About Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a cloud-based learning management system that is a part of Google Apps for Education. It is suitable for academic institutions only. Google Classroom enable students to access the platform from computers, tablets and smartphones. Users can create Google Docs to manage assignments, port YouTube videos and attach files from Google Drive. It enables users to provide feedback through comments on the documents. Teachers can create online classrooms for sharing the learning materials for downloading and viewing. Online assignments can be created to keep the track of students’ progress. The interconnectivity of Google products such as Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets and Google Slides allows students to submit their assignments easily. Google Classroom can be accessed via mobile apps available for iOS and Android.
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Google Classroom pricing

Google Classroom has a free version.

Starting Price:
Not provided by vendor
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
No

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Google Classroom Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.7
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Support
4.4
5 reviews of 2,367 View all reviews
SM Iftekhar
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 03/09/2021

A great platform for managing online education system..

Overall, I love to use this software as my daily driver. It saves my time & helps me to manage my studies in this pandemic effectively.

Pros

This software has almost everything that is required to conduct the course online. Our faculties can do Assigning courses, assignments, quizzes, share their class notes & attachments easily on this software. It has a great notification system for smartphones thus student doesn't miss out any important topic. It can also integrate many features from google service & our lecturer love this media more than other available alternatives. It has a clean UI & I love it personally.

Cons

I don't find any cons for this software. But the software would be self-sufficient if it integrates a group calling feature for conducting classes like the Microsoft team.

Shilpa
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 03/08/2023

Google Classroom- No constraint in Learning

Google Classroom helps to collaborate teachers & Students in the most crucial situation like COVID. It is most used medium for education and most importantly it is available at free of cost

Pros

It helps to collaborate with people from anywhere through the internet. It is cloud based LMS solution so I use classroom without installing any dedicated application on my mobile. It is integrated with Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides. And Gdrive provide dedicated folder for Classroom where the files are store so it helps me to find the files easily.

Cons

Initially when large number of people joins the meeting, the application becomes unresponsive & it lags.

Robin
  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
1

3
Reviewed on 15/04/2021

Google Classroom Lacks Many Features

In a pinch, with online learning during the pandemic, Google Classroom has given us a way to communicate with students and assign/collect student work. It is relatively easy to learn to use given time to adjust to this type of platform. However, there are features that it lacks - grade transfer to grading programs, ease of duplicating AND scheduling work at the same time for multiple classes to name a couple.

Pros

It is relatively easy to set up a class and invite students to join. You will likely need to watch a tutorial first, but after that, it is pretty straightforward. I like that it time-stamps submitted work. you know exactly the time a student turned something in.

The ability to ask a simple multiple-choice question (I only gave the option of one answer - the word "here:)makes it easy to have students check-in for attendance purposes.

Cons

There is no easy way to transfer scores from Google Classroom to our grading system. There are no built-in comments when responding to student work. You cannot create assignments that can be both scheduled and added to multiple classes at the same time. For example, I have 3 sections of Geometry. I have to create an assignment and schedule for one class, then share and redo the scheduling for each of the other 2 classes. There is no way to hide old assignments so that students can't go back several weeks and try to submit old/late work, particularly at the end of each marking period.

I don't like the fact that many educators have already asked for some of the features I feel are lacking, and yet updates have not been made.

Andrew
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 01/06/2023

First Place I tell students to go.

Overall I really enjoy using Google Classroom. Rather than having to maintain a website where students from a variety of class go to then have to navigate their way to info I want them to have, with Google Classroom everything is tailored to the class students are enrolled in and I don't have to worry about turning on and off the visibility of items each marking period.

Pros

Google Classroom has replaced my teacher website, my homework help page, and even the "what did I miss" file folder in my classroom. I can get any information to students I need to via the stream, all classwork is published in that section, so they have access to and they know to look there if they missed days to find any work. Its integration with Google Meets means even if a student is absent they have an easy way to participate virtually.

Cons

There are still some bugs with the SIS Export in the Gradebook, but they are getting better each year. Currently scores export, but aren't categorized correctly which is a small annoyance, but an easy fix.

Sri Sainath Reddy
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 27/08/2023

Google Classroom : An easy tool for effective learning.

Google Classroom helps in improving Educational Collaboration, Efficiency, and Participation.

Pros

Google Classroom is useful for global or online education since it allows both instructors and pupils to engage with one another. The greatest benefit is the fact it is flawlessly synced with all of Google Workspace's other productive programmes such as calendar, Gmail, and so on.

Cons

There is nothing to dislike regarding this platform, except that its file uploading feature frequently take longer time. Nonetheless, I had a positive experience as a whole using Google Classroom.

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