use the solution for taking online sessions. It was used mostly during the pandemic. We use it for giving assignments and receiving submissions.

The product gives me visibility. I can see the submission times. I can see all the submissions in a central place. It is useful. I'm pretty happy with what I'm getting right now. I’m from an IT background. I am quite comfortable with the user interface. It is a useful tool.

The stability could be improved.

I have been using the solution for the last three years.

The product is pretty much stable. I did not have any issues. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.

The requirement was not for large batches. We had a batch of 30 to 40 students. We are quite happy with the product. There are 30 to 40 students in every class. There are approximately six classrooms in every batch. Currently, we are not using it. It was extensively used during the pandemic.

The setup is fairly straightforward.

The setup took me five minutes. We didn't require support to set up the solution. To set up the solution, we created classrooms for specific classes, the links were sent to the students, and they joined the class. We did not need any technical staff to deploy the product. We were able to figure out things.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

This solution integrates with all the other Google apps including Google Calendar and Google Docs. This makes it very easy to manage. 

It would be useful if this solution had its own online teaching platform with an integration with a Google video conferencing tool. We would also like to have access to a quiz-making or exam-making tool such as that found in Moodle. We would like to be able to create a pool of questions that can be randomly pulled to create different assessments for each student. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. We have 15 to 20 faculty members and 400 students using this solution. 

We have previously used Moodle which is an overall better solution than Google Classroom. However, Moodle does have some limitations including requiring a server and other resources. Google classroom operates using Google Cloud for free and there is no hardware needed.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

Some users of Google Classroom who do not have technical skills may find implementing and using this solution quite challenging. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

We use Google Classroom for better lessons, meetings, communications, and emails.

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

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.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately 10 years.

The stability of Google Classroom is good.

Google Classroom is scalable.

We have approximately 300 people using Google Classroom in my organization.

The support from Google Classroom is very good.

We are using FireFly in parallel with Google Classroom. We compared the two head to head. We had to use Firefly to complement the areas which Google Classroom does not provide, such as the collaboration aspect where the parent is not engaged. Additionally, there's no proper tracking on Google Classroom. Firefly is a good competition for Google Classroom.

The initial setup of Google Classroom is easy.

Google Classroom is a free solution. There is paid version that has more options, the cost is approximately eight dollars per student per month.

Google Classroom is a good start if you are only starting with VLE. It is cheaper, it doesn't cost anything. You can get a free plan which can help you experiment and see what your school needs. Then from there, they can consider the paid version, which can allow you to add on whatever you are missing. However, from what I have seen it is not good for early learning, but much better for high school.

I rate Google Classroom an eight out of ten.

Google Classroom is a learning management system. The features I used most was introducing myself in the main forum and providing assignments to the classroom. It was very good in terms of getting messages out quickly and uploading certain documents that were instrumental for the students' lessons. They were able to receive feedback as well as provide messages to me. If I needed to send a message to a student individually, I was able to do that very easily, and grade whatever assignments they submitted.

I can't address how it improved the organization and this was the only platform I used. I can say that the training and onboarding was simple and seamless.

What I liked most about Google Classroom was that it was very easy to communicate with the students and simple for me to learn even though it was my first time using it. I was able to learn the features very well by navigating through different discussion forums and becoming proficient in using the solutions. Ease of use was the best feature.

Some platforms are for more sophisticated users and may not be easy for novice users to understand or navigate. Ease of use is a very important aspect when teaching young children. If you lose their focus early on, it's very hard to get it back.

The ability to upload certain things instrumental for my class and lessons was also very valuable. Additionally, it was very simple to assign points to the students.

Students are used to having accumulated points and letter grades. Google Classroom should add a feature by which you can toggle in between points and letter grades. Accumulated points mean less than letter grades unless there's a prize or reward for most accumulated points. However, it would be nice if there's a way to toggle between allocating points and allocating grades.

I've used Google Classroom intermittently. The first time I used it was to teach young children for a period of a quarter. It was during a teaching rotation since we were doing everything virtually because of the pandemic and the people that managed the process had been looking at various online and onboarding classroom settings solutions. They decided Google Classroom was the best venue for that. 

I have used Google Classroom for approximately one year.

Google Classroom was reliable in my usage. I did not have any glitches or any issues.

I had a class of approximately 20 students that could use Google Classroom at one time. I never had any problems with my students using the solution, it ran smoothly.

I was using the solution twice a week.

I did not contact the technical support from Google Classroom. I did have a few training modules that were helpful.

I have previously used Microsoft Teams. It was good but Google Classroom was more reliable with fewer glitches and issues.

The organization was the main user of Google Classroom and they would add us (volunteer teachers) onto their platform. I was not involved in the implementation.

I do not think it was difficult for the organization to add me to the solution. We had a training session and they were supportive of any additional questions that we had, especially for people like myself who were using it for the first time. From my experience it was really easy to do. There was an important time when I needed to use Google Earth in one of my classes and it was very easy to do. Additionally, I had to provide Zoom information which was straightforward for the students to access and join me in the classroom.

I had one or two training sessions for approximately an hour each where someone with more experience in Google Classroom went through the features and gave examples on how to do X, Y, and Z. We were able to do a Google search if we had questions about other features we wanted to do and share that amongst each other. It was very easy for a first-time user to become acclimated to it.

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I would highly recommend Google Classroom. It's easy to access and use, which is a very strong feature. I can't emphasize that enough because one of the things I noticed, especially in this pandemic, is that everyone has different levels of expertise. Some people use the platform for the first time while others are gurus - there are ranges. To have a platform whereby those who are experienced and those who are new users are both comfortable with it speaks to the versatility of the platform.

I rate Google Classroom a nine out of ten.

I used Google Classroom to give out unique copies of documents to my students, to provide them with opportunities to respond back to work that they were working on, and to give them grades.

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

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.

Google Classroom only allows for teachers to give out one grade based on work across a larger spectrum of grades. It does have its own limitations in terms of how students see the information. It doesn't allow for folders within the classes, or teachers to group information. What is provided is a list of activities or things that students need to complete.

If Google wants to call it a learning management system, which Google does, it's not. I've used learning management systems that are far greater and better at organizing content, systems, and information than Google is. I work in technology and education and I have a strong basis as to what I'm talking about.

In order for Google to better get into that space, they need to listen to teachers when teachers are willing to give their feedback. I used to comment in the Help Center all the time or provide suggestions to Google on things that I was experiencing or the issues that I was experiencing. The solution is not user-friendly for teachers or students. However, it is user-friendly in terms of it being clean but once you start giving out multiple assessments or multiple assignments, there's no easy way to organize it causing students to get confused.

For a student who's in first grade, who's six years old, for them to use Google Classroom is not going to be something that I would suggest, because they're going to get lost in it. Even somebody who's in fourth grade, which is what I used to teach, fourth graders have a hard time using Google Classroom, because it's difficult for them to keep up with their assignments. If the solution does not have an organizational structure, which it doesn't have, there's no way for you to easily see which assignments have been turned back and why they've been turned back.  I can give back an assignment, but it won't tell the student whether the student needs to turn it back in for a redo, turn it back, or not turn it back in. For example, If I want them to see the comments, or if I want them to see the information, I have to turn it back into them or give it back to them, but I don't want them to turn it back into me. It shows up as something that they need to turn back into me on their end, they think they do need to. It's just a very confusing feature overall.

Google has focused more on the teacher's end rather than what the students see. This could improve. There's not an ability to assign multiple grades. I can grade it, but I would have to give them an overall grade, "Overall, you received a 90." Whereas a lot of schools are doing standards-based grading now. "Overall, you received a 90," doesn't always work anymore. What it should be is, "Overall, on the writing part you received a 90, but on the information, you received a 50 and on this, you receive another mark, and on your writing skills you received this." There should be that aspect of it if you're going to call yourself a learning management system.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately five years.

Google Classroom is reliable. It has been stable in my usage. There are times when it does lag and become slow, but that's if Google is having its own issue. If Google's having an issue and Google Classroom's having an issue, you are out of luck and will not be able to operate. There were a lot of the Amazon AWS issues that we were having throughout this year, that caused some problems in Google Classroom.

Google Classroom is scalable but they need to make significant changes for it to be a leading solution in this marketplace. People are using it because it's convenient to provide individual copies to students, which is amazing. However, there are other platforms that can tap into it, and they're doing it better.

This solution was extensively being used, we were remote working at that time.

Google Classroom supports are difficult to get a hold of. When you provide a feedback item, no one will email you and asks, "Hello, why did you suggest this?"  I would assume that they would want back feedback from teachers that are using their solution but it does not seem to be the case.

We have used other solutions in the past, the school district switched us to Google Classroom. The assigning of unique copies is definitely something that draws teachers to Google Classroom and will continue to draw teachers to Google Classroom. However, now there are other platforms that can tap into the fact that you can assign a unique copy to students through their platform as long as the Google email is attached to it. It's not as unique anymore and there are other learning management systems that do it better.

The hard part of the initial setup is that you have to set up multiple classes for each subject area when you essentially see a student all the time. For example, one student, in fourth grade would have four or five different classes that they need to click into. This aspect of the Google Classroom is fine. However, it's when you are in quarter one and you want all of quarter one's grades together, but you don't want quarter two's grades to go into it. You have to make a new class, have all of your students have to add that class to keep the other class open to allow you to receive the grades from quarter one and still operate quarter two at the same time. It gets confusing for students.

My advice to others is to make sure that you organize correctly. You're going to have to spend a large portion of time organizing and making sure that students know exactly how to use the solution. Set very clear instructions around how you are going to assign work, and how they are going to turn work back in and provide feedback. Those things need to be said ahead of time if Google is not going to fix their permissions.

I rate Google Classroom a seven out of ten.

If you're going to use Google Classroom for creating and giving out unique copies and that's the only use you have for it, then I would rate it as a ten out of ten. If you're going to use it as a learning management system, I would give it a five.  
I kind of split the difference between those two ratings to give it a seven, only because I don't think it does the learning management system well, but it does do unique copies well. There is a need to set parameters around it.

If you're only looking at it from the standpoint of assigning a unique copy to students and giving out information, then Google Classroom is the best. It's the fastest and the easiest way to do it. If you're looking for a learning management system and giving out that unique copy, there are other vendors that are doing it better.

We used the product at our university to facilitate digital learning.

Google Classroom is simple to use. Its most valuable feature is the ability to conduct test and quiz programs.

The product's UI needs improvement. At present, it requires specific knowledge to get familiar with the platform.

I have been using Google Classroom for a year.

The system crashes sometimes. I rate its stability an eight out of ten.

Google Classroom has good scalability. Our university has approximately 1500 to 2000 users.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It took around 15 to 20 minutes to complete.

We can implement the product ourselves.

The product offers a yearly based license.

I rate Google Classroom a seven out of ten. I would not recommend it to others as many other better tools are available.