Google Classroom Reviews

Google Classroom is an online platform where people can meet together.

The most valuable feature of Google Classroom is the ability to meet people and it is online.

Google Classroom could improve by being easier to use. For example, making it functional with only a few buttons. It's difficult to know how to connect with students and make a link and share it with them. I found it difficult, and this is why I didn't continue using it. Additionally, it should be available to be downloaded to the desktop for use, similar to Zoom.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately two years.

I have 150 students in my classroom and they were using Google Classroom.

I did not use technical support.

I previously used Zoom and Microsoft Teams and I used them more than Google Classroom because they are free to use.

There are competitors that offer free solutions, making the price of Google Classroom high.

I rate Google Classroom a six 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.

Google Classroom is used for students.

The most valuable feature of Google Classroom is security.

The user interface of Google Classroom could improve by being more user-friendly.

I have been using Google Classroom for two years.

Google Classroom is a stable solution.

I have four people using Google Classroom at my residence.

I have not contacted support.

We did not need a license to use Google Classroom.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Google Classroom a ten out of ten.

I use Google Classroom for my classes. I use it to receive lecture notes and follow discussions.

What I like about Google Classroom are the video lessons. I enjoy using it because it makes my life easier, for example, I can easily change my class and my lecture notes.

I like Google Classroom the way it is, but an area for improvement could be its dashboard. It could be better.

I've been using Google Classroom for a few years now.

Google Classroom is a stable product.

Google Classroom is a scalable product.

I currently don't have issues with Google Classroom, so I have not contacted their technical support.

I haven't used a different learning management system apart from Google Classroom.

Installing Google Classroom was very easy. It took less than five minutes.

I did the installation of the product myself.

I'm using a free version of Google Classroom, so it's a product I don't pay for.

I use Google Classroom and Google Cloud, but only on mobile.

Google Classroom is for my personal use. I don't own the school and I don't own the training center, so I won't increase the number of users of the product.

I would recommend Google Classroom to other people who want to start using it.

My rating for Google Classroom is eight out of ten.

Our teachers use it to give us assignments. During the lockdown, they also uploaded exams so that we could answer the questions while on camera with Google Meet.

We had about 70 students use this solution in our classroom.

When a teacher uploads material, all students connected to that class will receive the same information at the same time. I have found this to be a valuable feature.

I also like that the material remains in Google Classroom until the teacher removes it.

The UI is user-friendly, and you don't have to have prior experience to use the solution.

I would like to see a master list of documents with folder names so that it is more convenient for students to know whether they have submitted a particular document. At present, you need to go to each classroom to check what you have submitted.

I've been using Google Classroom for more than two years.

It's a stable solution.

The initial setup was straightforward for me as a student using the solution. I was able to understand how to use it in about an hour.

I would rate Google Classroom at eight on a scale from one to ten because it's convenient and easy to use, and you can quickly learn to use it.

We were making improvements to our website. We were working closely with the company that was making our new website. They were putting their ideas on Google Classroom. It was easier to communicate through Google Classroom than through calls. We had meetings in Google Meet.

The product is easy to use. We can do everything we want. It’s basic, and it is nice. We are a small company. We do not need sophisticated solutions. Simple is best.

If we have Google Workspace, we have access to everything, although we don’t need it. We are a small company. The product must provide different plans for different customers so that we can pay for only what we use. Microsoft provides different tools like Microsoft 365 for enterprise, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft 365 Personal.

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

I didn’t have any problem with the tool’s stability. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten. Four to five people from our company use the solution. We have some external users, too.

The initial setup is very, very easy. The deployment took 10 to 15 minutes. The product is cloud-based.

I would recommend the tool to others. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

The solution is used for teaching remotely.

The most valuable feature of Google Classroom is the ability to share my lectures with many students, assign tasks to be completed, and overall student engagement.

It would be helpful to add voice or audio capabilities to the classrooms instead of text only.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately two years.

I have not had any stability issues with Google Classroom.

I have approximately 80 students that have used the solution.

Google Classroom is a scalable solution.

I have not used the support from Google Classroom.

I have not used a similar solution prior to using Google Classroom.

The setup of Google Classroom is simple, you go to the website and downloaded the solution, and use it. It is a simple process and can be done in minutes.

I did the deployment of the solution myself.

The price of Google Classroom has been reasonable.

I would recommend this solution to others. It is a good solution for connecting with students and has many features.

I rate Google Classroom a nine out of ten.